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This Is Your Life on Books, and Other News

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  • The book lover’s dilemma, via Rena Maguire.
  • Merriam-Webster’s is movin’ with the times, incorporating such newfangled phrases as the hideous bucket list, 2010-ish game changer, mysterious robocall, belated mashup, usefulcrowdsourcing, unfortunate cyberbullying, and inevitable viral.
  • If Marx lived today, speculates one biographer, “he would be a compulsive blogger, and picking Twitter fights with Andrew Sullivan and Naomi Klein.”
  • Speaking of! Celebrate Easter (belatedly) by testing your knowledge of resurrections in literature.
  • Genius in literature: a handy-dandy chart.