On today's show: Our Underappreciated Literature Series takes a look at Roberto Arlt, an Argentine writer whose unconventional prose influenced Jorge Luis Borges and others. Also, a historian illuminates the rise and fall of ancient Persia, once a powerful rival to Greece and Rome. And a journalist documents a year in the life of a Midwestern high school marching band. But first, a writer for Condé Nast Portfolio shares the inside scoop on the recent sale of Daimler-Chrysler to shadowy Wall Street firm Cerberus Capital.