Dear NPR’s Jim Zarroli, It’s true that New York recently passed a law explicitly requiring Internet companies like Amazon, with web affiliates located in the state, to collect sales tax from their New York customers, and that this law went into effect over the weekend. Nevertheless, the thesis undergirding your story — namely, the contention that “Until now, firms that . . .
The NYTBR asked Lorrie Moore, Junot Díaz, Gore Vidal, and others to recommend books for the U.S. presidential contenders. (Add yours here.)
On a 1930s Wifely Rating Scale, republished in the APA’s Monitor on Psychology, using slang or profanity alone nets you a motherfucking negative 5 points. (Via Crooked House; apologies if you already saw and laughed over this three weeks ago at Jezebel.) Overall, I probably score something in the neighborhood of -105. And for the record, Caitlin Flanagan, my grandmother . . .
The New Yorker’s summer fiction issue includes “Natasha,” a Nabokov story never before published in English, & much more.
In a move likely to hit neediest kids hardest, banks decline to extend loans to community college students.