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Despite “emotional testimony from retailers opposed to the plan,” a bill giving Amazon a 15-month exemption from collecting sales taxes advanced in the New Jersey state senate yesterday, according to… 1 / Read more »

The Battle of the Beards continues as the Star Tribune picks up yesterday’s glove and points out yet more overlooked beards. Add in a few reader suggestions and we were… 1 / Read more »

Books bound for Cameroon John Steinbeck suggests you quit writing Rethinking the Lolita cover The Terrence Malick / Marilynne Robinson connection On display: chapbooks from the 1950s Whitey Bulger’s “My… Read more »

Romenesko gets new details on a regular report issued by Howard Polskin’s “one-man research firm” The Tab Farm, which charts what passengers are reading on New York’s subways. (Or at least… 3 / Read more »