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A.V. Club was founded in 1995 as the arts-and-entertainment arm of the satirical newspaper and website The Onion. The two brands quickly became distinct from each other, with The Onion providing humor and America's finest news, and the A.V. Club becoming a significant, well-received source for pop culture news and commentary. In recent years, the A.V. Club's web presence has become huge, attracting over a million unique users per month who visit for reviews, interviews, listings, and features on film, television, music, books, and more. Inventory will enjoy contributions from the entire A.V. Club staff, but the primary staff members assigned to the book project are... Read full bio

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My Year of Flops will be released on October 19, 2010 in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook
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Onion AV Club, August 26, 2010
...A- av club rating Frank Conroy is one of the few novelists as famed for his administrative work as his literary output. His memoir Stop-Time remains venerated as a classic portrait of American youth, but his stewardship of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop...
Onion AV Club, August 25, 2010
...process stories in the age of the Internet and constant information flow. If you’re here reading The A.V. Club, odds are that you keep an eye on the Newswire, so you’ve seen items about casting developments, advance footage, and script leaks. A few...
Onion AV Club, August 20, 2010
...Newswire Gary Kurtz outlines original, darker, Ewok-less ending for Return Of The Jedi The A.V. Club Blog When Juggalos attack: A firsthand account of the Tila Tequila incident at the Gathering Of The Juggalos Review Monument Ave. feature 2010 TV...
Onion AV Club, August 18, 2010
...Newswire Gary Kurtz outlines original, darker, Ewok-less ending for Return Of The Jedi Review Monument Ave. The A.V. Club Blog When Juggalos attack: A firsthand account of the Tila Tequila incident at the Gathering Of The Juggalos TV Club "Hell...
Onion AV Club, August 16, 2010
...these days, I heard about it on Twitter first, and then I read about it here at The A.V. Club in Keith Phipps’ write-up. I’d never heard of Chilton before then. I’d heard of Big Star, but in that way you can hear about something repeatedly...
Onion AV Club, August 16, 2010
...later, Jaws, and its high-pitched intensity signaled the obsessions Dante would revisit in the years to come. The A.V. Club sat down with Dante at Comic Con to discuss what it was like working with Corman, the problem with studios converting films to...
Onion AV Club, August 16, 2010
...later, Jaws, and its high-pitched intensity signaled the obsessions Dante would revisit in the years to come. The A.V. Club sat down with Dante at Comic Con to discuss what it was like working with Corman, the problem with studios converting films to...
Onion AV Club, August 12, 2010
...More Box Of Paperbacks Book Club A couple of years ago, A.V. Club editor Keith Phipps purchased a large box containing more than 75 vintage science-fiction, crime, and adventure paperbacks. He is reading all of them. This is book number 75...
Onion AV Club, August 8, 2010
...debut effort, Ghostwritten. He went on to write thematically daring, structurally complex works like number9dream; this month’s A.V. Club Wrapped Up In Books selection, Cloud Atlas; and the semi-autobiographical Black Swan Green. His latest, The...
Onion AV Club, August 6, 2010
...former bandmates, with whom he remains on frigid terms). Shortly before the tour began, Wareham talked to The A.V. Club about not getting his old band back together, the difficult of writing 12 good songs, and discovering an unreleased Velvet Underground...
Onion AV Club, July 23, 2010
...unearthed them again at the insistence of friends, and started working on the newly released Radiant Child. The A.V. Club recently caught up with Davis to talk about the film, her relationship with Basquiat, Adam Sandler’s love of hurting children, and...
Onion AV Club, July 22, 2010
...More Box Of Paperbacks Book Club A couple of years ago, A.V. Club editor Keith Phipps purchased a large box containing more than 75 vintage science-fiction, crime, and adventure paperbacks. He is reading all of them. This is book number 75...
Onion AV Club, July 15, 2010
...Article Tools Facebook Digg StumbleUpon Reddit Email ThisPrint This $("#tools .email .open").click(function()}); $("#tools .email #emtf .close").click(function()}); $("#tools #emtf .submit").click(function()}, function(data)} ); return false; });...
