Implication of this year's Nobel?

[Mark Kohut]

Since he wrote for and edited the Cambridge Companion
to Salman Rushdie, Rushdie will probably never win the Nobel.
He had dilettante-guessing odds whereas Gurnah never even had those.

But Rushdie coasted later in his career, all intensity spent,  it seems to
me. I saw
him phone in a book talk at a B & N Union Square in the oughts. I stayed
for it all,
including some of the book signing, where his disregard for fans was
manifested; all speed and efficiency-- and then, after going down the four
escalators,
ran into him and Padma Lakshmi--new wife in 2004---on the sidewalk.  They
had surely
gone via freight elevator to our appointment in samarra NYC.  No one
recognized them but
me and I said nothing. He was smiling like Happiness.