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A.V. Club

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... Read full bio

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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,...
The Onion AV Club, August 26, 2009
...Wrapped Up In Books isThe A.V. Club's monthly book club. We're currently discussing this month's selection, John Crowley'sLIttle, Bigin a series of posts to be followed by a livechat some time...
The Onion AV Club, August 25, 2009
...Wrapped Up In Books is The A.V. Club's monthly book club. We're currently discussing this month's selection, John Crowley's LIttle, Big in a series of posts to be followed by a livechat...
Comic Book Resources, August 21, 2009
...Welcome to a new feature we're starting here at Robot 6 titled 'Comics College.' Once a month (or more if time permits) we'll be examining the body of work of a particular cartoonist or cartoonists of note in the hopes of giving newcomers and the...
ABC News, August 13, 2009
...and politicians with some Summer-themed guests, this week we interviewed Nathan Rabin, head writer of The Onion?s A.V. Club and author of You can listen to the podcast on iTunes or by clicking HERE Critic Roger Ebert blurbs ?The Big Rewind? thusly:...
Crikey Media, July 28, 2009
...To the varied signs of the economic collapse we can now add a small but notable subspecies of urbanite: You'll recognize him (or her) by the ear buds burrowing into his head, the freebie SXSW tote bag slung over his shoulder, and the unintelligible...
The Onion AV Club, July 26, 2009
...Well, hello there! Welcome to The A.V. Club's annual coverage of the San Diego Comic Con International. It's a big year for the Con, this being its 40th anniversary and all, so it should...
Time Out New York, July 23, 2009
...to Rabin?s adulthood as an obsessive consumer of pop culture and a writer for The Onion?s A.V. Club. In this journey from troubled youth to successful critic, the author?s guides and life lessons come in the form of movies, books and songs. He...
Examiner.com, July 17, 2009
...interviews, comics, animations, and poems. Notable contributors include novelist/High Times writer/CNN & NPR contributor Jason Flores-Williams, The Onion A.V. Club contributor Jason Heller, DIY poet/founder of the Fast Geek book empire Charles ?the...
The Onion AV Club, July 16, 2009
...Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn. Recently, the former Foreign Affairs Desk Chief for Rolling Stone visited with The A.V. Club to discuss Ann Coulter, Clint Eastwood, the idiocy of Prius owners, and why we?ll soon be begging the Bolivians for lithium....
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 12, 2009
...the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He rose to become the head writer of the publication's entertainment section, the A.V. Club...
The Onion AV Club, July 11, 2009
...For the last decade or so, if you wanted to praise a TV show, you praised its novelistic construction or pointed out how it was ?Dickensian? or something, just to indicate that the broad sweep of a good TV series is a very different thing from the...
USA Today, July 6, 2009
...back. Rabin, now 33 and living in Chicago, is head writer of The Onion's entertainment section, The A.V. Club. He is perhaps best known for his online column, My Year of Flops, which has attracted a cult following. Now Rabin's The Big Rewind: A Memoir...
The Onion AV Club, June 19, 2009
...Allowed To Make Inappropriate, Perverse Jokes About Her Daughter, Okay? I Watched This On Purpose 12 Rounds The A.V. Club Blog The Colbert Disconnect Inventory ?I?ll allow it!?: 18 crazy (and legally unlikely) courtroom scenes Tolerability Index...
The Onion AV Club, June 4, 2009
...for Away We Go, a new film by American Beauty and Revolutionary Road director Sam Mendes. Recently, The A.V. Club sat down at an Oak Park, Illinois restaurant with Eggers and Vida to talk about how the film came about, how their schedules became boring,...
The Onion AV Club, June 2, 2009
...For over 50 years, the Marlboro Man has served as one of the most instantly recognizable advertising icons in the world. Created in 1954, he helped shift Marlboro?s image as a sweet little cigarette for moms: To the preferred smoke of cowboys, the most...
EdgeBoston.com, May 22, 2009
...pop culture blog as seen in TIME Magazine. Her 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 in New York City...
