

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


