

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

May 16, 2024 • 1h 25min
Mauro Javier Cárdenas - AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS
https://www.maurojaviercardenas.com
buy the book from :
https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/american-abductions
Current reads /looking forward to
The Pinochet File - Peter Kornbluh
Mónica Ojeda
Herscht 07769 - László Krasznahorkai
Gateway books
Correction - Thomas Bernhard
Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald
Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker
To The Light House - Virginia Woolf
Desert Island books:
Melancholy of Resistance
Collected Novellas of Bolano
Annotated Mrs Dalloway - with Merve Emre

May 9, 2024 • 2h 18min
Chris Via - LEAF BY LEAF
Chris Via
https://www.youtube.com/@LeafbyLeaf/videos
Gateway books and authors
Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson
Michael Crichton
Stephen King
Richard Laymon
Current reads, Looking forward to
Nexus - Noah Yuval Harari
Rachel Cusk new book
Herscht 07769 - László Krasznahorkai
The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk
Annihilation - Michel Houellebecq
Every Arc Bends Its Radian - Sergio De La Lava
The Instructions - Adam Levin
The New Testament - David Bentley Hart
The Tunnel - Gass
Benjamin Labatut - The Maniac
Pure Color - Sheila Heti
Desert Island books
Borges - Ficciones
Shakespeare
Iliad and The Odyssey
Complete Essays - Montaigne
King James Bible
Moby Dick
Proust - In Search of Lost Time
Ulysses - Joyce
Don Quixote

May 2, 2024 • 43min
Megan McDowell - THE OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT by José Donoso
https://www.meganmcdowelltranslation.com
Order here :
https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-obscene-bird-of-night/
Other books coming up from Megan in translation
José Donoso - La misteriosa desaparición de la marquesita de Loria - Coming next year
Mariana Enriquez - A Sunny Place for Shady People (SEPT)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757704/a-sunny-place-for-shady-people-by-mariana-enriquez-translated-by-megan-mcdowell/
Alejandro Zambra - Childish Literature (OCT)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737144/childish-literature-by-alejandro-zambra-translated-by-megan-mcdowell/
New Samanta Schweblin collection
Le fantôme de Truman Capote - Leila Guerriero
Other books mentioned:
Leila Guerriero - La llamada
La reina de las espadas - Jazmina Barrera (Upcoming translation from Two Lines)

May 1, 2024 • 51min
Adam Levin - THE INSTRUCTIONS BAR MITZVA EDITION
Adam Levin
Buy The Bar Mitzva Edition here:
https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-instructions-bar-mitzvah-edition?taxon_id=1
Other books mentioned
Camille Bordas - The Material
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737042/the-material-by-camille-bordas/
No Judgment - Lauren Oyler
Wild Houses - Colin Barrett

Apr 26, 2024 • 51min
Nathan Knapp - DAYBOOK
Nathan Knapp
https://nathanknappwrites.wordpress.com/
Buy Daybook here
https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/
Gateway books
Lord of the Rings
Notes From The Underground - Dostoyevsky
Fear and Trembling - Søren Kierkegaard
Annie Dillard
é Hill
Cormac McCarthy
In The Suavity of The Rock - Greg Gerke
Mauro Javier Cardenas - American Abductions
Adam Erlich Sachs - Getel and the Great War
Gabriel Blackwell - Comment Section
Desert Island Books
Dream Songs - John Berryman
Witold Gombrowicz - Diary
Emil Cioran - Anathemas and Admirations
Gathering Evidence - Bernhard
Norwood - Charles Portis
God's Country - Percival Everett
Sound and The Fury
Ulysses
The Moviegoer Walker Percy

Apr 19, 2024 • 1h 12min
Children of the Dead - by Elfriede Jelinek Featuring Dustin Illingworth and Gitta Honneger.
Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek translated by Gitta Honegger
Buy the book here :
https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780300142150
Part 1
Dustin Illingworth
https://www.dustinillingworth.com/
Other books mentioned -
The Obscene Bird of Night - Jose Donoso
Adam Erlich Sachs - Gretel and the Great War
Paul Celan And The Trans-Tibetan Angel Yoko Tawada
Mauro Javier Cardenas - American Abductions
Herscht 07769
https://www.ndbooks.com/book/herscht-07769/
Part 2
Gitta Honegger
Gateway books/authors
Albert Camus
Simone de Beauvoir
Arundhati Roy
Colson Whitehead - Harlem Shuffle, Underground Railway
James - Percival Everett
Thomas Bernhard - Correction
Wittgenstein
Mark Twain - The Awful German Language
https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html
Desert Island books
Thomas Bernhard - Correction
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Louise Erdrich

Apr 11, 2024 • 55min
Garielle Lutz - BACKWARDNESS
Garielle Lutz - Backwardness
Get the book here:
https://www.hobartpulp.com/books/backwardness
Recently enjoyed / Currently Reading / Looking forward to:
The Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Ditlevsen
James Salter
Janet Malcolm
Greg Gerke - The Suavity of the Rock
William Hazlitt
Virginia Woolf - Essays
Mice 1961 - Stacey Levine
Our Long Marvelous Dying - Anna DeForest

Apr 4, 2024 • 1h 3min
Ben Tanzer - THE MISSING
Ben Tanzer
https://www.tanzerben.com/
Get The Missing From : https://713books.com/forthcoming/
Gateway books
The Basketball Diaries - Jim Carroll
Cruddy - Linda Barry
Hairstyles of the Dammed - Joe Meno
American Skin - Don De Grazia
Meditations from a Movable Chair - Andre Dubus
Bastard out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
Torres
Currently reading and looking forward to
Sleeping with Friends - Emily Shultz
The Peer Effect - Syed Ali
Jacket Weather - Mike DeCapite
We Are Too Many - Hannah Pittard
Hanif Abdurraqib - There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Meditations from a Movable Chair - Andre Dubus
Excavatio - Wendy C. Ortiz
Naked - David Sedaris
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsBook - Chuck Klosterman

Mar 29, 2024 • 1h 10min
Robert Chandler - CHEVENGUR by Andrey Platonov
Robert Chandler
Buy Chevengur from NYRB
https://www.nyrb.com/products/chevengur
Gateway books
Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Currently reading;
Emily Dickinson
Dante
John Clare
Andrei Kurkov
Vladimir Sharov
Penelope Fitzgerald
D.H. Lawrence
Desert Island Books
The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
John Clare
Rudyard Kipling - Kim
Emily Dickinson
Dante

Mar 25, 2024 • 1h 14min
Kieran Goddard - I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING
https://www.hachette.com.au/keiran-goddard/i-see-buildings-fall-like-lightning
@keirangoddard1https://www.keirangoddard.com/
Gateway books
- Albert Camus - The Outsider
- Pablo Neruda - Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Jude The Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Currently Reading
- Édouard Louis - Change
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis - Nick Bano
Leslie Jamison - Splinters
Desert Island Books
- The Seven Story Mountain - Thomas Merton
-The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes - Jonathan Rose
- Happy Like Murderers - Gordon Burn
- Collected Poems - Elizabeth Bishop
- Collected Poems - Rilke
- D.H. Lawrence - Women in Love


