Here is your mid-afternoon pop-culture pick-me-up, in two parts:

Part I: Lena Dunham’s book has a cover and a release date (October 7, 2014)! And there are no heels, lipsticks, or martini glasses on the cover. Well played, Random House, well played.

Now, say what you will about the show (I mostly love it and find 83% of the criticism to have an undercurrent of repressed if not completely overt sexism, but hey, knock yourselves out in the comments), but Dunham’s writing is brilliant. Beautifully paced, funny, poignant, candid. She’s never afraid to be a little bit pathetic, you know? To wit, have you read this piece about her gay ex-boyfriend in the New Yorker? I was laughing so hard reading it on the subway that the woman sitting next to me started talking to me about it and now we are real life friends. True story!

 It’s official. Coming 10/7/14. http://t.co/KnYwHHsKxC

— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) February 10, 2014

Part II: Karen O has released a duet of her Oscar-nominated song from Her (“The Moon Song”) with Ezra Koenig. It was lovely before, it’s even better with Koenig’s vocals.

And here is the ethereal score for the film, by Arcade Fire. This is a nice one to fall asleep to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijCcRWNwieg

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Just due to a few of the folks who appear in this video for Duck Sauce’s “Barbra Streisand,” it could be considered the most Jewish dance track of the year:  A-Trak, Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend, and well, Questlove could put any Jewfro to shame.  That’s pretty nasty personnel.

That’s not even taking into consideration the fact the track is named after Queen Jewess herself, and that it  a total banger.  So we’re gonna issue that award a few months before the end of the year.

The best part was we were hipped to it by The Atlantic.

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