Today is Philip Roth’s 80th birthday. So what do you give a guy who has everything (except the Nobel Prize in Literature) and is trending on Twitter? How about a roundup of some of today’s best online tributes.

• Byliner features three Roth profiles by David Remnick, Gary Shteyngart, and Joseph O’Neill
• A new PBS documentary suggests Roth’s retirement claims aren’t to be believed
• Mediabistro provides links to free ebooks by some of Roth’s favourite authors
• Take a $35 tour bus around Roth’s hometown of Newark, New Jersey
• Adam Gopnik sends his well-wishes
• The Observer wonders if we’ll ever see his like again
• Roth and the “great unmentionable” Nobel Prize