Onion AV Club, July 14, 2010
...Article Tools Facebook Digg StumbleUpon Reddit Email ThisPrint This $("#tools .email .open").click(function()}); $("#tools .email #emtf .close").click(function()}); $("#tools #emtf .submit").click(function()}, function(data)} ); return false; });...
Paste Magazine, July 6, 2010
...his rarest and most-valuable memorabilia in the third edition of The Great Ellison Book Purge, The Onion’s A.V. Club reports. The former writer for sci-fi shows like The Outer Limits, Star Trek and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour is selling rare autographed...
Onion AV Club, June 29, 2010
...C- av club rating Director: Taylor Hackford Cast: Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci, Sergio Peris-Mencheta Rated: R Running time: 117 minutes Distributor: E1 Entertainment During a groaningly meta moment in Love Ranch, starring Joe Pesci and Helen Mirren as the...
Sys-Con Media, June 24, 2010
...24 /PRNewswire/ -- Onion, Inc., publisher of the satirical newspaper The Onion and its pop-culture-focused sister publication The A.V. Club, has entered a new partnership with The Chicago Tribune Media Group , which calls for the Tribune to run the...
The Onion AV Club, June 23, 2010
...as she pursues an liberating affair with her son?s friend and business partner. Swinton recently spoke to The A.V. Club about working with friends, being lazy, and not really having a method to her madness. The A.V. Club: You?ve told a story in the past...
The Onion AV Club, June 18, 2010
...More Box Of Paperbacks Book Club A couple of years ago, A.V. Club editor Keith Phipps purchased a large box containing more than 75 vintage science-fiction, crime, and adventure paperbacks. He is reading all of them. This is book number 73...
The Onion AV Club, June 15, 2010
...Post sports columnist and talk radio host Jim Armstrong was getting his laptop fixed when he answered The A.V. Club’s phone call. As a guitar is to a guitarist, the laptop is a crucial piece of the 21st century sports writer’s arsenal and needs to be...
Salon, June 13, 2010
...says Stephen Thompson, a music editor at NPR and the founder of the Onion's pop-culture twin, the A.V. Club. Demento encouraged listeners to send in their own songs, with unsurprisingly mixed results. But among them were the nascent stylings of one...
Centre Daily Times, June 4, 2010
...Miller' with exhaustive episode recaps," remembers Noel Murray, who writes recaps of "Lost" for the Onion's A.V. Club. "It was initially this fannish impulse to for posterity."The recap as we know it, however, started with critics like Sepinwall and...
The Onion AV Club, June 2, 2010
...of Conan O?Brien, for whom Watts is opening the Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television Tour. The A.V. Club caught up with Watts on the tour?s Dallas stop for a chat about communicating with chaos and how he goes about the business of...
Chicago Tribune, May 29, 2010
...Miller' with exhaustive episode recaps," remembers Noel Murray, who writes recaps of "Lost" for the Onion's A.V. Club. "It was initially this fannish impulse to document for posterity." The recap as we know it, however, started with critics like...
NPR, May 28, 2010
...in Brooklyn. He is the managing editor of Jossip Initiatives and his work has appeared in Filter, The A.V. Club, MTV, The Root and National Geographic. Three Books ... is produced and edited by Ellen Silva and Bridget Bentz...
Examiner.com, May 17, 2010
...film Easier With Practice, which won the Grand Jury Prize at last year's CineVegas Film Festival. The A.V. Club has more on this story...
The Onion AV Club, May 13, 2010
...More Box Of Paperbacks Book Club A couple of years ago, A.V. Club editor Keith Phipps purchased a large box containing more than 75 vintage science-fiction, crime, and adventure paperbacks. He is reading all of them. This is book number 72...
The Onion AV Club, May 6, 2010
...[Click play before reading on] Dearest AV Club Readers: This will be the last pop culture love letter for a while, because I am leaving to pursue a new, humbling, and exciting opportunity and The Hater blog and column will be going on hiatus. In case the...
