These Things Come in Threes
JD Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, is dead at 91. He follows author/historian Howard Zinn, who died yesterday, and author Louis Auchincloss, who died on Tuesday. [NYT]
• The iPad may be cool and all. But don't expect it to revolutionize newspapers. Or magazines. Or even book publishing. [AdAge, NYT, Reuters, NYT]
• The WSJ is getting ready to take on the Times. Three dozen staffers (and $15 mil.) will go into creating its new NYC edition, which debuts in April. [NYO]
• NBC and Conan…
Louis Auchincloss, Chronicler of the WASP Ascendancy, 92
Louis Auchincloss, whose austere novels exposed and defined the cloistered world of white coastal privilege in which he was raised, has died following a stroke.
