Here are some more links we’ve had recently on our front page.  That doesn’t mean they’ll be entertaining or anything, I suppose.  It’s not as if we were arbiters of all that is funny or worthwhile on the internet. (We are arbiters of all that is funny or worthwhile on the internet.) Stil, if you’re going to be clicking on things anyway, these things will do as well as any others.  Have at ‘em.

~ Emily Dickinson takes a stroll therough the uncanny valley.

~ Will Sheff of the band Okkervil River reads Tolstaya’s "Okkervil River" and all is right with the world. 

~ Here’s a short but enticing book trailer for a new anthology about money in relationships, "The Secret Currecy of Love". See Hilary Black and contributors discuss the book this Monday in our store.

~ Inger Christensen, one of the greatest European poets of our time, died last Friday.

~ We’ve taken the plunge and created a Facebook page.  Come scribble on our wall.

~ "If I don’t win, I won’t really mind not having the acclaim, it’s not getting the money that I will mind. Because I’m always terribly broke, and how wonderful it would be to get that lovely cheque". Diana Athill, who has indeed won the Costa Award and the accompanying check at 91, as interviewed in The Guardian.

~ Dr. Johnson turns 300 this year. To celebrate, Yale’s Beinecke library has started a word-a-day blog of words from his marvelous dictionary.  Today’s entry: a’fterwit.

~ Jessa Crispin has a long and wonderful interview with Clayton Eshleman, poet and translator of Vallejo among others, up in this month’s Bookslut. 

~ The latest issue of Words Without Borders features fiction by Indonesian women. One of the more interesting: "Maybe Not Yem" by Etik Juwita.

~ Here’s a recording of Amitav Ghosh reading from his new epic "Sea of Poppies."

~ Arthur Conan Doyle believed in voices from beyond the grave. Now hear his, along with Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin and others, all sounding more pompous and ridiculous than you could ever imagine.