About
The A.V. Club began in the back pages of satirical newspaper The Onion in 1993, but there was nothing fake about the passionate arts coverage that grew to become a beloved entity in its own right. Paste Media acquired the A.V. Club in 2024, pledging to provide a supportive home for the some of the web’s best writing on TV, films, music, videogames, books and more. We’re proud to carry on the tradition of people immersed in pop culture and entertainment media to a somewhat obsessive degree.
Who Is Behind the A.V. Club?
Editor-in-Chief: TBD, email
Features Editor: Jennifer Lennon, Email
TV Editor: Tim Lowery, Email
Film Editor: Jacob Oller, Email | Twitter
Associate Editor: Cindy White, Email | Twitter
News Editor: Drew Gillis, Email | Twitter
Staff Writers:
Mary Kate Carr, Email
Saloni Gajjar, Email | Twitter
William Hughes, Email | Twitter
Emma Keates, Email
Matt Schimkowitz, Email | Twitter
Publisher:
Josh Jackson, Paste Media, Email | Twitter
How to Contact Us:
Tips
Great Job, Internet! tips: [email protected]
Suggestions for AVQ&A questions: [email protected]
Publicists
Books publicists: [email protected]
Games publicists: [email protected]
Music publicists: [email protected]
Other
General reader comments: [email protected]
What is The A.V. Club?
The A.V. Club is an entertainment website, part of the Paste Media family of sites—including Paste Magazine, Jezebel and Splinter. You can view it online by directing your computing device to www.avclub.com.
What is your comment policy?
We love the comments section, along with the discussions and community they foster. We take the “club” aspect of our name seriously—it’s your site too. But here’s the deal: We strive to cover pop culture with intelligence and wit, and we assume that’s what brought you here. Abusive/offensive/obscene posts simply don’t contribute to that goal.
These are some of the things we find unacceptable:
• Flagrant attacks on other commentators, staffers, or interview / review subjects, particularly aggressive, insulting posts with no other point to make. Unacceptable: “You’re a dick!” Acceptable: “Only a dick would watch Con Air six times in a row!” Better: “You watched Con Air six times?! You should’ve taken IQ tests before and after to see how it affected you.”
• Offensive commentary on interview / review subjects, including but not limited to ad hominem thoughts on how they look, how they might smell, and exactly what you’d like to do to them in bed. Hate on their work all you want, but attacking them for their appearance is childish, and providing detailed commentary on your sexual reaction to them is, well, icky. If you did that at our party at our house, you wouldn’t be invited back.
• Racist, homophobic, or sexist remarks. Don’t assume that everyone else gets your sarcasm, irony, over-the-top tone, etc. Attack comments don’t get a free pass just because you “didn’t really mean it.”
• Blatant trolling.
• Blatant plugs for your own website.
• Offensive images or GIFs.
One more thing to keep in mind: We can’t be everywhere at once. You can help us maintain the quality of our community. If you see someone behaving offensively in the comments, contact us.
Be passionate, but be kind. Learn from each other. And remember there is an actual human being on the other end of the line. The comments work best when people do these things.
Didn’t you guys put out a book?
We’ve released three books under the A.V. Club banner. The Tenacity Of The Cockroach: Conversations With Entertainment’s Most Enduring Outsiders (2002) collects dozens of our best early interviews with the longtime survivors of the entertainment industry. Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, And 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists (2009) features some of our most popular Inventory lists, plus a variety of new lists that never appeared online. And Nathan Rabin’s My Year of Flops: The A.V. Club Presents One Man’s Journey Deep Into The Heart Of Cinematic Failure (2010) collects some of the most popular columns from Nathan’s My Year Of Flops feature, plus a ton of book-only content.