I read him in Spanish. I was born in Buenos Aires but my family left when I was 4 and I've lived in the states since I was 7. I didn't really get into Argentine lit until I was an adult. Arlt felt like such a discovery. I still reread Los Siete Locos every couple of years.

Though harder to find, there are also bamboo bombillas.

I thought about including Arlt, but that seemed to border on hipster-y levels of obscurity. :)

And Borges and Cortázar and Gardel and Piazzolla…

Long-time mate drinker here. Just wanted to add a couple of notes.

I have to admit her Brief Lives, where she imagines the last days of various authors, was fun. That said, Beasts was the lamest not-quite rewrite of a Shirley Jackson novel I've ever encountered.

This week's offering seems less a "Failure" and more a "Hate Crime."

I'd totally contribute to a film adaptation of Diary, but only if they got Nicolas Cage in drag to play the main character. (Which is to say I got a big "Wicker Man" remake vibe from that book.)

Guts can be found in a book called Haunted. Palahniuk calls the book itself "A Novel of Stories" which is a way of trying to cover up that it's a fix-up novel. (That is a series of disconnected short stories with a framing story added to give the impression of cohesion.) The stories are sort of hit and miss, but as a…

Oh, like that Russell Brand movie?

The Bhagavad Gita?

It's called Molly now.

You're thinking of the British airmen in "The Dam Busters."

What's weirder, that this is the second time that Thorton has played James Carville or the second time that De Almeida (Latin Phil Hartman) has played the Bolivian president?

So, does Crankshaft have a cameo?

It is not a tumor
Put that cookie down
I'll be back

So you want him to Play Misty for [You]?

It's like the memory of a hair-do, and the memory is fading.

I believe you mean K Fried C…

The truth is, all those scenes that supposedly took place "in space"… they were shot in a movie studio! We're through the looking glass here, people!