The Onion AV Club, May 13, 2009
...Somewhere along the line, I became The A.V. Club?s default Chuck Palahniuk reviewer. I haven?t fully enjoyed any of his books since Survivor, but I kept being drawn to his new releases by a sense...
The Onion AV Club, May 10, 2009
...More Box Of Paperbacks Book Clubs (Not long ago?okay, it?s going on two years now, but whatever?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...
Indiewire, April 24, 2009
...to as âan outstanding movie floating out there somewhereâ in his recent interview with Scott Tobias over at A.V. Club, but the version that will make its way to theaters today is a hopelessly boring effort, one which only escapes its slapdash...
The Onion AV Club, April 22, 2009
...a direct hand in the production, adapting the script with co-writer Nicholas Jarecki. Ellis recently spoke to The A.V. Club about adaptations of his work, his blunt feelings toward people who don?t like his characters, and the American Psycho stage...
The Onion AV Club, April 16, 2009
...More Wrapped Up In Bookss In case you haven?t caught on, The A.V. Club is home to a fervently pro-reading, up-with-books crowd. To serve this crowd a little better, we plan to make some additions to the site over the next couple...
Huffington Post, March 20, 2009
...In January, film critic David Denby published an essay called 'Snark: It's Mean, It's Personal and It's Ruining Our Conversation.' It's not a perfect book, but he's right. His book is a bit like Harry Frankfurt's popular essay 'On Bullshit,' which opened...
The Onion AV Club, March 16, 2009
...years, as narrated by Dickens? friend and literary rival, laudanum addict Wilkie Collins. Simmons recently spoke to The A.V. Club about research, genre-hopping, and what?s holding up Guillermo Del Toro from adapting Drood. The A.V. Club: Drood, like...
The Onion AV Club, March 16, 2009
...The end of 2008 also brought the release of a tabletop role-playing game designed with Luke Crane. The A.V. Club recently spoke with Petersen about his influences, why he chose to tell a story about mice instead of bears, the latest news on the film...
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...
Omnivoracious, September 4, 2009
...at the seven books that comprise Volume One of the now three volume series. In late July, The A.V. Club 's excellent "Guide to Geekery " feature attempted to open up Love and Rockets to new readers. Then, comicbookresources.com 's feature, "Comics...
TheScore.com Blog, August 31, 2009
...Do I really even need to write anything here? Don’t those magnificent paintings of moustachioed 1980s New York first basemen say enough? I completely think they do… but, just to give you a little context, they were painted by Robert Siegel, writer of...
Largehearted Boy, August 31, 2009
...blog covers album art in all its glory. PopMatters examines the health of the indie music industry. The A.V. Club lists songs to soundtrack a suicide. BookGeeks reviews Nick cave's new novel, The Death of Bunny Munro (I much prefer the US cover to the UK...
cream.fm, August 31, 2009
...blog covers album art in all its glory. PopMatters examines the health of the indie music industry. The A.V. Club lists songs to soundtrack a suicide. BookGeeks reviews Nick cave's new novel, The Death of Bunny Munro (I much prefer the US cover to...
io9, August 13, 2009
...By Charlie Jane Anders , 9:00 AM on Thu Aug 13 2009, 988 views ( Edit , to draft , Slurp ) Copy this whole post to another site Slurp cancel...
First Offenders, July 31, 2009
...I'm knee deep in novel work today, so I won't go on and on about bookstores or publishing or whatnot (except to say that I still don't like this idea I hear that full-price hardcover books are some sort of "bargain" when you know they'll end up...
MetaChat, June 16, 2009
...What fictional world would you like to live in? A question inspired by this article on The AV Club. → [More:] If you'd asked me as a kid, I'd probably have said, the world of "Bewitched." (Assuming I was part of Samantha's family and not Darren's,...
Quit Drinking And Overcome Alcoholism, June 14, 2009
...The Onion AV Club - Found 3 hours ago … probably be an exaggeration to say that Wisconsin has a culture of alcoholism and excess. But Wisconsin has a culture of alcoholism and excess....
Whedonesque | a weblog about Joss Whedon, June 12, 2009
...Fun Fictional Worlds. AV Club writers ponder the question: "Which works of fiction create a world (or a version of reality) that you’d consider most enjoyable to live in?". Some great stuff to read but only Zack Handlen provides the appropriate answer....
Whedonesque | a weblog about Joss Whedon, June 12, 2009
...Fun Fictional Worlds AV Club writers ponder the question: "Which works of fiction create a world (or a version of reality) that you’d consider most enjoyable to live in?". Some great stuff to read but only Zack Handlen provides the appropriate answer....
TexasBestGrok, May 25, 2009
...Beach Reading The A.V. Club at The Onion has put together a list of books for the summer . Titles include M. John Harrison's Nova Swing (on Mount Toberead), Gene Wolfe's WizardKnight...
bookshelves of doom, May 18, 2009
...The SBBT rides again !  I wasn't able to get it together to participate this time around*, but I'll very definitely be following along. The Guys Lit Wire Book Fair continues. I keep meaning to mention that Flux now has a podcast .  So here I am,...
Will Eisner: A Spirited Life, May 4, 2009
... The Spirit Movie (The Onion, A.V. Club) by Tasha Robinson April 28, 2009 Crimes: • Turning Will Eisner’s iconic series about a heroic Boy Scout type into an overwrought, sexed-up noir version of Frank...
feeling listless, April 22, 2009
...Twitter versus the Telegraph: you can’t stop the lulz One of those Twitter memes you wish you'd been in for. momentum from the party pit What live football coverage can't capture, the joy of a pitch invasion from the pitch. It's A New Day What live...
SpoutBlog, April 22, 2009
...to say about The Informers . Scott Tobias has a very interesting interview with Bret Easton Ellis at the A.V. Club , in which the author/screenwriter of this week’s The Informers admits to not liking the cut of that film that’s being released, and...
The Stranger: Slog, April 15, 2009
...The Onion 's A.V. Club is starting a book club. Their first book is going to be Katherine Dunn's great novel Geek Love , which is a fine choice to kick off any...
Books Worth Reading, April 14, 2009
...These blogs prove that not all good reading comes in book form. A.V. Club - I love the TV recaps. They also have book reviews, the great book vs. film column and lots pop culture snarkiness. Boing Boing - One of my...
A Progressive on the Prairie, April 12, 2009
...tie between Adam-Troy Castro’s Emissaries from the Dead and David Walton’s Terminal Mind . Nonbookish Linkage The A.V. Club picks up my rant about how certain albums are made to be listened to in order . While not all of the 25 on its list would...
jeffkao.net, April 8, 2009
...Every week the writers for The Onion AV Club answer a question. I thought I’d share my own answers to one of their previous Q&A’s. This week’s question for me is: What one book would you most like to make the rest of the world read? Wow. This is...
Books Worth Reading, April 1, 2009
...the web, here are some other reviews of a few of my favorites: Book vs. Film: Watchmen (The A.V. Club) The Remains of the Day (A Guy’s Moleskine Notebook) Ender’s Game (A Striped Armchair) Posted in Monthly Reading, Reviews Tagged: Barbara...
gmtPlus9 (-15), March 22, 2009
...A.V. Club... Book vs. Film - Let The Right One In . "...Let The Right One In takes its name from a Morrissey song quoted on the title page for...
Dear J-, March 18, 2009
...Dear J- I was reading a couple of blogs at work (the key here is that down time is not granted, it’s earned:  mental breaks keep me sane, and if I had to talk to one more vendor who disagreed with their web catalog, so help me) and wondering about how...
ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed, March 16, 2009
...Book Vs. Film: Watchmen | Books | A.V. Club Moore and Gibbons vs. Zach Snyder (tags: comics movies literature books avclub ) First Lensman (1950), by E.E. “Doc” Smith | Books | A.V. Club "First Lensman...