The Onion AV Club, April 30, 2010
...novel Riddley Walker, the subject of . Via phone from his home in London, Hoban recently spoke with The A.V. Club about the process of writing Riddley Walker, why he?s drawn to mythological figures, and his advice for new writers. The A.V. Club: In the...
The Onion AV Club, April 29, 2010
...C av club rating Director: Patrick Hoelck Cast: Scott Caan, Wendy Glenn, James Caan Rated: R Running time: 89 minutes It’s never an encouraging sign when a film feels the need to broadcast a lead’s more admirable qualities as if the audience...
Chicago Tribune, April 15, 2010
...panels include a discussion of the evolving role of superheroes in contemporary society (led by The Onion's A.V. Club), a premiere of the BBC's latest "Dr. Who" series and a discussion of the gay comic book scene in Chicago. The programming seems so...
Keep Media, April 5, 2010
...C- av club rating D+ reader rating based on 1 rating Director: Tyler Perry Cast: Tyler Perry, Janet Jackson, Jill Scott Rated: PG-13 Running time: 121 minutes There’s not much point in treating Tyler Perry movies as freestanding entities, a perspective...
EdgeBoston.com, April 5, 2010
...288. Price: $16.95. ISBN-13: 978-1-594-744-341 Ellen Wernecke’s work has appeared in Publishers Weekly and The Onion A.V. Club, and she comments on books regularly for WEBR’s "Talk of the Town with Parker Sunshine." A Wisconsin native, she now lives...
Canada.com, March 29, 2010
...148 nations. Even those people whose primary export is sarcasm are looking inward, as evidenced by a recent A.V. Club column declaring, earnestly, that 'life is too short to waste on having insincere reactions to insipid things.' The author of that...
San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 2010
...Sevigny is scared bosses at HBO will reprimand her for her scathing comments. In an interview with The A.V. Club, she says, "It was awful this season, as far as I'm concerned. I'm not allowed to say that! It was very telenovela. I feel like it...
Edmonton Journal, March 26, 2010
...148 nations. Even those people whose primary export is sarcasm are looking inward, as evidenced by a recent A.V. Club column declaring, earnestly, that 'life is too short to waste on having insincere reactions to insipid things.'The author of that...
Vancouver Sun, March 26, 2010
...148 nations. Even those people whose primary export is sarcasm are looking inward, as evidenced by a recent A.V. Club column declaring, earnestly, that "life is too short to waste on having insincere reactions to insipid things." The author of that...
EdgeBoston.com, March 22, 2010
...Format: Trade Paperback Original. ISBN-13: 978-1-592-405-299 Ellen Wernecke’s work has appeared in Publishers Weekly and The Onion A.V. Club, and she comments on books regularly for WEBR’s "Talk of the Town with Parker Sunshine." A Wisconsin native,...
Washington Times, March 18, 2010
...Make it a Netflix night. Or make it a Redbox night. Or make it an On Demand night. But "make it a Blockbuster night"? Dallas-based Blockbuster wishes it could press the rewind button and return to the days a decade ago when it was the giant in the...
The Onion AV Club, March 17, 2010
...grounds of Harlan County, Kentucky, where his past comes back to haunt him. Olyphant recently spoke to The A.V. Club about shooting his own stunts, In a longer version of this Q&A, Timothy Olyphant discusses filming his own stunts (and his own stunt...
USA Today, March 3, 2010
...trailer. - HBO has picked upGame of Thrones, based on George R.R. Martin's novels. - The A.V. Club interviews Fred Schneider about his new band. - Nick Simmons (Gene Simmons' son) has issued a statement apologizing for his comics, which readers noticed...
The Onion AV Club, February 5, 2010
...discuss these yourself… just don’t ask us to. Hey, I was curious if any members of The A.V. Club have creative outlets beyond their jobs. Have any of you been in a band, written a screenplay, hosted an art show, done stand-up/improv, given G.G. Allin...
The Onion AV Club, January 7, 2010
...on a foundation of genocide and deadly secrets. While on a cross-country book tour, VanderMeer spoke with The A.V. Club about the genesis of Finch, his love of music, and how even the most iconoclastic fantasy writers can’t escape Tolkien’s towering...
