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This week from the political stew:

Gilbert Alter Gilbert writes on literary pets, from Flannery O'Connor’s peafowl to Virginia Woolf’s spaniel
Andrew McDonald presents a guide to watching Buffy and Angel post-TV
John Hillcoat directs the new Grinderman music vid, in which Nick Cave and co dress as centurions and shoot laserbeams out of their eyes
An oldie but a goodie: Anne Fadiman, Jonathan Lethem, Richard Posner, and others reveal what font they compose in and why
Sophie Cunningham and James Bradley discuss the experience of reading Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career on digital devices.
A look at the timeless covers of National Geographic
Rockin' Robin + Smells Like Teen Spirit = surprisingly awesome mashup
An early trailer for adaptation of Patrick White’s The Eye of the Storm, starring Charlotte Rampling, Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis. (Cheers to Lynden Barber for the link)
More on living through gaming: Earthbound: The Best Meta-Satire of 1994?
Viggo Mortensen and Amy Adams join cast for the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
Jonathan Franzen’s book trailer: ‘This might be a good place for me to register my profound discomfort at having to make videos like this’
And, finally, Lady Gaga’s Poker Face, as read by Christopher Walken

Which, in turn, in reminded us of this:

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