Beyond The Zero

Jen Craig  Highlights of 2023 Vigdis Hjorth - Is Mother Dead  Fleur Jaeggy - Sweet Days of Discipline  Annie Ernaux -   The Sitter -  Angela O’Keeffe Paul Dalgarno - A Country of Eternal Light 2024  Grimmish More  Vigdis Hjorth Fleur Jaeggy Lisa Robinson The Baudelaire Fractal The Tunnel - William Gass Collected Stories - Clarice Lispector  Cesar Aira  Martin Shaw http://www.thebooksdesk.com/ Highlights 2023 from Shaw authors : Jen Craig Pip Adam  Angela O’Keefe - The sitter  Other highlights  Tomas Nevinson - Javier Marias  Emily Perkins - Lioness  Looking forward to  Max Easton - Paradise Estate  Politica - Yumna Kassab  Lee Klein  Middlemarch Jane Eyre  Dracula  Silas Marner The Year/Tramp  Thomas Espedal  I Served the King of England - Bohumil Hrabal Travels with Charley - Steinbeck  Looking forward to  19th century Lit New Enard - The Annual Dinner of the Gravediggers Guild  Vernon Subutex  Molly - Blake Butler  Werner Herzog - Memoir  Have a Bleedin Guess -  Paul Hanley The Fraud - Zadie Smith  My Favorite Thing is Monsters Volume 2 - Emil Farris  We Go Liquid - Christian TeBordo  Kevin Kohn  Best books of 2023  Man Eating Typewriter - Richard Milward  All of Sergio De La Pava  2024  Percival Everett - James  Rodrigo Fresan - Melville  Adam Levin - The Instructions Bar Mitzvah edition   Ben Slotky  https://longleafreview.com/slotky/ Best books of 2023 Maurizio De Giovanni  Raymond Carver  Tim O’Brian - America Fantastica Flannery O’Connor  James Ellroy  Paul Dalgarno  Melissa Lucashenko - Edenglassie In Ascension - Martin MacInnes Salonika Burning - Gail Jones The Drivers Seat - Muriel Spark  Danielle Laidley - Don’t Look Away Boy Friends  - Micheal Pedersen  2024  Audition - Pip Adam The Sitter - Angela O’Keefe  Serengotti - Eugen Bacon Double Happiness - Rochelle Siemienowicz The Great Undoing Charlene Allsopp Diane Josefowicz https://www.dianejosefowicz.com/ New book L'AIR DU TEMPS (1985) James Rosewarne  top 10 from 2023  Thus Bad Begins- Javier Marias  Honoured Guest- Joy Williams  Mysteries- Knut Hamsun  Lewis Percy- Anita Brookner  Berta Isla- Javier Marias Interpreter of Maladies- Jhumpa Lahiri  La Lucina- Antonio Moresco  Professor Anderson's Natt- Dag Solstad  Trick- Domenico Starnone When I Was Mortal- Javier Marias  Three 2023 re-reads which were even more remarkable 2nd and 3rd time round.  The Dog- Jospeh O'Neill  Peace Talks- Tim Finch (I really can't recommend this one enough) Novel 11, Book 18- Dag Solstad  And the book I'm looking forward to most in 2024 is Tomas Nevinson by Javier Marias. 

