Efraín was one of my professors while he visited USC. His teaching, his books on Vargas Llosa, Borges, and Peruvian indigenismo, and his masterful essays, in particularly, "Considering Coldly . . ." (in New Left Review 15, 2002), have left a. profound influence on my writing. He will be missed.

It's great. (I just taught it in class and students loved it). But is it as characteristic a film noir as "Out of the Past"?

But getting on the Black Cat's naughty list might get you flayed!

Maybe its the start of your anti-British body horror novel.

Thanks so much for having me over. It was a lot of fun!

It would be a pleasure--though I have to be honest, I haven't watched the Netflix GGM adaptation. (If you feel that's important, I could give, the first couple of episodes, a look).

I guess it's an example of transculturation.

Mexican? Buffalo wings and pizza?

¡Gracias!

No, no las había visto.

At first I read Brigadoon instead of High Noon and was a bit surprised.

LREZ also sung in Spanish, but I think Nasty Sex is their best known song.

I think it’s great! Also part of the Y tu mamá también soundtrack.

But how can you not approve of this song?

Confío que mencione a las momias de los incas

I suspect book 20--Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea--is biographically/chronologically book 1.