If you only get around to your Christmas shopping around New Years', you might pick up The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies, a collection of essays like "‘The Big Lebowski' and Paul de Man: Historicizing Irony and Ironizing Historicism." [NYT]

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Let's face it, everyone's got a little bit of freak in 'em, and everybody knows somebody who's a crazy fanboy — or fangirl — even if the movie/TV show/band they're obsessed with is a little left of center. It's for those people that the Entertainment Earth catalog exists. If you're into Harry Potter, Dexter, The Dark…