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the sweet base for the alegría balls. I stuffed the roast while Teresa poured the cream over the dragon fruit and Tijuana mixed up the pumpkin seeds and amaranth with the honey and brown sugar.
    By the time I finally put the meat in the oven I was exhausted. Teresa gave Tijuana a long kiss and she slipped her hand into my shorts. I let her do it for a moment, but at last I decided it’s always better not to mix things up too much, so I went upstairs to get dressed. They stayed a while longer in the kitchen. When I came in for a glass of wine to take with me to sit down in the living room they were chatting.
    Everything turned out really well: we talked, we ate, we drank like gluttonous patricians. We sat over our coffee and brandy until very late, rendered every moment more civilized by the work that our excesses perform on the soft, pulpy flesh of our sad human lives.
    Teresa helped me to clean up afterward and then spent the night. In the morning I didn’t even offer her a cup of coffee.
    Mexico City—Washington, D.C.—Mexico City,
1996–2004

Á LVARO E NRIGUE was born in Mexico in 1969. He is an essayist, critic, professor, and the author of several novels and short story collections. His first novel La muerte de un instalador won the 1996 Joaquín Mortiz Prize. In 2007, the “Bogotá39” project named him one of the most promising Latin American writers of his generation.
    B RENDAN R ILEY has worked for years as a teacher, translator, writer, and editor. Among other works, he is the translator of Carlos Fuentes’s The Great Latin American Novel and Juan Filloy’s Caterva , both for Dalkey Archive Press.

M ICHAL A JVAZ , The Golden Age .
The Other City .
P IERRE A LBERT -B IROT , Grabinoulor .
Y UZ A LESHKOVSKY , Kangaroo .
F ELIPE A LFAU , Chromos .
Locos .
I VAN Â NGELO , The Celebration.
The Tower of Glass .
A NTÓNIO L OBO A NTUNES , Knowledge of Hell .
The Splendor of Portugal .
A LAIN A RIAS -M ISSON , Theatre of Incest .
J OHN A SHBERY AND J AMES S CHUYLER , A Nest of Ninnies .
R OBERT A SHLEY , Perfect Lives .
G ABRIELA A VIGUR -R OTEM , Heatwave and Crazy Birds .
D JUNA B ARNES , Ladies Almanack .
Ryder .
J OHN B ARTH , LETTERS .
Sabbatical .
D ONALD B ARTHELME , The King .
Paradise .
S VETISLAV B ASARA , Chinese Letter .
M IQUEL B AUÇÀ , The Siege in the Room .
R ENÉ B ELLETTO , Dying .
M AREK B IECZYK , Transparency .
A NDREI B ITOV , Pushkin House .
A NDREJ B LATNIK , You Do Understand .
L OUIS P AUL B OON , Chapel Road .
My Little War .
Summer in Termuren .
R OGER B OYLAN , Killoyle .
I GNÁCIO DE L OYOLA B RANDÃO , Anonymous Celebrity .
Zero .
B ONNIE B REMSER , Troia: Mexican Memoirs .
C HRISTINE B ROOKE -R OSE , Amalgamemnon .
B RIGID B ROPHY , In Transit .
G ERALD L. B RUNS , Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language .
G ABRIELLE B URTON , Heartbreak Hotel .
M ICHEL B UTOR , Degrees .
Mobile .
G. C ABRERA I NFANTE , Infante’s Inferno .
Three Trapped Tigers .
J ULIETA C AMPOS ,
The Fear of Losing Eurydice .
A NNE C ARSON , Eros the Bittersweet .
O RLY C ASTEL -B LOOM , Dolly City .
L OUIS -F ERDINAND C ÉLINE , Castle to Castle .
Conversations with Professor Y .
London Bridge .
Normance .
North .
Rigadoon .
M ARIE C HAIX , The Laurels of Lake Constance .
H UGO C HARTERIS , The Tide Is Right .
E RIC C HEVILLARD , Demolishing Nisard .
M ARC C HOLODENKO , Mordechai Schamz .
J OSHUA C OHEN , Witz .
E MILY H OLMES C OLEMAN , The Shutter of Snow .
R OBERT C OOVER , A Night at the Movies .
S TANLEY C RAWFORD , Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine .
Some Instructions to My Wife .
R ENÉ C REVEL , Putting My Foot in It .
R ALPH C USACK , Cadenza .
N ICHOLAS D ELBANCO , The Count of Concord .
Sherbrookes .
N IGEL D ENNIS , Cards of Identity .
P ETER D IMOCK , A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family .
A RIEL D ORFMAN , Konfidenz .
C OLEMAN D OWELL , Island People .
Too Much Flesh and Jabez .
A RKADII D RAGOMOSHCHENKO , Dust .
R IKKI D UCORNET , The Complete Butcher’s Tales .
The Fountains of Neptune .
The Jade Cabinet .
Phosphor in Dreamland .
W ILLIAM E ASTLAKE , The Bamboo Bed .
Castle Keep .
Lyric of the Circle Heart .
J EAN E CHENOZ , Chopin’s Move .
S TANLEY E LKIN , A Bad Man .
Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers .
The Dick Gibson Show .
The Franchiser .
The Living End .
Mrs. Ted Bliss .
F RANÇOIS E MMANUEL , Invitation to a Voyage .
S ALVADOR E SPRIU , Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth .
L ESLIE A. F IEDLER , Love and Death in the American Novel .
J UAN F ILLOY , Op Oloop .
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