Beyond The Zero

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Jul 13, 2023 • 1h 47min

Lee Klein - Chaotic Good

Lee Klein https://www.litfunforever.com/about/ @leeklein0 twitter @lee.klein_ Instagram Buy Chotic Good here: @saggingmeniscus https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/chaotic_good/ Gateway Books Peter Pan. Where the Wild Things Are. The Big Book of Jokes and RiddlesBlack Stallion series. D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths. Gary Gygax (D&D)  Judy Blume’s ForeverNarnia/LOTRs (competitively read)Sherlock HolmesThe Bounty Trilogy (Mutiny on the Bounty)Count of Monte Cristo  Gatsby, Prufrock, The WastelandBorges (in Spanish)Crime and Punishment (2x)Narcissus and Goldmund   Steppenwolf, Demian, Siddhartha, Journey to the EastKafka storiesKerouac (Subterraneans, Dharma Bums, Big Sur)One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestFear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, The Doors of Perception, Island Another Roadside Attraction and Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five, Cat’s Cradle, Deadeye Dick)The Crying of Lot 49Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Stories by Terry SouthernThe Beat Reader – Burroughs, Corso, Ginsberg >> Blake  BelovedLight in AugustSee Under: Love (Grossman -> Bruno Schulz)Maus (graphic novels, Raw vols 1 and 2, Richard McGuire, Here)Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog/Adventures in the Skin Trade (Dylan Thomas) The Tin Drum, A Personal Matter, The Box Man, Carver, Steinbeck short novels, Hamsun (Hunger), Cheever stories, Auster, Beckett, Kafka, Handke, Artaud, Barthelme, Maupassant, Chekhov, TC Boyle, Philip Roth, Sontag essays, Ulysses, Moby Dick DFW essays, Mark Leyner, DeLillo, Moody, The Recognitions, George Saunders, Pnin, The Last Samurai, Bernhard, Sebald, Gogol stories, Salinger stories, Geoff Dyer, Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials)    War and Peace, Proust, Musil, Mann, Hamsun Bolano (Between Parentheses) Knausgaard, Rachel Cusk, Houellebecq, Enard, Gracq, Perec, Zweig, Grace Paley, Hrabal, Aira, The Waves   Currently reading Ute Av Verden, Knausgaard (in Norsk)  Reader’s Block, Markson Henri Cartier-Bresson interviews Ubik, Philip K. Dick Looking forward to Middlemarch, Trollope The Wolves of Eternity, KOK MJ Nicholls stories  Steinbeck (shorter novels)  The rest of Hrabal in English (four books) Cormac McCarthy (his first four books) BTZ-inspired purchases: Monument Maker (David Keenan), The Salt Line (Shimoni), The Logos (Mark de Silva), Traveler of the Century and How to Travel Without Seeing (Andreas Neuman), The Kindly Ones (Littel), Too Much Life (Lispecter), Kafka Diaries Recently read All of Us Together in the End, Matthew Vollmer Bang Bang Crash, Nic Brown All Dag Solstad in English (Novel 11, Book 18) All Tomas Espedal in English (Love, Tramp) I Served the King of England, Hrabal  The Belan Deck, Matt Bucher Annie Ernaux (Happening, A Man’s Place, I Remain in Darkness) Philip Roth (Zuckerman Unbound, Patrimony, The Facts, The Counterlife) The Magus, John Fowles Desert Island Books   The Birds, Tarjei Vesaas (Archipelago)Weight of the World, Handke  A Time to Live and a Time to Die, Erich Maria Remarque Garden, Ashes, Danilo Kis A Balcony in the Forest, Julien GracqA Musical Offering, Luis Sagasti (Charco, Fionn Petch)Atomik Aztex, Sesshu Foster (Grove Press)Amazons, Cleo Birdwell (DeLillo)A Time for Everything, KOK (Archipelago)Joseph and His Brothers, Thomas Mann (John E. Woods translation; Modern Library)  
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Jul 7, 2023 • 41min

Aaron Jacobs - TIME WILL BREAK THE WORLD

Aaron Jacobs  Time Will Break The World  https://www.aaronjacobswrites.com/time-will-break-the-world-1 Gateway books / Authors  John Bellairs  Edith Wharton - Age of Innocence  Private Parts - Howard Stern  Where I am Calling From - Raymond Carver  Portnoy’s Complaint - Roth  Henderson The Rain King - Bellow  A Fan’s Notes - Frederick  Exley  Current Reads/Looking forward to  White Cat Black Dog - Kelly Link  Foster - Claire Keegan  Tender Is he Flesh - Augustina Bazterrica  The Passenger /Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy  Hernan Diaz- Trust  Desert Island Books  Ulysses - Joyce  Underworld - Don DeLillo Song Of Solomon - Toni Morrison  Homeland - Sam Lipsyte  Complete Garielle Lutz  InnerTube - Hob Broun  Joy Williams - Quick and the Dead  Palefire - Nabokov 
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Jun 29, 2023 • 53min

Jen Craig - WALL

Jen Craig  Buy Wall from  https://puncherandwattmann.com/product/wall/ https://zerogrampress.com/2023/01/11/wall/ Currently reading/Looking forward to Annie Ernaux  Vigdis Hjorth Stendhal Country of Eternal Light - Paul Dalgarno  Angela O’Keefe - The Sitter
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Jun 29, 2023 • 55min

