Jon Stewart hearts David Sedaris on The Daily Show

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Animal crackers

From time to time there are some lovely perks that come with working in publishing like the free bottles of Midori and the time I met Ita Buttrose but the most stand-out-awesome part is when you get to see an amazing movie before it's officially released or you get your hands on an advance copy of a novel of one of your favourite authors.

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk is a collection of animal-themed stories from David Sedaris. I flicked straight to the one called "Hello Kitty" which was about a group of animals at an AA meeting, in a prison. Argh, everything he writes deserves to be read immediately. So that's what I'm going to go do right now.