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Yes.

She's really prolific, but only a few things have made it over: these two collections, a few others (Immortal Love, Through the Wall), a novella (The Time: Night), and a collection of plays (Cinzano: Eleven Plays).
Just for context: in 1996 they published a 5-volume collected works edition in Russian.  So we have a lot…

Imma let you read "The Dependents", but "Lady with a Dog" is the greatest story of all time.  Of all time!

Ab-so-lutley.  It's one of my favorite kids movies, with great character design and energy… Although I'd cut out the songs ("Hawaiian Roller Coaster" is… ugh)  Still, very funny, very underrated.

I'm a fan.  She's definitely one of the most talented living Russian authors, although her style isn't always to my taste.  But at her best, and especially in short stories, she can be a knockout.

Is that one episode Rashomon-inspired because it deals with the consequences of rape and murder?  I'd watch that.

@avclub-b4238f7793ec8c1a632f14f2a1766c68:disqus : I'm not sure I disagree with any of that, only that it seems more conservative than forward-thinking: I've always read Bradbury as a kind of 19th century late-Romantic writer who had the misfortune to be born into a much later generation than the one to which he…

There are a whole bunch of us.  Maybe we should form a late-post posse that takes the RuPaul thread by storm after the midweek mark.

@avclub-4d3bac64f0fbcc90a6b5c82f09ea4418:disqus : well, there is the old joke that Poe's poetry was massively influential in languages other than English "because so much is gained in the translation."   It is true that his poetry had a greater impact on e.g. French and Russian poetry than English.

@avclub-b4238f7793ec8c1a632f14f2a1766c68:disqus : Oof.  Well, I won't begrudge you your enjoyment of Bradbury, and there are one or two stories of his I do like, but … father of postmodernism?  I don't even know how to evaluate that.  What do you mean by "postmodernism"?  I can't think of any conventional definition…

The last third of Arthur Gordon Pym is astoundingly good, and like @avclub-0f0d67e214f9fef69b278e3d08114da9:disqus , I highly recommend Mat Johnson's Pym, which is a hoot.

I'll up the ante: Jorge Borges is probably the most influential writer of the last 50 years, and never wrote a novel.

Bob Uecker as Willy Wonka!  Fantastic.

Added bonus: Liz's mini-Tracy is the kid from the fantastic Danny Brown video, "Grown Up".  That alone would have made my night, but there was so much greatness in the episode, it was just bonus points.

Luis Guzman as Sauncho!  Yes, please!

Ha!  That's exactly how I got through Ulysses, and with similar results. I'd failed two or three times, then packed it as my only English-language book on a summer abroad, finished it, and fell hard for it.

Hrm.  So Phoenix's turn in The Master is probably my favorite performance in years, but… I don't know if I see him as Doc Sportello.  Too brooding, maybe?  This was Robert Downey Jr.'s role to give away, unfortunately.

Huh.  Interesting to see such universal dislike of the book… It's my favorite English-language novel.  The Christmas eve vigil with Roger Mexico, the meetings between Pökler and his daughter, the way Slothrop dissolves into the text (sort of)… I couldn't love this book more if I tried.

the closing statements at their trial briefly turns a mockery of justice into a platform for articulate and far-reaching social critique.