

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

Feb 15, 2024 • 50min
Jenny Croft - THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY
http://croftwork.net/about
BUY The Extinction of Irena Rey here :
https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/the-extinction-of-irena-rey-9781761380211
Or https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/extinction-of-irena-rey-9781639731701/
Gateway books / Authors
Anna Karenina
Witold Gombrowicz
Wisława Szymborska
Chekhov
Current Reads
How to be Multiple - Helena de Bres
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Gerald Murnane - Stream System
New Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars
Desert Island Books
Virginie Despentes - Vernon Subutex
Yiyun Li - Short Stories
Proust
Borges
Wisława Szymborska
Carl Philips - poetry

Feb 8, 2024 • 41min
Tania De Rozario - DINNER ON MONSTER ISLAND
https://taniaderozario.com/
Buy Dinner on Monster Island here:
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/dinner-on-monster-island-tania-de-rozario?variant=41057238417442&fbclid=IwAR1ODMgac7PZy7Hbjk5EL-pxIpKWcZfs06_kE0yRJ2_Nw-YeT8wKmwXQnHo
Gateway books
IT -Stephen King
Current reads/ Looking forward to :
The Hchom Book - Marian Churchland
Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco - by K. Ive
Big Mall - Kate Black
Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
Crush - Richard Sikin
Like a Seed with Its Singular Purpose- Cyril Wong
The Gospel of Breaking - Jillian Christmas

Feb 1, 2024 • 55min
Isabel Waidner - COREY FAH DOES SOCIAL MOBILITY
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
Buy the book here:
https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/corey-fah-does-social-mobility
@isabelwaidner
https://linktr.ee/isabelwaidner
Gateway books / Authors
Kafka
Goethe - Faust
Samuel Beckett
Dodie Bellamy
Kevin Killian
Robert Clark
Steve Abbott - The Lizard Club
Currently reading/Recently enjoyed/looking forward to
Hangman - Maya Binyam
Drive Your Plow… Olga Tokarczuk
New Olga Tokaeczuk
Adam Thirlwell - Future Future
Brontez Purnell - Ten Bridges I’ve Burned
Desert Island Books
Drive Your Plow
Corey Fah
Advanced Elvis Course - C.A. Conrad

Jan 26, 2024 • 1h 16min
Álvaro Enrigue - YOU DREAMED OF EMPIRES
Álvaro Enrigue
Buy You Dreamed of Empires here:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722363/you-dreamed-of-empires-by-alvaro-enrigue-translated-by-natasha-wimmer/
Gateway books
The Red and the Black
José Agustín - De perfil
Don Quixote
Current reads
Werner Hertzog - Every Man for Himself and God against All
Camila Sosa Villada - Tesis sobre una domesticación
Man, Play and Games - Roger Caillois
Desert Island Books
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Works of Juana Inés de la Cruz

Jan 23, 2024 • 23min
Kelly Sather - SMALL IN REAL LIFE
https://kellysather.com/
Buy Small in Real Life here:
https://upittpress.org/books/9780822947998/
Gateway books / Authors
Agatha Christie
Catch-22
Amy Hempel
Mary Robson
Alice Munro
Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson
William Trevor
Mavis Gallant
Currently reading:
Western Lane - Chetna Maroo
Nothing Special - Nicole Flattery
Claire Keegan - Foster
Ian Forster - Room With a View / Howard’s End
Desert Island Books
Virginia Woolf - To the LightHouse
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Joan Didion
Lucile Clifton - Poems
Paris Review - Author Interviews

Jan 19, 2024 • 1h 8min
Donald Nicholson-Smith - JEAN-PATRICK MANCHETTE
Donald Nicholson-Smith
Jean-Patrick Manchette
Books/authors mentioned
Léo Malet
Thierry Jonquet - Mygale
Didier Daeninckx - Murder in Memoriam
Upcoming works - B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown - Golo
https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1664
Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures - Yvan Alagbé
https://www.nyrb.com/products/yellow-negroes-and-other-imaginary-creatures
Fag Hag - Lola Miesseroff https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1501
Gateway books
Gregory Rabassa - If This Be Treason
Current reads
God’s Teeth and Other Phenomenon - James Kelman
Dorothy B. Hughes - The Expendable Man
The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber and David Wengrow
Desert Island Books
Shakespeare
Montaigne - Essays
Walter Benjamin
The Bible

Jan 12, 2024 • 32min
ULTRAMARINE - Mariette Navarro and Cory Stockwell
Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro - Translated by Cory Stockwell
@mariette.navarro
Buy Ultramarine from :
https://www.heloisepress.com/book/ultramarine
@cory_stockwell
Gateway books
Mariette:
The Odyssey
Moby Dick
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Albert Cohen - Belle du Seigneur
Madame Bovary
Cory:
Borges
Shakespeare
The Bible
Other books mentioned :
Percival Everett
Helen DeWitt - The English Understand Wool
Thomas Hardy - Tess
The Culture of Narcissism - Christopher Lasch
John Heldman - Imelda

Jan 5, 2024 • 1h 7min
Ali Millar - AVA ANNA ADA
https://www.alimillar.com/
https://alimillar.substack.com/
@ali_l_millar
https://store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/ava-anna-ada
reads
AnthologyCriticism
Greil Marcus - Lipstick Traces
Nigel Slater - Kitchen Diaries
Moby Dick
War and Peace

Dec 24, 2023 • 2h 47min
End of Year Special Part 5
Emmett Stinson
2023 Highlights
Wall - Jen Craig
Mircea Cărtărescu - Solenoid
Domenico Starnone - The House on Via Gemito
Vertigo - Amanda Lorry
Denis Johnson - Train Dreams
Dag Solstad - Novel 11 book 18
2024
A Bended Circuity - Robert S Stickley
Elfriede Jelinek - Children of the Dead
Alina Stefanescu
Andrei Platinov - Chevengur
Avner, Adam, Sarah
Zachery Solomon - A Brutal Design
Ravel: A Novel - Jean Echenoz
2666 - Roberto Bolaño
Hopscotch - Cortazar
The Instructions - Adam Levin
Past Continuous - Yaakov Shabtai
Gretel and the Great War: A Novel - Adam Ehrlich Sachs
The Material - Camille Bordas
Apastoral - Lee D Thomson
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma - Claire Dederer
Upcountry - Chin-Sun Lee
No One to Come Looking For You - Sam Lipsyte
Stella Maris and the Passenger - McCarthy
The New Naturals - Gabriel Bump
Winter Quarters: A Novel of Argentina - Osvaldo Soriano
Tomas Nevinson - Marias
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Domenico Starnone - Trick
2024
Christian TeBordo - We Go Liquid,
The Discord Regression
Jesse Ball- The Repeat Room
Jill Ciment - Consent
James - Percival Everett
Bristol Vaudrin - Afterward
Ben Tanzer - The Missing
Steve Almond - Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow
Sara Lipman and Seth Rogoff - Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible
Seth W.A.S.T.E Mailing List and Me
Best of 2023
Aannex - Blake Butler
A Bended Circuity - Robert S Stickley
Dolly City - Orly Castel-Bloom
Thomas the Obscure - Maurice Blanchot
Heart Crane - White Buildings
Saint Sebastian’s Abyss - Mark Haber
Wittgestein’s Mistress - Markson
Ada - Nabokov
Looking forward to :
Blue Lard and Red Pyramid - Vladimir Sorokin
New Mark Haber novel
Elfriede Jelinek - Children of the Dead
My Highlights of 2023
- Bret Eastern Ellis - The Shards
The new Cormac McCarty books
Morning Star - Knausgard
Roar by Bruce Wagner and Also The Marvel Universe.
Lee Klein’s Chaotic Good
Nefando by Monica Ojeda
Devil of the provinces by Juan Cardenas
Ava Anna Ada by Ali smith (out in Jan)
Malina
Water Statues
David Keenan’s England’s Hidden Reverse
Australian highlights Paul Delgarno’s a country of eternal light, Emmett’s book on Murnane and Late by Michael Fitzgerald.
Seth Rogoff’s book The Kirshbaum lectures, The two most recent Manchette books were great, Bariloche by Andres Neuman, The Kafka Diaries translated by Ross Benjamin, Voyager by Nona Fernandez, Paul Lynch Prophet Song.
Book of the year Man Eating Typewriter by Richard Milward
Daybook by Nathan Knapp
Forthcoming on April 26, 2024 Splice
In the Suavity of the Rock
by Greg Gerke
Forthcoming on June 28, 2024
Knausgaard’s debut novel - Archipelago in November - Out of the world
The Goldilocks Variations- Coover Deep Vellum November
Melvil Rodrigo Fresan – Open Letter July
Fog & Car
by Eugene Lim
Published by: Coffee House Press July
The Stain
by Rikki Ducornet
Published by: Deep Vellum Publishing
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press July
Commission of Tears
Portuguese Literature
by Antonio Lobo Antunes – APRIL
Sensitive Anatomy and Once upon Argentina April
by Andrés Neuman Open Letter
The Rachel Condition March
by Nicholas Rombles
Published by: CLASH Books
The Dark Side of Skin
by Jeferson Tenório – Charco Feb
Cesaria - by Hanna Nordenhok from Heloise
American Abductions
by Mauro Javier Cardenas
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Bad Foundations
by Brian Allen Carr
Published by: CLASH Books – Jan
Mahler Erasures by John Kinsella
Verdigris
by Michele Mari
Translated by Brian Robert Moore
Book of Ayn by Lexi Freiman -
Thomas kendall - HOW I KILLED THE UNIVERSAL MAN
David Leo Rice – The Berlin Wall
Jenny Croft The Extinction of Irena Rey - Feb
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel
Yoko Tawada
Ten - Juan Emar
And The Besieged City - Clarice Lispector
Way Far Away
by Evelio Rosero
Ed Park - Same Bed Different Dreams
Prey for the Shadow by Javier Cercas

Dec 24, 2023 • 2h 34min
End of Year Special Part 4
Part 4
David Leo Rice
New books in 2024
The Berlin Wall
The Squimbop Condition
Conclusion to the Dodge City series -
A Room in Dodge City Volume 3
Highlights of 2023
Adam Levin
Mount Chicago and Bubblegum and looking forward to the reissue of The Instructions
The Morning Star - Karl Ove Knausgård
Looking forward to The Wolves of Eternity
The Shards - BEE
The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy
The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut
Peace - Gene Wolf
The General of the Dead Army - Ismail Kadare
Patrick Modiano books
Pet Cemetery - Stephen King
2024
The Obscene Bird of Night - Jose Donoso
How I killed The Universal Man - Thomas Kendall
Inland - Murnane
Molly - Blake Butler
Other Minds - Bennett Simms
New Houellebecq
Same Bed Different Dreams - Ed Park
Youval Shimoni - The Salt Line / A Room
Merve Emre
K Patrick - Mrs S
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice - Cristina Rivera Garza
Catherine Lacey - Biography of X
The Rigour of Angels - William Eggington
Art Monsters - Lauren Elkin
The Man Who Cried I am - John A Williams
The Chapter - Nicke Dames
2024
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility - Isabel Waidner
Sheila Heti - Alphabet Diaries
Biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson Glad to the Brink of Fear- James Marcus
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins- Stefanos Geroulanos
How the World Made the West - Josephine Crawley Quinn
Alexis Wright - Praiseworthy
Monkey Grip - Helen Garner
Inland - Murnane
Something Speaks to me - Michel Chaouli
Odd Affinities
- Elizabeth Abel
Daniel Fraser
2023
Peter Levy - Poetry
A.V. Marrachini - We The Parasites
Maurice Blanchot - Kevin Hart
Hotel Splendid - Marie Redonnet
2024
Celan Letters to Gisèle
Obscene Bird of Night
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel - Yoko Tawada
See also Antonio Tabucchi Requiem
New Anne Carson book - Wrong Norma
Crisis Actor - Declan Ryan
Ada
Best book of 2023 - Making Friends 3 - Kristen Gudsnuk
Looking forward to in 2024 - Making Friends 4
Richard Milward
Best of 2023
Fingers Crossed Miki Berenyi
Ali Millar - The Last Days
Luke Turner - Men at War
Lolita - Reread
Irving Welsh - Trainspotting
Collected Alan Ginsberg
2024
Ava Anna Ada - Ali Millar
New David Keenan
Joel Gion - In the Jingle Jangle Jungle
Richard Foster - Flower Factory
Bram Presser
Columba's Bones: Darkland Tales - David Greig
Of Cattle and Men - Ana Paula Maia
Gibbons - James Morrison
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility - Isabel Waidner
Sebastian Castillo - SALMON
The Crane Husband - Kelly Barnhill
Philippe Claudel - German Fantasia
Vladimir Voinovich - The Fur Hat
The Confessions of a False Soul - Ilarie Voronca
The Strangers - Jon Bilbao
Max Porter - Shy
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain - Victoria MacKenzie
Study for Obedience - Sarah Bernstein
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
Biography of X - Catherine Lacey
Justin Torres - Blackout
Gone to the Wolves - John Wray
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers Guild - Enard
My Work - Olga Ravn
Marie NDiaye - Vengeance is Mine
Jenny Croft - The Extinction of Irena Rey


