Sundry links from around the Web:

• HarperCollins reports a decline in revenue of nearly 20% in the last quarter
• The Save Al Purdy’s House campaign has a website
• The race to digitize historic manuscripts is unearthing some odd specimens, The Wall Street Journal reports
• The tracks of U.S. poet Craig Arnold, missing in Japan since last week, are reportedly discovered
• Today is Thomas Pynchon’s birthday