Katia  Katia Nosenko  Neprosti (The UnSimple in the initial translation) by Taras Prokhasko translated by Uilleam Blacker.  It will be published in English by Harvard University Press as a part of “Earth Gods”: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Earth-Gods-Writings-Ukrainian-Literature-ebook/dp/B0CDSHL6JH/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_2?crid=24Y5W0P2AHREY&keywords=earth+gods+prokashko&qid=1701781407&sprefix=earth+gods+prokhasko%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-2-fkmr2 Shadow of forgotten ancestors by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky. The film by Sergei Paradjanov with the same title made in 1965. Stream System by Gerald Murnane The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire in translation by Louise Varese  Nadja by Andre Breton Man-eating Type Writer by Richard Millward Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Birthday and An Episode in the life of a Landscape Painter by Cezar Aira 10.Ava by Carol Maso 11.Room by Youval Shimoni translated by Michael Sharp 12.The Vivisector by Patrick White 13.The melancholy of resistance by Lazlo Kraznokhorkai  translated by George Szirtes 14.Tomas Neverson by Javier Marias translated by Margaret Jull Costa. 15.Austral by Carlos Fonseca translated by Megan Mc Dowell Look forward to: Shimmering details by Peter Nadas Tractatus Logicus by Wittgenstein: two new translations- by Peter Booth and by Damien Searls A thousand thoughts in flight by Maria Gabriella Llansol Salt Line by Youval Shimoni Daniel Davis Wood  https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/ Upcoming from Splice   - Nathan Knapp - Daybook (April 2024) Greg Gerke - In The Suavity of The Rock (June 2024) Highlights of 2023 Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger and Stella Maris and rereads of his other books  Mathias Enard - The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers Guild  Oli Hazzard - Lorem Ipsem  Luke Carmen - An Ordinary Ecstasy James Salter - Light Years  Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet  Amy Hempel - Collected stories.  2024 Recommendations  Blake Butler - Molly  Jean Baptise Del Amo - The Son of Man Marilyn Robinson - Reading Genesis  Rob Moody-Corbett - Hides (Breakwater Books June 2024) Iain Smith  2023 Highlights  Divine Days Leon Forrest  Ridley Walker - Russel Hoban Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor   Garden of Seven Twilights - Miguel De Palol  Obscene Bird of Night - Jose Donoso  Antagony  - Luis Goytisolo  Mercè Rodoreda - Death in Spring  The Combinations - Louis Armand  A Bended Circuity - Rob Stickley  White Dialogues - Bennett Simms  2024  Children of the Dead - Elfriede Jelinek Chevengur -  Andrei Platonov Peter Nadas - Shimmering Details  Resta kaòtica - Ventura Ametller Lies and Sorcery Elsa Morante  Marshland - Otohiko Kaga  The Mind Crimes of August  Saint - Alain Arias- Mission Jan Kjærstad - The Seducer  Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright  Invidicum - Michael Brodsky  Wild Horses - JORDI CUSSÀ The Forbidden Line - Paul Stanbridge Adam Biles - Feeding Time  Yuval Shimoni - The Salt Line Maidenhair - Mikhail Shishkin Guðbergur Bergsson - TÓMAS JÓNSSON, BESTSELLER Ali Millar  Best of 2023 Bret Eason Ellis - The Shards  Man Eating Typewriter - Richard Milward  Oliver Mol - Trainload  Ali’s book Ava Anna Ada is out From White Rabbit  A.V. Marrachini  Garden of Seven Twilights - Miguel De Palol  The Japanness in Architecture  10th Century Han Poetry  Hanging Out -  Sheila Liming Balzac  Sublunar - Harald Voetmann Mark A Henry  The Supply Chain - by Aaron Schneider  Late -  Michael Fitzgerald  Golem of Brooklyn - Adam Mansbach Pynchon Gravity’s Rainbow The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut  Peter Orner  Light in August - Falkner Tom Drury - The Driftless Area  Primo Levi - Moments of Reprieve  Taylor Johnson - Inheritance  Looking forward to reading  Virginia Woolf - The Waves Grahame Greene - The Power and the Glory  Black Paper - Teju Cole

