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 are Editor Keith
Phipps, Managing Editor Josh Modell, and Associate Editors Tasha
Robinson and Kyle Ryan.
Chuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of many books of
nonfiction (including The Nineties, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa
Puffs, I Wear the Black Hat, and But What If We're
Wrong?) and fiction (Downtown Owl, The Visible
Man, and Raised in Captivity). He has written
for The New York Times, The Washington
Post, GQ, Esquire, Spin, The Guardian, The
Believer, Billboard, The A.V. Club, and ESPN. Klosterman
served as the Ethicist for The New York Times
Magazine for three years, and was an original founder of the
website Grantland with Bill Simmons.
"Inventory is awesome and will provide you with endless hours of
reading and arguing with friends. I love this book, except for page
124. I don't care what anybody says, Bowie's 'Young Americans'
sounds terrific with the saxophone. Go f*** yourself, A.V. Club."
-- Joel McHale, The Soup
"In a culture that worships the disposable, lazy lists obligatorily
put together by self-serving editorial staffs at the likes of
Barely Information Magazine, The A.V. Club has decided to embrace
what it parodies until it meets itself just outside of heaven and
shakes its own hand while flipping itself, and you and me, off.
Kudos, A.V. Club!" -- David Cross, Mr. Show and Arrested
Development
"I'm going to put this awesome book on my coffee table so when
people come over they'll think I'm fun, clever, and sophisticated,
but charmingly populist. And when they see my name on the back
cover, they'll also think I'm famous!" -- Mindy Kaling, The
Office
"Despite the fact that they declined to ask me to participate in
this award-winning* book, I bear no ill will toward the writers
because they are all geniuses; buying this book will make you feel
a genius, too.** (*This book has not won any awards. **No, that was
not a typo. I literally meant you would feel a genius.)" -- Michael
Ian Black, The State and Michael And Michael Have Issues
"I did look at the book and enjoyed it, but didn't have time to
come up with a quote, unless 'Seems like a pretty good book. I had
a great time skimming it' works." -- Eugene Mirman, Flight Of The
Conchords and The Will To Whatevs
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