Thomas Legendre - SPRING FEVER

https://www.thomaslegendre.com/ Spring Fever is out now through Valley Press  https://www.valleypressuk.com/shop/p/spring-fever Gateway Books  Sherlock Holmes  Martin Amis - London Fields  Annie Proulx - Shipping News  Don DeLillo   Cormac McCarthy  Nabokov  Edith Wharton  Borges  Current Reads/ recently enjoyed/ looking Forward to  Burntcoat - Sarah Hall Patricia Dunker- Sophie and the Civil  Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick  Colson Whitehead - Crook Manifesto Alan Warner - Nothing Left to Fear From Hell  Elizabeth Lindsay Rogers - The Tilt Torn Away From The Seasons  Hoodwitch - Faylita Hicks  Headless John The Baptist Hitchhiking -  C. T. Salazar Desert Island Books  Middlemarch - George Elliot  Jayne Eyre - Brontë Collected Borges  London Field/House of Meetings - Martin Amis  Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy  Tristrom Shandy - Sterne 
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Jun 24, 2023 • 25min

Michael Gerard - AFTERALL

Michael Gerard  @39mgerard93 Gateway Books  Ethan Frome Edith Wharton  Tao Lin Taipei Current reads / Looking forward to  Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky Fantastic Fictions -  Sam Pink Shane Jesse Christmas - new book  Desert Island Books  Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton  E.E. Cummings - Collected works 
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Jun 21, 2023 • 32min

Joel Warner - THE CURSE OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE

Joel Warner - The Curse of the Marquis de Sade  https://www.joelwarner.com/ www.levernews.com Gateway books  Jonathan Harr - The Lost Painting  Current reads / recently enjoyed or looking forward  The Act of Oblivion - Robert Harris  Killers of the Flower Moon - David Gran  Desert Island Books  The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck  The Adventures of Cavilier and Clay - Michael Chabon  Middlesex - Jeffery Eugenides  Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
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Jun 15, 2023 • 50min

Priscilla Gilman - THE CRITIC'S DAUGHTER

Priscilla Gilman  https://www.priscillagilman.com/ @priscillagilman @priscilla.gilman Instagram  Gateway books  The Phantom Tollboth - Norton Juster Little Women - Louisa May Alcott Betsy- Tacy books Paddington - Michael Bond  Charlotte’s Web  Song of Solomon  Wuthering Heights   Great Expectations  Current reads/recently enjoyed/ looking forward to  Lone Women - Victor LaValle  Ann Beattie - new collection - Onlookers  Andrew Porter - The Disappeared  The Netanyahu’s - Josh Cohen  Desert Island Books  Norton Anthology of poetry  Collected Poetry - Wordsworth  Omnibus Jane Austen  To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf  Great Expectations - Dickens  Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles Riverside Shakespeare 
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Jun 1, 2023 • 59min

Alice Jolly - FROM FAR AROUND THEY SAW US BURN

Alice Jolly  http://alicejolly.com/wp/ @JollyAlice https://unbound.com/authors/alice-jolly Gateway books /authors  Graham Greene  E.M. Forster  Current reads / recently enjoyed/ looking forward to  House of Doors - Tan Tan Eng North Woods - Daniel Mason (Sept) Desert Island Books: The Chosen -  Elizabeth Lowry  Poems of R.S. Thomas  Return of The Soldier - Rebecca West  Light Years - James Salter  Shirley Hazard - The Great Fire  Omensetter’s Luck - William H Gass Last Exit to Brooklyn - Robert Selby Jr
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May 24, 2023 • 44min

John Wray - Gone To The Wolves

John Wray http://www.johnwray.net/ Buy Gone to The Wolves here https://bookshop.org/p/books/gone-to-the-wolves-john-wray/18789111?ean=9780374603335 Gateway books  Lord of the Rings Alice in Wonderland / Through The Looking Glass Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg - Ohio William S Burroughs  Current reads /looking forward to  Red Dragon - Thomas Harris  I’m With The Band - Pamela Des Barres La Capital - The Biography of Mexico City - Jonathan Kandell Biography of X - Catherine Lacy  Trust - Hernan Diaz  Desert Island books  Alice and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll Islandia - Austin Tappan Wright Collected Short Stories of Anton Chekov  The Palm Wine Drinkard - Amos Tutuola Ross MacDonald - Collection  Lincoln in The Bardo - George Saunders  Shirley Hazzard - The Transit of Venus  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce I Am Ozzy - Ozzie Osbourne 
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May 19, 2023 • 1h 28min

Paul Dalgarno - A COUNTRY OF ETERNAL LIGHT

Paul Dalgarno  https://www.pauldalgarno.com/ @PaulDalgarno Twitter  @narrativefriction Instagram  Gateway books  Trainspotting  Catch 22  How Late it Was, How Late - James Kelman  The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway  Also mentioned - Jenni Fagan  Current reads / Looking forward to  Dress Rehearsals - Madison Godfrey  Here be Monsters - Richard King  Wall - Jen Craig  Desert Island Books  Don Quixote  Hopscotch - Julio Cortazár Loitering With Intent - Muriel Spark  The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead  Too Much Lip - Melissa Lucashenko Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky  The Buried Giant -  Kazuo Ishiguro  Wuthering Heights - Brontë Frankenstein - Mary Shelly 

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