Max Lawton  Notable books coming out in 2024  Blue Lard - Sorokin ND February  Red Pyramid - Sorokin ND February  Dispaches From The District Committee ND May  Other books mentioned  Washington Square - Henry James  The Shards - BEE My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh HERSCHT07769 - László Krasznahorkai Molly - Blake Butler  The Children of the Dead - Elfriede Jelinek Robin Myers  Books mentioned, published this year and forthcoming;  Love Training - Andrés Neuman  Bariloche - Andrés Neuman  We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (New Directions / Harville Secker, forthcoming) The Summer of the Serpent by Cecilia Eudave (Soho Press, forthcoming) The Trees by Claudia Peña Claros (Relegation Books, forthcoming) A Strange Adventure by Eva Forest (Sternberg Press, forthcoming) A Date With the Lady by Mateo García Elizondo (Charco Press, forthcoming) Restoration by Ave Barrera, co-translated with Ellen Jones (Charco Press, forthcoming) The Visit by Mariana Graciano (Alliteration Publishing, 2023) Free Radicals by Rosa Beltrán (Katakana Editores/Hablemos, Escritoras, 2023) In Vitro by Isabel Zapata (Coffee House Press, 2023) The Law of Conservation by Mariana Spada (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023) The Brush by Eliana Hernández Pachón (Archipelago Books, forthcoming) Best books of 2023 and looking forward to  January By Sara GallardoTranslated by Frances Riddle and Maureen Shaughnessy Recital of the Dark Verses by Luis Felipe Fabre This Little Art - Kate Briggs  The Longform - Kate Briggs  2024  - The Extinction of Irena Rey - Jenny Croft  Traces of Enayat - Iman Mersal Michael Winkler   Highlights 2023 Michelle de Kretser A Horse At Night - Amina Cain Vehicle - Jen Calleja  Wednesday’s Child - Yiyun Li Gibbons - James Morrison  Judas Boys - Joel Dean  James Hannaham - Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta  James Kelman - God's Teeth and Other Phenomena Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright  Bird - Adam Morris  August Blue -  Deborah Levy Childhood - Shannon Burns  I’d Rather Not - Robert Skinner  Kick The Latch - Kathryn Scanlan 2024 Wayne Marshal - Henry Goes Bush Katerina Gibson - Debut Novel  Laura Elvery - New novel  Kylie Mirmohamadi - New novel  Sarah Krasnostein - Non fiction - High Country Murders  Travis Myer  If on a Winters Night a Traveller - Calvino  Tokyo Montana Express - Richard Brautigan Lispector - Passion According to G.H.  An Apprenticeship  Agua Viva Pessoa - Book of Disquiet The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut  Mount Chicago - Adam Levin A Bended Circuity - Robert S Stickley  Sunflower - Tex Gresham  Grimmish - Michael Winkler  Gass- Omensetter’s Luck  Ed Parks - Same Bed Different Dreams  Solenoid - Cartarescu A High Wind In Jamaica  Solarium - Braden Matthew  Oscar Submerges - Zach Tanner Ben Diamond  Best book  Anything That Moves - Jamie Stuart   Sarah Marie - Literal Nobody Best books of the year  Soldiers Hunters not Cowboys - Aaron Tucker Burr - Brooke Lockyer Love is a Place But You Cannot Live There - Jade Wallace  Most anticipated in 2024 - Bird Suit Sydney Hegele Zachery Issenberg  Red and the Black - Stendhal  Zone and Compass - Enard   We are a Haunting - Tyriek White Tour of the Black Clocks Steve Erickson  An Impossible Object - Nicholas Mosley  Carpentaria - Alexis Wright 2024  The Obscene Bird of Night José Dononso  Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright  Sean McCallum  Best books of 2023 Mark A Henry  The Honolulu Situation  A Naked Singularity - Sergio De La Pava  Conversation in the Cathedral - Maria Vargas Llosa  The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy 

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Sam Lipsyte  Buy No One Left To Come Looking For You here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/no-one-left-to-come-looking-for-you/18850055?ean=9781501146121 Gateway books / writers Thomas Pynchon  Donald Barthelme  Stanley Elkin  Tom McGunane Barry Hannah  Padget Powell  Ben Marcus  Moby Dick Philip Roth - Sabbath’s Theatre  Joseph Roth  Issac Babel  Tolstoy  James Joyce  Samuel Beckett Currently reading/recently enjoyed/looking forward to  Javier Marias - Your Face Tomorrow Trilogy  My Father’s Diet - Adrian Nathan West  Material - Camille Bordas (June 2024 Release) Desert Island Books  The Man Without Qualities - Musil  Collected Stories - Barry Hannah  Ulysses - Joyce  Collected Stories - Issac Babel  Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf  Jacob and his Brothers - Thomas Mann  Bernhard - Extinction  Paul Beaty - The Sellout 

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https://michaelsalu.com/ https://theredearthproject.org/ Get the book from : https://calamaripress.com/Red_Earth.htm linktr.ee/houseofthought Gateway books The Wretched of the Earth - Franz Fanon Great Expectations - Charles Dickens The Human Condition - Hannah Arendt The Brothers Kamarazov If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad  A Lover's Discourse - Roland Barthes Influential as a writer Confabulations - John Berger The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus Kindred - Octavia Butler The Literature Machine - Italo Calvino  Anne Carson  The Boxman - Kobo Abe The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison  Camera Lucida - Roland Barthes Derek Walcott Negrophobia - Darius James Denis Johnson - Jesus' sonDisgrace - JM Coetzee Currently reading: The Black Technical Object - Ramon Amaro MACUNAÍMA: THE HERO WITH NO CHARACTER, BY MÁRIO DE ANDRADE Nomenclature: New and Collected PoemsBook by Dionne Brand The Visitors by Jessi Jezewska Stevens Terra Amata by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

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The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach  Order from One World V https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737057/the-golem-of-brooklyn-by-adam-mansbach/ http://www.adammansbach.com/ Soundtrack by @defcee https://open.spotify.com/album/10RHdG5gi6jWhi1qAD7cFK?si=9P1RMU4tRVaRTvAmBN-Hgw\ Gateway books  The Pushcart War - Jean Merrill Treasure Island  Current reads  Lone Women - Victor Lavalle  When Crack Was King - Donovan Ramsey  The Talmud  Desert Island Books 2666 - Robert Bolaño  Rule of the Bone - Russel Banks  Subway Art - Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper