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  • This Podcast Is Like In Cold Blood With Humor

    Hatecast This Podcast Is Like In Cold Blood With Humor

    Steven Tyler's karaoke adventures, Harvey Weinstein's tips for NPR interviews, and Italy's love for Auntie Mame.

    February 5, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Gateways To Geekery

    Gateways To Geekery EC Comics

    Finding the best introduction to the comics that scandalized the nation in the 1950s.

    February 4, 2010 | 12:31pm -

  • I Don’t Care About Your Band

    Review Julie Klausner: I Don’t Care About Your Band

    Upright Citizens Brigade's Julie Klausner discusses a lifetime of chasing boys in this Valentine's Day-ready memoir.

    February 4, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Tupac Shakur

    Review Tayannah Lee McQuillar and Fred Johnson: Tupac Shakur

    This biography/history gets crippled by flat writing and a bit too much editorializing.

    February 4, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • The Harvard Psychedelic Club

    Review Don Lattin: The Harvard Psychedelic Club

    This group biography of four key figures who "killed the '50s" is entertainingly dramatic, but a little too crowded.

    February 4, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Brain Thief

    Review Alexander Jablokov: Brain Thief

    Do AIs dream of electric sheep? This science-fiction novel follows in Philip K. Dick's wake.

    February 4, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Summertime

    Review J.M. Coetzee: Summertime

    The third in a series of oddly crafted autobiographies from recluse J.M. Coetzee takes a new tack.

    February 4, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Newswire Calvin And Hobbes creator Bill Watterson gives first interview in over twenty years

    February 2, 2010 | 3:06pm -

  • Joe The Barbarian

    Comics Panel January 29, 2009

    The A.V. Club's bi-weekly comics reviews.

    January 29, 2010 | 12:12pm -

  • Joshua Ferris

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    A conversation with the author of Then We Came To The End—the subject of this week’s “Wrapped Up In Books” discussion—and the new novel The Unnamed.

    January 29, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Cultural obligations

    AVQ&A Cultural obligations

    This week, we talk about things we felt morally obligated to try, even when we knew we’d be sorry.

    January 29, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Newswire RIP J.D. Salinger

    January 28, 2010 | 12:18pm -

  • The Last Starship From Earth

    Box Of Paperbacks Book Club The Last Starship From Earth by John Boyd

    In a world where scientists and poets were never supposed to fall in love, they did.

    January 28, 2010 | 12:00pm -

  • Then We Came To The End live chat kicks off here at 4:30 PM ET / 3:30 PM CT

    Wrapped Up In Books Then We Came To The End live chat kicks off here at 4:30 PM ET / 3:30 PM CT

    Then We Came To The End live chat kicks off here at 4:30 PM ET / 3:30 PM CT

    January 28, 2010 | 11:01am -

  • Wrapped Up In Books Then We Came To The End: final thoughts and general discussion

    January 28, 2010 | 10:00am -

  • Hardboiled Hollywood

    Review Max Décharné: Hardboiled Hollywood

    This nonfiction book doesn't exactly live up to its claims about telling the true-crime stories behind famous noir films, but it's an entertaining, pulpy read nonetheless.

    January 28, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Day Out Of Days

    Review Sam Shepard: Day Out Of Days

    Sam Shepard returns to prose fiction with a collection that's more images and moments than conventional narrative.

    January 28, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • 36 Arguments For The Existence Of God

    Review Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: 36 Arguments For The Existence Of God

    This novel about a reluctant spokesman for atheists comes from a MacArthur grant recipient who set out to write philosophical fiction.

    January 28, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Wench

    Review Dolen Perkins-Valdez: Wench

    The relationship between a slave and her owner provides a staging ground for a new author to develop her initially shaky talent.

    January 28, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • A Fair Maiden

    Review Joyce Carol Oates: A Fair Maiden

    Joyce Carol Oates is back with another tale of a troubled teen romance, but this one lacks a sense of what teenagers are actually like.

    January 28, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Newswire RIP Howard Zinn

    January 27, 2010 | 6:00pm -

  • Wrapped Up In Books Then We Came To The End: thoughts on cast and characters

    January 27, 2010 | 10:00am -

  • Wrapped Up In Books  Then We Came To The End: thoughts on plot and unfolding

    January 26, 2010 | 10:00am -

  • Wrapped Up In Books Then We Came To The End: Opening thoughts on voice and style

    January 25, 2010 | 10:00am -

  • Breaking Bad

    Inventory That’s cancertainment!: 25 great songs, books, films, albums, and TV shows in which cancer plays a major role

    The A.V. Club's weekly list.

    January 25, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Morrissey completes me

    AVQ&A Pop-culture completism 

    This week, we ask our staff and readers what they have to have absolutely all of.

    January 22, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Spartacus Promises Historically Accurate Orgies

    Hatecast Spartacus Promises Historically Accurate Orgies

    Cable's love of historical sex shows, the upcoming Us Weekly guide to words like "momshell," and awful movie taglines.

    January 22, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Hater If You Wear The Twilight Jacket, You'll Totally Get An Icy, Controlling, Abstinent Vampire Boyfriend Too!

    Ladies?

    January 21, 2010 | 12:05pm -

  • Cleaving

    Review Julie Powell: Cleaving

    Everybody seems to hate Julie Powell these days. Does her new book earn her that much scorn?

    January 21, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • The Unnamed

    Review Joshua Ferris: The Unnamed

    The latest from the author of the bestselling office novel Then We Came To The End drops the unusual voice in favor of an unusual premise.

    January 21, 2010 | 12:00am -

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