I feel like it has to be easier to be a popular genre author than a popular (within the narrower slice of people who read literary stuff) literary author. Money concerns aside (I'm sure Pynchon's been doing fine for a while now), just seems stressful. I'd be worried about what the academy thinks about my goddamn…

That's a joke right? I don't think he's ever granted an interview?

A year too late, but I've just gotten back into Bob Dylan, and I have to agree. And I also have to add-the recommendation that's most useful to me is not rankings of beginning, intermediate, advanced listens, or top 5 albums when it comes to titans like Bob Dylan who have such a huge body of work it can quite honestly…

A year too late, but I've just gotten back into Bob Dylan, and I have to agree. And I also have to add-the recommendation that's most useful to me is not rankings of beginning, intermediate, advanced listens, or top 5 albums when it comes to titans like Bob Dylan who have such a huge body of work it can quite honestly…

@avclub-ea1026696cadc48775907505feafed8e:disqus I think I was pretty clear-I'm not bashing the book, I just want to know what's so great about it, which admittedly is not the best way to phrase it-my initial impression is it seems like the latest Da Vinci Code/Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

Just wanted to chime in and say the 33 1/3 book on Ween is awesome.

Yeah, I mean, the name of this place is the A(udio)V(isual) Club. They've always had book reviews, but the focus has always been much more heavy on the namesake-look at all the music, television, video game and film stuff and compare it to the relatively sparse offerings here. Book-related stuff also seems to get…

What is the appeal of that series? I'm not bashing it, it's just that it's been recommended to me but nothing's compelled me to read it based on what I've heard. It sounds like a weird young adult novel. The cover art and the way it's been presented to me just make it sound like the next Stieg Larsson series-popular…

If we want a longer book, I'd go with another Fitzgerald-Tender is the Night is criminally underrated. Actually, not sure I'd hold it up as the pinnacle of American writing, but I liked it more than Gatsby.

Glad to see a positive review here. I generally find Lethem to be a mixed bag.

Oh shit that's really a movie? I took a cursory look at it on IMDb and assumed it was just a documentary he was involved in.

Is he working on a new movie? Novel? I read something 4 years ago that said he signed a book contract and was writing a novel.

Saw Jim Jefferies at the Best Buy Theater in Manhattan earlier this year. Terrible show. Saw the later show so people were drunker and louder, and kept derailing Jefferies (also, the dude was fucking hammered by the second show).

That would be awesome.

Yeah, I forgot that was one of his lines.

@avclub-da518aecddbf5c94588f53562012c452:disqus Saul lives by a sort of corollary to the First Rule of Policing: Make it home for dinner (infer what you will).

They sort of crossed the rubicon though, didn't they? Once they pointed their guns at cops.

@avclub-03f396a359ef22a21e37b7b45f4d9979:disqus In Raiders of the Lost Ark, maybe.

Holy shit, I completely forgot about those roles and I've seen all those movies/shows! Wow. Who was he in Jackie Brown? The not Michael Keaton cop?

True, but all that takes some time. Hank literally just told his wife that he snagged Walt and that processing him (and presumably explaining shit to his superiors) is going to take a while. For the next few hours, Marie is just going to assume that Hank is tied up with Walt stuff. She's going to be relieved and…