The Onion AV Club, January 7, 2010
...B av club rating Director: Kate Davis, Franco Sacchi, David Heilbroner Cast: Documentary Rated: Not Rated Running time: 74 minutes For those who believe the Rapture is imminent, bad news is good news. Environmental catastrophe? War in the Middle East?...
Moviefone, January 4, 2010
...Canada 10 years after he fled. He’s still out there somewhere. Read the full review The Onion (A.V. Club) | Tasha RobinsonAdd Critic to Favorites What makes Fifty Dead Men work is the story’s sheer moral complexity, which dares viewers to sympathize...
New York Times, December 30, 2009
...Journal. Meanwhile, Freakonomics has been named one of best books of the 00's by The Onion's A.V. Club the Times (U.K.), and the Telegraph. New York magazine recently released its list of the most astonishing counterintuitive ideas of the 2000's; between...
Seven Days Vermont, December 22, 2009
...TAGS: books, state of the arts Want to see more? Monsters by Ken Dahl, Secret Acres, 200 pages. $18. Also by Cathy Resmer Articles in books Tags What do you do after you’re diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease? If you’re cartoonist Gabby...
New York Times, December 22, 2009
...Times. Freakonomics, meanwhile, has been named one of best books of the 00's by The Onion's A.V. Club the Times (U.K.), and the Telegraph. New York magazine has just released its list of the most astonishing counterintuitive ideas of the 2000's; between...
New York Times, December 21, 2009
...Times. Freakonomics, meanwhile, has been named one of best books of the 00's by The Onion's A.V. Club the Times (U.K.), and the Telegraph. New York magazine has just released its list of the most astonishing counterintuitive ideas of the 2000's; between...
New York Times, December 21, 2009
...Times. Freakonomics, meanwhile, has been named one of best books of the 00's by The Onion's A.V. Club the Times (U.K.), and the Telegraph. New York magazine has just released its list of the most astonishing counterintuitive ideas of the 2000's; between...
New York Times, December 18, 2009
...Times. Freakonomics, meanwhile, has been named one of best books of the 00's by The Onion's A.V. Club the Times (U.K.), and the Telegraph. New York magazine has just released its list of the most astonishing counterintuitive ideas of the 2000's; between...
New York Times, December 18, 2009
...Times. Freakonomics, meanwhile, has been named one of best books of the 00's by The Onion's A.V. Club the Times (U.K.), and the Telegraph. New York magazine has just released its list of the most astonishing counterintuitive ideas of the 2000's; between...
New York Times, December 18, 2009
...Times. Freakonomics, meanwhile, has been named one of best books of the 00’s by The Onion’s A.V. Club, the Times (U.K.), and the Telegraph. New York magazine has just released its list of the most astonishing counterintuitive ideas of the 2000’s;...
The Onion AV Club, December 18, 2009
...This week's Hatecast, which happens to be the last Hatecast of 2009, is so full of holiday cheer it's like sticking candy canes strung with dangling Hallmark Keepsake ornaments in both of your ears.  Amelie Gillette and The AV Club's very own Nathan...
The Onion AV Club, December 16, 2009
...in a sentence, you’re welcome to it. 18. The End Of Poverty? It wouldn’t be an A.V. Club “Worst-Of” list without at least one heavy-handed leftist documentary, the kind that preaches so stridently to the choir that it dares sympathetic viewers to...
The Onion AV Club, December 4, 2009
...In case you missed this important announcement the first time around... The A.V. Club will be descending on Union Hall in Brooklyn this Monday, December 7, at 8pm. Most of the crew will be in attendance: Keith Phipps, Kyle Ryan, Tasha Robinson...
New York Times, December 2, 2009
...Journal. Meanwhile, Freakonomics has been named one of the best books of the decade by The Onion's A.V. Club, the Times (U.K.) and the Telegraph. About Freakonomics Stephen J. Dubner is an author and journalist who lives in New York City. Bio | Contact |...