Uncertain Principles, March 16, 2009
...Book Vs. Film: Watchmen | Books | A.V. Club Moore and Gibbons vs. Zach Snyder (tags: comics movies literature books avclub ) First Lensman (1950), by E.E. “Doc” Smith | Books | A.V. Club "First Lensman...
Bookspotcentral, March 4, 2009
...I actually received this news with the Top Shelf publishing schedule I posted yesterday, but I ran out of time! Nate Powell’s Swallow Me Whole has been nominated for the LA Times Book Prize . Why this is notable is that this is the first graphic novel...
HELLNOTES, March 3, 2009
...Top Shelf Productions has announced that Nate Powell’s graphic novel Swallow Me Whole has been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Swallow Me Whole is one of five official finalists in the category of Young Adult Fiction, making it the...
The House Next Door, March 3, 2009
...Tuesday, March 03, 2009 Links for the Day (March 3rd, 2009) 1. The late, great David Foster Wallace all over this week's The New Yorker with news that his long-gestating third novel, The Pale King , will be published next year by Little, Brown (news via...
Largehearted Boy, February 21, 2009
...made us realize that we can be whatever we feel like being." JDub Records has a blog. A.V. Club staffers recommend books, movies, and albums that should be required in high school curriculums, The Washington Post's Comic Riffs blog lists the top 10 black...
Diary of a Crossword Fiend, February 17, 2009
...have to wonder what sort of fears the guys who wrote these myths had. Tyler Hinman's Onion A.V. Club crossword follows up Valentine's Day with five suggestions for the unpartnered. Various options for seeking a date include SPEED DATING, a PERSONAL AD,...
buyroadwarrior.com, February 17, 2009
...ward Ta-Dah Studio album by Scissor Sisters Released September 15, 2006  ( 2006-09-15 ) Recorded May 2005–2006 Genre Glam rock Alternative Pop Length 47:24 Label Polydor Records (UK) Universal Records (US) Producer Scissor Sisters Professional reviews...
Largehearted Boy, February 3, 2009
...2007 album, Elijah Drop Your Gun for free. Bonnaroo has announced its lineup, including headliner Bruce Springsteen . The A.V. Club lists calamitous music and movie packaging gimmicks. Ars Technica examines the past, present, and future of e-books....
Largehearted Boy, January 31, 2009
...previews Bob Dylan's Super Bowl ad for Pepsi. Boxwish lists the best fictional bands in movies. The A.V. Club reviews the DVD, How to Work Out Like an Indie Rocker . The Washington Times lists the top 5 literary alter egos. NME's In the Office blog lists...
niko, January 27, 2009
...something of a feat for a book that could be used as a grammar primer.” – The Onion A.V. Club “A wrap-worthy language book. A multilingual voyage, exploring the âquirks, innovations, and implausibilities’ of the world’s languages.” –...
cadence, January 25, 2009
...something of a feat for a book that could be used as a grammar primer.” – The Onion A.V. Club “A wrap-worthy language book. A multilingual voyage, exploring the âquirks, innovations, and implausibilities’ of the world’s languages.” –...
Cinematical, January 23, 2009
...One of the audience and sales success stories at this year's Sundance Film Festival wound up on my screening schedule late in the week through the cruel editorial equations of film festival journalism: An Education became a film I should see because I...
Finance Books, January 14, 2009
...Klein is a gifted writer; her paragraphs can be as seductive as the ad campaigns she dissects.” Onion A.V. Club - Nathan Rabin The global economy described in Naomi Klein’s No Logo is one in which American CEOs collect millions for closing down...
Largehearted Boy, January 13, 2009
...and downloadable" graphic novels. NME's daily band reunion rumor has Pavement getting back together for Coachella. The A.V. Club interviews Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement of Flight Of The Conchords . Daytrotter's Tuesday session features in-studio...
Largehearted Boy, January 10, 2009
...read in 2009. io9 lists ten of the "kinkiest science fiction books you'll ever read." The A.V. Club interviews Jay Reatard . also at Largehearted Boy: Online "best of 2008" music lists Online "best of 2008" book lists daily mp3 downloads Try It Before...