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Oscar Wilde’s tombstone is getting a cleaning and, to the dismay of some, a barrier to bar the kind of rampant grave-smooching that’s been going on since the poet died in 1900. “We’re not saying, ‘Go away,’ but rather, ‘Try to behave sensibly,’” says Wilde’s grandson.

Dissident playwright, Velvet Revolution figurehead, and former Czech Republic president Vaclav Havel has died at age 75. A writer who decried the “political apartheid” under Communist rule, he was Czechoslovakia’s first democratically elected president.

Empire Falls author Richard Russo enlists top writers in questioning an Amazon program that gives discounts to those who use its price-check app at independent bookstores and notes that the “strategy has the potential to morph into a genuine Occupy Amazon movement.”

Bold, italic, sarcastic: Given how hard it is to convey intonation in text-based communications, a typographer has come up with the “Sarcastic Font”, “a typeface that renders sarcastic comments in reverse italic script.”

Sociologist Steven Tepper’s study of 805 US cases of conflict over art finds that “when people feel unsettled by the rate of social change … art becomes something that they fight over as a way to reassert their values.”

Chile’s Communist Party wants Pablo Neruda’s body exhumed to determine how he died. The legendary poet’s official cause of death is prostate cancer, but his assistant alleges that he was poisoned in 1973 on the orders of Augusto Pinochet.

“They look like large birdhouses and act like water coolers. But the sustenance stored inside the wooden, windowed boxes is a blend of knowledge and recreation.”