Literature: Saul Bellow, dead at 89

It's a bad year to be a brilliant Jewish author. We've lost Arthur Miller, and now Bellow. Geniuses.

"The backbone of 20th-century American literature has been provided by two novelists — William Faulkner and Saul Bellow," Philip Roth said Tuesday. "Together they are the Melville, Hawthorne, and Twain of the 20th century."