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  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 -

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  Gateways To Geekery EC Comics

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

  February 4, 2010 | 12:31pm -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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  Comics Panel January 29, 2009

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

  January 29, 2010 | 12:12pm -

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  Interview Joshua Ferris

  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 -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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

  January 28, 2010 | 10:00am -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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

  January 27, 2010 | 10:00am -

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

  January 26, 2010 | 10:00am -

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

  January 25, 2010 | 10:00am -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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  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 -

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

  Ladies?

  January 21, 2010 | 12:05pm -

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  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 -

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  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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