Green with Envy
Over lunch I read Juan Villoro’s short story, “Mariachi,” which will be published in February in Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction (Dalkey Archive).
It. Is. Hilarious.
It’s not too rare that I read a story I wish I’d written myself–but I rarely wish I could steal it and put it in my own in-progress collection. Villoro doesn’t seem to have been translated into English much, but I’m hoping to find more.
March 5th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Hola, So glad to see this mention! You’ll find another hilarious story by Juan Villoro is my anthology, Mexico: A Traveler’s Literary Companion. He’s also been published in English in Tameme. http://www.tameme.org