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As loyal Paste readers know, our September issue featured stupendous profile of comic Zach Galifianakis, a "touching story" that is almost certainly the best piece of profile writing in the history of magazine journalism.

After the awkward press conference that became of last year’s Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association rolled out the expected nominees this morning for a show that is now guaranteed to draw all the names who shunned it last year.

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The Season 2 finale of Mad Men is set at the most imminently threatening moment of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The panic, rather than serving as the impetus for each brewing confrontation, invades the episode quietly, the characters behaving with a sort of eerie calm. It’s the moment before the bomb falls and they’re in search of redemption.

"Meditations in an Emergency," this past weekend's much-anticipated Season 2 closer of Mad Men, was rumored to be action-packed...inasmuch as the roguishly scrupulous AMC series could be. (Look for Paste's review of the episode later today.) The finale sneak peek on AMC.com casually drew taught of strings of season 2's many repressed conflicts—Don’s infidelity, Betty's mysterious health problem, the corporate future of Sterling Cooper, Pete's marital discord—while the ad men threw around optimistic suggestions about the expansion of the business, futures burgeoning with corvettes and financial independence. But the boyish banter cut short when Paul joked, "Why am I feeling sick to my stomach?"

King Harvest has surely come

Barasch has made a frame for the November-election madness, a book of poems to haunt history. For each president, a dream is conjured, soaked with biographical and historical details. A primitive ancestor to this book is William C. Bullitt and Sigmund Freud’s dour psychoanalytic portrait of Woodrow Wilson. Freud detested Wilson, and America as the land of Coca-Cola and Hollywood.

The best part of the rather stiff 60th anniversary Emmy awards show may very well have been Ricky Gervais reclaiming his statue from a stone-faced Steve Carell, but many an award was given out nevertheless. And to some of Paste's favorites too, including 30 Rock, Mad Men, The Daily Show, Entourage and John Adams. Peruse an extensive list after the jump.