New York Times, November 30, 2009
...as . Meanwhile, Freakonomics has been named one of the best books of the decade by The Onion's A.V. Club, the Times is an who lives in New York City. is a at the University of Chicago. Their book Freakonomics has sold 4 million copies worldwide. Their...
The Onion AV Club, November 25, 2009
...his demons and searching for justice in the drug-related murder of Senegalese immigrants. Herzog recently spoke to The A.V. Club about Nicolas Cage, New Orleans, and his new Rogue Film School. The A.V. Club: Thinking about Bad Lieutenant in relation to...
USA Today, November 19, 2009
...watching or a waste of time? Please advise.) Anyway, let's hop right on these headlines: - The A.V. Club has its list of the best music of the decade. - I'm always interested to see which documentaries are make the shortlist to win an Academy Award...
EdgeBoston.com, November 16, 2009
...95. Format: Hardcover original. ISBN-13: 978-0-810-982-659 Ellen Wernecke’s work has appeared in Publishers Weekly and The Onion A.V. Club, and she comments on books regularly for WEBR’s "Talk of the Town with Parker Sunshine." A Wisconsin native,...
The Onion AV Club, November 3, 2009
...More Nashville or Bust A.V. Club head writer and hip-hop specialist Nathan Rabin recently decided to spend a year or two immersing himself in the canon of country music, a genre he knew little...
Concordia Link, October 30, 2009
...Acclaimed author of Baloney shares his insights and insecurities Blanchet’s style is based on album covers from the 1940s. If you’ve ever read The New Yorker or the National Post, you’ve probably seen the work of graphic artist Pascal Blanchet....
The Onion AV Club, October 30, 2009
...and passing it off as his own. Shortly after the Broncos première at Austin’s Fantastic Fest, The A.V. Club spoke with Clement about bringing Chevalier’s very specific quirks to life, why he isn’t looking to pal around with Ashton Kutcher anytime...
Chicago Tribune, October 27, 2009
...head table at a garish wedding. 'We have way too many people,' adds Josh Modell, managing editor of A.V. Club, the collection of arts writing that comprises the more earnest, fact-based back half of The Onion. Rather than a wedding, a coming-out party...
Chicago Tribune, October 27, 2009
...table at a garish wedding. "We have way too many people," adds Josh Modell, managing editor of A.V. Club, the collection of arts writing that comprises the more earnest, fact-based back half of The Onion. Rather than a wedding, a coming-out party might...
USA Today, October 19, 2009
...Reporter gives a very positive review to Hilary Swank's portrayal of Amelia Earhart in Amelia. - The A.V. Club talks to Yoko Ono. - The Flaming Lips are reportedly planning a cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album. - Horshack from Welcome Back...
The Onion AV Club, October 13, 2009
...it. With the film now out on DVD in a new special collectors? edition, Towne spoke to The A.V. Club about his discovery of Los Angeles? hidden past, the trouble with Raymond Chandler, and his original plans to make Chinatown the first part of a film...
Chicago Sun-Times, October 5, 2009
...at the Cliff Dweller?s Club, 200 S. Michigan, 22nd Floor. ? The editors of The Onion?s A.V. Club sign Inventory, 7 p.m. at Borders, 2817 N. Clark. OCT. 14 ? Rabbi Harold Kushner signs Conquering Fears, 7 p.m. at Anderson?s Bookshop, 123 W...
Poynter Institute, September 22, 2009
...Romenesko Letters Nathan Rabin says The A.V. Club website that Daniel Mallory wrote about in last Saturday's Washington Post "seems to exist only in his imagination." The review, says the site's head writer...
Washington Post, September 19, 2009
...produced video segments, aired on the Onion News Network, are disarmingly authentic. Its arts and entertainment section, the A.V. Club, is a shambles. It's also the brainchild of Nathan Rabin, whose new memoir, 'The Big Rewind,' chronicles his febrile...
The Onion AV Club, September 17, 2009
...time to actually learn from what got us here in the first place. Andersen recently visited with The A.V. Club to discuss Rush Limbaugh, Keith Olbermann, ?birthers,? health-care reform, Wile E. Coyote, Peter Pan, Donald Trump, and how to turn lemons...
