• The very elegant Mark Sarvas appears on NPR’s Day to Day to discuss literary blogs at noon EST (and again at 3 p.m.).

• A Dorothy Parker musical? “If you don’t knit, bring a good book.”

• Jay Parini’s new Faulkner bio gets a respectful write-up in The New Republic. (Quote from the great Mississippi writer on being fired from the post office: “I reckon I’ll be at the beck and call of folks with money all my life, but thank God I won’t ever again have to be at the beck and call of every son-of-a-bitch who’s got two cents to buy a stamp.”)

• Jeanette Winterson (author of the unfortunate Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and the excellent The Passion and Sexing the Cherry) plans to open an Italian delicatessen in her home. (Via The Literary Saloon.)

• And while I’m on the subject of writers and food, did you know Sherwood Anderson died after “swallowing a toothpick in a hors d’oeuvre and contracting peritonitis”? (Via The Rake.)

• Yesterday I wrote a long post about French literary awards announced this week. WordPress ate it, so I offer only this: Laurent Gaude won the prestigious Prix Goncourt for Le Soleil des Scorta “an epic tale set in southern Italy.”

• The Whitbread shortlist has been announced.

• Found Magazine gets dirty. David Cross loves it.

• The Underground Literary Alliance, notorious challenger to the publishing establishment, is putting its members’ writing online.

• An early (and original) Jane Austen manuscript is online for your perusal at The British Library. (Via Scribbling Woman.)