Place your bets on the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.

• Esquire wants you to write 78 words of fiction.  If it’s good, you can go study with Colum McCann.

• Book Riot has launched.  We think it might be the future.

• Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk is officially a man without a religion.

• Tonight on Turner Classic Movies, an hour of Stephen King talking about horror movies.

• Over at Salon, Scott Timberg’s essay on the ” hollowing out of the creative class,” is the best and possibly most depressing essay on the arts that you will read today.  (But then again, who knows?)

• Andy Rooney says goodbye.

• Taking a look at John F. Kennedy’s Florida fallout shelter.