

Beyond The Zero
Dick's Pizza Media
Weekly long-form discussions about books with authors, translators and critics from around the world.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Oct 15, 2024 • 59min
Anna DeForest - Our Long Marvelous Dying with Garielle Lutz
https://www.anna-deforest.com/
Buy Our Long Marvelous Dying here
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/anna-deforest/our-long-marvelous-dying/9780316567121/?lens=little-brown
Buy Garielle’s Backwardness here
https://www.hobartpulp.com/books/backwardness
Gateway books
Joyce
Beckett
Garielle Lutz - Stories in the Worst Way
Speedboat - Renata Adler
Current reads
How to read Lacan - Slavoj Žižek
How to Carry Water - Lucille Clifton
How To Disappear - Akiko Busch
On Giving Up - Adam Phillips
Backwardness - Garielle Lutz
Garielle’s current reads
Kafka diaries /letters
Desert Island Lutz
Phenomenology of Perception - Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Speedboat - Renata Adler

Oct 10, 2024 • 1h 15min
Esther Kinsky - SEEING FURTHER
Get the book from NYRB
https://www.nyrb.com/products/seeing-further
If you are in The UK it is out from Fitzcarraldo
https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/seeing-further/
Gateway books and authors
Kafka
Current reads /recently enjoyed
Aurelia, Aurélia - Katherine Davis
Sabrina Orah Mark - Happily
Desert Island Books
Kafka Letters and Diaries
Flaubert - Letters to Louise Colet and Madame Bovary
Maximus Poems Charles Olsen
John Burnside Poetry
Attila József Poems
Middlemarch
Chekov Stories
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson

Oct 8, 2024 • 1h 18min
Antonia Lloyd-Jones - THE EMPUSIUM by Olga Tokarczuk
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Get it in AUSTRALIA from https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-empusium-a-health-resort-horror-story
In the UK
https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/the-empusium-a-health-resort-horror-story/
In the USA
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725957/the-empusium-by-olga-tokarczuk-translated-by-antonia-lloyd-jones/
Gateway books
The Iliad and The Odyssey
Dostoyevsky
Chekhov
Currently reading;
Conversations with an Executioner by Kazimierz Moczarski
Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov
The Orphanage - Serhiy Zhadan
Stories
Bohumil Hrabal - Harlequin's Millions
Bacacay - Witold Gombrowicz
Tintin
Joseph Conrad - Short Stories

Oct 8, 2024 • 54min
Stephen B Shepard - SALINGER'S SOUL
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Salingers-Soul/Stephen-B-Shepard/9798888454725
https://www.stephenbshepard.com
Gateway Books
David McCullough - Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
Ron Chernow - Alexander Hamilton
Robert Caro
Virginia Woolf
John Updike
Currently Reading/Looking Forward to
Anna Karenina
Ron Chernow - Mark Twain
Desert Island Books
Virginia Woolf
Saul Bellow
Philip Roth
Bernard Malamud

Sep 30, 2024 • 1h 19min
Andrés Neuman - ONCE UPON ARGENTINA & SENSITIVE ANATOMY
Buy the books from the wonderful Open Letter;
https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/once-upon-argentina
https://www.openletterbooks.org/collections/new-forthcoming/products/sensitive-anatomy

Sep 28, 2024 • 1h 51min
A. Valliard - THE CITY OF LOST INTENTIONS
https://www.thecityoflostintentions.com

Sep 26, 2024 • 1h 39min
Will Evans
Will Evans
@willevans
@deepvellum
@dalkey_archive
https://www.deepvellum.org/
Gateway books / Authors
Maxim Gorky - Life of a Useless Man
The Alienist Caleb Carr
Bukowski
Russian Classics
Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavić
Blinding - Cartarescu
Carmen Boullosa -Texas
Current reads / Recently Read / Looking forward to
Undaunted Courage - Stephen Ambrose
Carl de Souza - Kaya Days
Priya Hein - Riambel
Upcoming - Thomas Pynchon
Desert Island books
Master and Margarita
Blinding - Cartarescu
Borges - Collected fiction
Flannery O’Connor - Collected Stories
Chekhov - Collected Stories

Sep 24, 2024 • 54min
M.L Rio - GRAVEYARD SHIFT
https://mlrio.com
Buy Graveyard Shift here :
https://bookshop.org/p/books/graveyard-shift-a-novella-m-l-rio/20974723?ean=9781250356796

Sep 19, 2024 • 1h 44min
Ottilie Mulzet - HERSCHT by László Krasznahorkai with Seth from W.A.S.T.E Mailing List
https://www.ottiliemulzet.net
By HERSCHT from
https://www.ndbooks.com/book/herscht-07769/
Gateway books / Authors
Alice Munro
Charlotte Bronte
Henry James
Emily Dickenson
Current Reads
The Cairo Trilogy - Naguib Mahfouz
Bílá Voda - Kateřina Tučková

Sep 12, 2024 • 1h 4min
Lee Klein - LIKE IT MATTERS
Lee Klein's website
https://www.litfunforever.com
Buy the book here
https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/like_it_matters
Notes
Recently read
Always Crashing in the Same Car: A Novel After David Bowie by Lance Olsen
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
The Third Realm by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Autoportrait by Eduoard Leve, Autoportrait by Jesse Ball, I Remember by Joe Brainard, Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
The Material by Camille Bordas (Colorin’ Colorado story on New Yorker podcast)
Percival Everett bender (Telephone, Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Pointier, Dr. No).
Looking forward to
Backwardness by Garielle Lutz (currently reading) – also The Complete Gary Lutz
Jose Trigo by Fernando del Paso and Ute av Verden by Knausgaard
The Red Handler by Johan Harstad (Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven)
Horse Latitudes by Morris Collins
Anxious Pleasures: A Novel After Kafka by Lance Olson
White Mythology by W.D. Clarke Much Ado About Everything: Oration on the Dignity of the Novelist by Gary AmdahlAnnihilation by HouellebecqStill need to get to The Fraud and the new Enard
Reread Dracula in October, finally read some Trollope


