Jim Shepard for Electric Literature on the subject of fiction based on non-fiction: “We need to bear in mind, as we’ve been told many times, that we’re working from, but not necessarily about, our lives.”

Lit.

• Edgar Allen Poe gets a real funeral. (Thanks, The Rumpus)

• On Vanity Fair’s website, take Proust’s Questionnaire and find out which celebrities you most resemble.

• Lev Grossman guest-posts for and on the National Book Critics Circle blog.

Film, a Quick Weekend Roundup

• What will we post about now that Where the Wild Things Are has finally been released??  The good reviews, for one thing.

• Unshockingly, Couples Retreat seems to be the worst.

• An Education, writer Nick Hornby’s new movie, came out this weekend and looks absolutely charming

Politics

• Christopher Buckley, Daily Beast columnist, “delivers a message from President Obama to the Nobel committee: Thanks, but no thanks.”

• “If not Obama, Who?”

Music

• Nick Cave, the “renaissance man of rock,” and former lover PJ Harvey sang an impromptu duet last night.

Misc.

• An American woman has won a Nobel Prize in Economics “for her analysis of economic governance.”