The Onion AV Club, September 16, 2009
...powerlessness. But I don?t think I?m telling tales out of school when I say that The A.V. Club rules the Chicago film-critic community through fear, intimidation, and constant beatings with rusty chains. We swagger into the screening room four deep,...
ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blo, June 16, 2010
...Blog :   The Monster Squad Remake Recruits Writers MovieWeb: News :   The Monster Squad Remake Lands Two Writers A.V. Club :   Film: Newswire: Today's mass purging of sequels and remakes: The Karate Kid, Ghost Rider, The Monster Squad, The...
Film School Rejects, June 14, 2010
...Posted by Neil Miller ( neil@filmschoolrejects.com ) on June 14, 2010 Share If you watched last night’s season three finale of Breaking Bad , I have no doubt that you are just as excited as I am about the fact that AMC has picked the show up for a...
Hit & Run, June 8, 2010
...Tonight is the season finale of Glee , a surprising popular TV show about scrappy high school show choir set in Lima, Ohio. Think High School Musical without the grimy coating of Disneyfied lameness. In honor of the upcoming finale, Christina Mulligan of...
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog, June 4, 2010
...Journal Daniel Menaker , Barnes & Noble Review Patrick Tucker , The Futurist Fritz Nelson , InformationWeek Ellen Wernecke , The Onion A.V. Club Peter Burrows , Bloomberg BusinessWeek Adam Thierer , Technology Liberation Front Christopher Caldwell ,...
Largehearted Boy, June 2, 2010
...that singer-songwriter Bill Callahan's debut novel Letters to Emma Bowlcut will be published on June 20th. The A.V. Club interviews LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy about his new album, This Is Happening . Details interviews Bret Easton Ellis about his new...
SF Signal, January 8, 2010
...Interviews/Profiles Alethea Kontis interviews Peter S. Beagle . The A.V. Club interviews Jeff VanderMeer . (via Matt Staggs ) Elitist Book Reviews interviews Kristine Kathryn Rusch . John Scalzi profiles Sarah A. Hoyt . Fantasy Book Critic interviews Tim...
Lists Galore!, January 3, 2010
...(image credit: Shaheer Shahid ) Top 10 best debut novels of the decade The 10 best short-story collections of the '00s Top ten book covers of the '00s Top 10 superhero deaths of the decade The 12 best music books of the decade The 15 worst comics of the...
Random Meanderings at Middle Age, January 2, 2010
...Darklight was an enjoyable first read of the new year.  I truly enjoyed the first book in the series, Wondrous Strange and was pleased to be completely enchanted with the sequel.  I read a lot of YA and a lot of fantasy and a lot of that YA Fantasy...
SteveMandich.com Blog, December 31, 2009
...Paul Shaffer 4. The Art of Tony Millionaire by Tony Millionaire 5. Inventory by the Writers of the A.V. Club 6. Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition by Alan J. Stein, Paula Becker & the Historylink Staff Notes: I need to read more books...
.: chromewaves.net v7.5, December 30, 2009
...Marshall Angus Christmas may be a distant memory now – it was a whole WEEK ago – but the giving continues thanks to Can-indie supergroup Novels . The outfit, comprised of Tokyo Police Club keyboardist Graham Wright, Born Ruffians guitarist/singer...
Realmscapes, December 29, 2009
...green for the latter. (The colours have no bearing on whether I personally enjoyed the film or not.) A.V. Club posted their 13 ,but here are ours since we either don't agree or haven't seen certainmovies on their list; a film is on this list for...
The Culturatti, December 23, 2009
...Beal earlier brought us the A.V. Club’s list of top TV shows from 2000 – 2009 , so I thought I would take a look at the equivalent one for books , and bring them to...
know by heart, December 22, 2009
...glad they were willing to poke fun at themselves for making a list of Toronto’s villains. The A.V. Club. I’m a sucker for an end-of-year album list that goes up to 25, contains some things I hadn’t heard before but sound promising, and is just...
