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"It began as a mistake": Should the second-most-famous postal worker in American history, poet, novelist, and barfly Charles Bukowski, whose best-known novel, Post Office, recounts how his alter ego Henry Chinaski "somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers," be honored with his face on a postage stamp? (Yes!) The founders of the Esotouric offbeat LA bus tours, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave, think so, and they've started an online petition for a Bukowski stamp to be issued on the 20th anniversary of his death in 2014. (Cooper, among other things, is also the author of one of the most awesome of the awesome 33 1/3 series, Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.)

"Do you have a handkerchief?": Herta Müller accepted her Nobel Prize for Literature on Monday, and her acceptance speech is live for reading on the Nobel site. It's about learning to write under the Romanian dictatorship, and it's very moving: "I reacted to the deathly fear with a thirst for life. A hunger for words. Nothing but the whirl of words could grasp my condition. It spelled out what the mouth could not pronounce."

Long-time reader, first-time caller: Penguin Classics debuts "Penguin Classics on Air," a twice-weekly show, "written and produced entirely by Penguin employees," on Sirius Satellite Radio.

Moving & shaking: Thanks to a limited time Lightning Deal offer today, the new pop-up edition of The Little Prince jumps to #2 on our Movers & Shakers list.