Here’s a baker’s dozen of previous links from our front page.  Some might be a little stale by now, but all have a gooey filling of literary interest that make them worth visiting or revisiting if you tried them the first time around.  And yes, I would be a terrible baker.  Always count those donuts, folks.

~ Time Out interviews Paul Maliszewski, a connoisseur of and dabbler in plagiarism, hoaxery, and literary snake oils.  He’ll be reading in the store February 18th.

~ The classiest book you will ever read.

~ Arne Næss, your favorite Norwegian ecological philosopher, died this Monday at 96.  n+1 has reposted an essay on his legacy.

~ Hear Robert Frost’s recitation of two poems at Kennedy’s inauguration, one from memory and one, thankfully, aborted because he couldn’t read the page on which it was written.

~ Thank God for the long tail.  Scott Esposito talks to New Directions’ Declan Spring about running a small press under the storm clouds.

~ DC will be sold out of cupcakes. Not so our cafe!  Come watch the inauguration with us, fellow bookworms and tea-junkies, projected live and large in our cafe this Tuesday morning.

~ Matt Taibbi wants to see Thomas Friedman cry salty well-deserved tears into his silly porn-stache.

~ Bush and Cheney each plan to write memoirs highlighting some of the tough choices they were forced to make in office.  Don’t bother guys, I think this Harper’s Index sums it up pretty well.<

~ Verlaine, Rimbaud, and the lice they loved to share, all in an excerpt from Edmund White’s incredible new biography of the boy genius.

~ Morton Smith, Carpocrates, and the possible forgery that points to Christ the libertine magician.

~ When storytelling is survival, your vocabulary becomes sexy. Seed Magazine interviews Denis Dutton, author of "The Art Instinct".

~ The NEA says adults are reading more, particularly fiction. I guess that’s good news, though I’m unnerved to learn that there is anyone at all who doesn’t regularly read for pleasure.