

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 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

Sep 11, 2024 • 1h 1min
Repost - Ross Benjamin - THE KAFKA DIARIES
This is a repost of my chat with Ross Benjamin
https://www.rossmbenjamin.com
Get The Kafka Diaries here
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612561/the-diaries-of-franz-kafka-by-franz-kafka/
Gateway books / writers
Asimov - Foundation Trilogy
Kafka
Joseph Roth
Dostoyevsky
Chekov
Sontag
Ralph Ellison
Richard Wright
Cynthia Ozick
Current reads / recently enjoyed /Looking forward to
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
Lydia Davis - Essays
David Means - Two Nurses Smoking
Fernando Pesoa - Book of Disquiet
Desert Island Books
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Stoner - John Williams
Dune - Frank Herbert
James. M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice/Double indemnity/Mildred Pearce
Keats - Complete Poems
Celan - Die Niemandsrose
Complete Shakespeare
The Idiot - Dostoyevsky
Kafka - Letters to Milena
The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmithth Ross Benjamin

Sep 5, 2024 • 51min
Susan Bernofsky - PAUL CELAN AND THE TRANS-TIBETAN ANGEL by Yoko Tawada
https://susanbernofsky.com/
Get the book from
https://www.ndbooks.com/book/paul-celan-and-the-trans-tibetan-angel/ in the US
https://www.dialoguebooks.co.uk/titles/yoko-tawada/spontaneous-acts/9780349704234/ in the UK
Gateway books / Authors
Robert Walser
Shirley Hazzard
Angela Carter
Barbra Comyns
Nabokov
Handke
Kobo Abe
Current reads/Looking forward to
The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk
Scholastique Mukasonga - Sister Deborah
Sayaka Murata - new novel
Samanta Schweblin
Yoko Tawada - Suggested in the Stars
Desert Island Books
Uwe Johnson - Anniversaries
Yoko Tawada - The Naked Eye


