November 20
Thursday, 7 PM

The “Eminem of Chile” (New York Times), Fuguet is the leader of an international literary revolution called "McOndo," (a pun on Macondo, the fictional town in Garcia-Marquez’s classic "One Hundred Years of Solitude") that negates South America’s celebrated “magical realism” and instead focuses on the infiltration of American culture—beeping cell phones, blockbuster movies, Coca-Cola, "The X-Files" and of course, McDonald’s—into urban Latin American life.

"The Movies of My Life" is a riveting, and turbulent portrayal of the challenges and advantages of living between cultures. It banishes the stereotype of the Latino family living in the American inner city “barrio” and conveys Fuguet’s profound personal shifts within a middle-class bi-cultural, bi-continental family. Alberto Fuguet’s first book, "Mala Onda" ("Bad Vibes"), inspired one high school class in Chile to revolt against its literature curriculum. Fuguet is a contributing editor to the Los Angeles-based literary magazine, "Tin House." He currently lives in Santiago, Chile.