Odyssey Online

…okay I’m reading Atlantic this mid-day, but under the catchy title Is Holden Caulfield Still Relevant Alex Eichler links to and annotates a number of web-borne articles about Caulfield specifically and the late J.D. Salinger generally…it’s a substantive list…

…there has been some quick commentary on whether the newly-released iTablet, the omnivore progeny of the iPod, will be the end of the Kindle.  Megan McArdle at Atlantic provides an intelligent reflection on whether or not this will be the case. Other opinions vary:

• Why an iTablet Would Trounce Kindle DX
• Could Apple iTablet be an Kindle E-Book and E-Comic Killer
• iSlate, iGuide, iTablet: How Many Kindle-Killers Will Be Sold?
• In-App Sales and iTablet: The Killer Combo to Save Publishing?
• Steve Jobs Introduces the iTablet

Needless to say, Steve is betting on the iTablet.

…given the recent cold (and given I have a head-cold perhaps a’coming…) it’s a good time to be inside reading. Readers here (namely sniffling me) has just discovered the poet Heather McHugh.  To put is succinctly, she’s good, worth a read, try these:

• Eyeshot
• The Father of Predicaments
• Hinge and Sign: Poems 1968-1993
• Upgraded to Serious