Monday morning subway reading placeholder

June 9, 2008

The to-do pile is toppling over, so the week’s blogging forecast isn’t great.

For now, I invite you to consider, in view of this photo I took on the subway last week (back in those halcyon days when the train was delayed but not altogether useless), a couple essays on reading that you may have seen earlier this year:

• Ursula LeGuin’s notes on the alleged decline of reading; and

• Steven Johnson on the “dawn of the digital natives.”