The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room [Paperback]

Rainn Wilson’s memoir about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and life 
 
For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers ofThe Officefell in love with the character and grew to love the actor who played him even more. Rainn founded a website and media company, SoulPancake, that eventually became a bestselling book of the same name. He also started a hilarious Twitter feed (sample tweet: “I'm not on Facebook” is the new “I don't even own a TV”) that now has more than four million followers.
 
Now, he's ready to tell his own story and explain how he came up with his incredibly unique sense of humor and perspective on life. He explains how he grew up “bone-numbingly nerdy before there was even a modicum of cool attached to the word.”The Bassoon Kingchronicles his journey from nerd to drama geek (“the highest rung on the vast, pimply ladder of high school losers”), his years of mild debauchery and struggles as a young actor in New York, his many adventures and insights aboutThe Office, and finally, Wilson's achievement of success and satisfaction, both in his career and spiritually, reconnecting with the artistic and creative values of the Bahá’í faith he grew up in. Quirky, witty, literate.
—The Washington Post

Rainn Wilson's memoir captures the essence of his offbeat humor.
—Chicago Sun-Times

“Wilson defies the typical tropes of celebrity memoir. At points,The Bassoon King’s episodes read with the comparably startling, surreal and yet downright endearing outrageousness of an Augusten Burroughs or even David Sedaris essay. . . . Wilson’s memoir details what it’s like for a regular human, a relatable human, a nerd to become famlC˜