If you liked Oscar Wao, then you should totally read "The Feast of the Goat" by Mario Vargas Llosa, which makes an excellent companion piece.

The fox is basically the animal equivalent on Jack Nicholson's character in Easy Rider.

Couple of things. Still making my way through Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude, which I read in brief bursts while waiting for my wash cycle to run its course at the laundrette or on the weekend train journeys when I go to see my folks. I just finished Dylan's incredible, excruciating pitch of "The…

I loved the irreverence and subversion Amstell brought to Channel 4's Popworld, which, despite ostensibly being just another music show where pop stars came on to promote their latest stuff, ended up being one of the most hilarious shows on tv. Sadly, his legendary segment, "Lemar From Afar" in which he interviewed…

I also watched it while in a fog of depression… and yet by the end of the film I was so awestruck at the sheer magnitude of despair that I actually felt better having watched it. Just to have every miserable, self-pitying thought that had ever crossed my mind, that constant internal monologue reminding me of how…

I prescribe.ice cream, scotch and Con Air on Netflix.

I do hope they come back to adapt the rest of the Karla Trilogy. it makes me wonder who they would cast as Karla now. Part of me wants to be obvious and say somebody like Bryan Cranston.

I kind of agree with you on this.

Morning AV Club. I didn't sleep well last night, so this might be full of typos and might not make a whole lot of sense.

FNL the tv series is phenomenal.

Oh Jobriath! You blowhard!

Just finished Ant Comic.

Preacher has not aged that well. i remember loving it as a teenager, mainly because of the fact that teenagers will tend to love things that are deliberately antagonistic. I find in general that Ennis is better when indulging in his love of history. As a result, the best stories in the Preacher series are tangential…

Did you see this?

You make a good point about the collusion between the Indonesian government and the Pemuda Pancasila. The supreme irony is that when Herman Koto runs for office, he pledges to be honest and incorruptible and thus runs on a campaign which doesn't involve bribing people for votes. He loses because of the same corrupt…

Agreed, cross dressing is a well worn trope but so many cross dressing, wacky disguise comedies basically start out with somebody having to hide from the Mob, which is basically the set up for Some Like It Hot.

Hi AV Club! Let's try and keep this short and sweet…

Love Bruno Kirby and was pretty sad when I read that he'd passed. That movie I used to imagine where he and Joe Pesci are brothers that run a speakeasy will have to stay imaginary.

Broadway Danny Rose is probably one of the sweetest Woody Allen movies. For me, the moment which wins me over is the ending, which surprised me by being a genuinely emotional moment after what had been, up until then, an amiable farce.

Did you laugh uncontrollably in his face?