

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 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

Mar 17, 2024 • 1h 44min
Clemens. J. Setz
Clemens. J. Setz
Clemens Podcast with Barbra Zeman https://open.spotify.com/show/37bbq41uotsGq4GfM09f9Y?si=24a23d7432ab4ef0
Gateway books / books and authors mentioned
Megan Boyle - Live Blog
Blake Butler - 300 000 000, Molly, AANNEX
Juliet Escoria
Scott McClanahan - The Sarah Book
Kenzaburō Ōe - Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!
Brutt, or The Sighing Gardens - Friederike Mayröcker
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware
Currently reading / Recently enjoyed
Heaven and Hell Book - Emanuel Swedenborg
Mary Ruefle
Christoph Ransmayr - Cox, Or, The Course of Time also new stories coming out.
Desert Island Books
Dictionary of the Brother's Grimm (Deutsches Wörterbuch)
Book of Psalms - Robert Alter

Mar 7, 2024 • 1h 6min
Max Lawton - BLUE LARD by Vladimir Sorokin
Max Lawton
@maxdaniellawton
By Blue Lard here
https://www.nyrb.com/products/blue-lard

Feb 23, 2024 • 1h 10min
David Cotner - A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (1973)
David Cotner
Buy A History of Violence (1973) here
https://www.ninebandedbooks.com/shop/book/a-history-of-violence-1973/
David's Instagram violencestories
Gateway books
- Orgies and Troilism
- Strangely Enough C.B. Colby
- A Void - Georges Perec
Current reads
Forgotteness by Tanja Maljartschuk
KIKI MAN RAY: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
- Mark Braude
Nick Solsby - Everything Keeps Dissolving
Maya Deren -Choreographed for CameraBook - Mark Alice Durant
- Norman Mailer - The Fight (Tachen Edition)
Desert Island Books
Alan Watts - The Way of Zen
Death of a Citizen - Donald Hamilton
Henry Miller - Reader
Treasury of David Runyon
Wittgenstein - Uncertainty
Norman Mailer - Cannibals and Christians
Psychotronic Encyclopaedia of Film
Latest Findings - Jaques Vallée
History of Underground Comics
Collected E.E. Cummings


