{"id":63251,"date":"2013-12-04T09:45:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T14:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=63251"},"modified":"2013-12-04T10:37:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:37:24","slug":"people-are-angry-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/04\/people-are-angry-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"People Are Angry, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Norman-Rockwelllarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63252\" alt=\"Norman-Rockwelllarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Norman-Rockwelllarge.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"692\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2013-12-02\/amazon-rejected-by-u-dot-s-dot-supreme-court-on-new-york-sales-tax\" target=\"_blank\">The Supreme Court has spoken<\/a>: Amazon will pay taxes in New York.<\/li>\n<li>The family of Norman Rockwell is going to the mattresses over a new biography by Deborah Solomon, which raises questions about the artist\u2019s sexuality. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/03\/arts\/design\/rockwell-biography-angers-his-family.html\" target=\"_blank\">Says Rockwell\u2019s granddaughter<\/a>, \u201cShe layers the whole biography with these innuendos \u2026 These things she\u2019s writing about Norman Rockwell are simply not true.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In praise of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/books\/2013\/12\/bernd_brunner_s_the_art_of_lying_down_reviewed.single.html\" target=\"_blank\">writing while one reclines<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Eight prominent Dominican figures have written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latintimes.com\/articles\/10753\/20131202\/junot-diaz-dominican-enough-writers-question-loyalty.htm#.Up85go2f_Qx\" target=\"_blank\">an open letter<\/a> condemning the work of Junot D\u00edaz, who is currently visiting the Dominican Republic. They accuse the lauded writer of \u201ca scarce capacity for reflection and a disrespectful and mediocre use of the written word,\u201d and resent his self-identifying as Dominican.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has spoken: Amazon will pay taxes in New York. The family of Norman Rockwell is going to the mattresses over a new biography by Deborah Solomon, which raises questions about the artist\u2019s sexuality. 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