Freakonomics, December 18, 2009
...Times . Freakonomics , meanwhile, has been named one of best books of the 00’s by The Onion ’s A.V. Club , the Times (U.K.), and the Telegraph . New York magazine has just released its list of the most astonishing counterintuitive ideas of the...
Bibliobibuli, December 15, 2009
...Bookfox has an excellent list of best collections of short stories of the decade , and links to another list on the AV Club blog . The two titles both lists have in common are Pastoralia by George Saunders and Runaway by Alice Munroe. Perhaps there are...
Introducing WRITERS! with Kim Smith | Blog Talk Ra, December 14, 2009
...Author of AT LEAST IN THE CITY SOMEONE WOULD HEAR ME SCREAMChosen As A Summer Must-Read by:-NBC’s Today Show-The Detroit Free-Press-The St. Louis Post-Dispatch-Chicago Magazine-St. Louis Magazine-Out Magazine-Frontiers Magazine-Bestselling author Jen...
BookFox, December 14, 2009
...my picks for best short story collections of the decade. If you want another take, check out the A.V. Club's choices -- we got a few in common, but a whole lot of differences. If you think I missed one, you're wrong. Probably. But if you...
Waxy.org Links, December 11, 2009
...Collins-Sussman's Rover's Day Out , voted the top game of the bunch, was hailed by The Onion A.V. Club as "an engrossing science-fiction experience to rival the genre’s best short stories". Here's a short description for the title: "Three hundred years...
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Bo, November 25, 2009
...[ Oregon Business , via Jeff Parker ] Manga | In response to the exclusion of manga from The A.V. Club's best comics of the decade, blogger David Welsh puts out the call for five Japanese comics that merit inclusion on the list. [ Precocious Curmudgeon...
Blog@Newsarama, November 24, 2009
...decade. (There will be other sticklers who post about it next year. No complaining, people.) But the Onion A.V. Club has a list of some of the best of the best — 25 to be exact, with five other archival collections — from publishers all over the place...
IndieBlips - Top Indie Music News, Videos, and Blo, November 19, 2009
...2 days ago found this Blog Reactions Prefix :   Jay-Z, Kanye West, OutKast, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Wilco: A.V. Club Names White Stripes' 'White Blood Cells' Album of the Decade A.V....
Fork in the Road, November 17, 2009
...The book, many agree, is less about shunning meat and more about shunning industrially farmed meat. In an A.V. Club interview with the author, Jonathan Safran Foer appeals to more carnivorous readers: "If you were to say to me, 'Hey, I read your book. It...
cream.fm, November 10, 2009
...let alone put any genuine feeling into it. It's not a remake; it's a pose. The A.V. Club interviews Glan Hansard of the Swell Season and the Frames . Glide interviews Portugal. The Man's John Gourley. The Retriever Weekly lists "must-have,...
cream.fm, November 9, 2009
...frontman Dan Nigro. At BBC News , John Taylor examines the effects of the internet on new music. The A.V. Club lists 16 ways to survive a Stephen King story. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the Spider-Man musical, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark ,...
BuzzSugar, November 2, 2009
...Joseph Gordon-Levitt and January Jones have been tapped to host SNL this month — The AV Club Julia Roberts's production company has acquired the movie rights to unpublished book In the Neighborhood — Moviefone Morgan Freeman will star in comedy Dirty...
Largehearted Boy, October 31, 2009
...Swell Season . Jayne Anne Phillips talks to the Chicago Tribune about her latest novel, Lark and Termite . The A.V. Club interviews Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords . The Guardian lists 10 of the best rats in literature. In the New York Times ,...
Coudal Partners Blended Feed, September 30, 2009
...A trailer for The Onion A.V. Club's new Inventory book, which features lots of great writing by friends of the agency and one wife of the agency...
First Order Historians, September 30, 2009
...through “The Onion” website, release date October 13.  Click here for more info. Posted in Books Tagged: A.V. Club, Lists, Pop Culture, The Onion...
Romenesko, September 22, 2009
...Romenesko Letters Nathan Rabin says The A.V. Club website that Daniel Mallory wrote about in last Saturday's Washington Post "seems to exist only in his imagination." The review, says the site's head writer...