

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

Mar 17, 2023 • 1h
Richard Milward - MAN-EATING TYPEWRITER
Richard Milward
https://www.richardmilward.com/
Buy Man-Eating Typewriter here:
https://www.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/titles/richard-milward/man-eating-typewriter/9781399602013/
Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3aJgqfOTyIeA491ag7NhAr?si=058bc75e876941fe
Gateway books / writers
Alan Warner - Morvern Callar
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
Richard Brautigan
Kerouac
Hunter. S. Thomson - Naked Lunch
Nadia - André Breton
Nabokov
Pynchon
Current reads / recently enjoyed / looking forward
Charles Bukowski - Post Office
New American Poetry - 1945-1960
Ali Millar - The Last Days
Interviews with Francis Bacon - David Sylvester
Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History - Derek Sayer
Alex Danchev - Magritte - A Life
Desert Island Books
Lolita and Pale Fire - Nabokov
The Essential Ginsburg
Gravity’s Rainbow
Monument Maker - David Keenan
Mark Polizzotti - The Life of André Breton
Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 - Georges Bataille
Patrick DeWitt- The Sisters Brothers
The Giro Playboy - Michael Smith

Mar 16, 2023 • 42min
Christopher Bollen - THE LOST AMERICANS
Christopher Bollen - The Lost Americans
https://www.christopherbollen.com/
@christbollen instagram
@christobollen twitter
Gateway books/authors
Agatha Christie
Kurt Vonnegut
Sylvia Plath
Joan Didion
Current reads/ recently enjoyed/ looking forward to
Hernán Díaz - Trust
Fruiting Bodies: Stories - Kathryn Harlan
If I Survive You - Jonathan Escoffery
Desert Island Books
Graeme Green - The Quite American, The Comedians, Ministry of Fear
The Executioners Song - Norman Mailer
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
Allan Hollinghurst - The Folding Star
Agatha Christie - Then There Where None, Death on the Nile, A Murder is Announced
Joan Didion - After Henry

Mar 14, 2023 • 1h 19min
Andrés Neuman - BARILOCHE
Andrés Neuman
Buy Bariloche here:
https://www.openletterbooks.org/collections/andres-neuman
Currently reading / recently enjoyed /looking
The Care Manifesto
Las malas -Camila Sosa Villada
Armonía Somers
Mariana Enriquez - Alguien camina sobre tu tumba
Delphine Horvilleur - Living With Our Dead Ones
Partes de guerra - Jorge Volpi
Elena Garro - Los recuerdos del porvenir / Recollections of Things to Come
Yuri Herrera - Ten Planets

Mar 9, 2023 • 1h 23min
Oliver Mol - TRAINLORD
Oliver Mol
@trainlord
Buy the book here :
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/train-lord-9780241525074
ALSO BUY GRIMMISH
Gateway books
Henry Sugar - Roald Dahl
Tintin - Hergé.
Current reads / recently enjoyed / looking forward to
A Fan’s Notes - Frederick Exley
Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles
Willa Cather - My Ántonia
Robbie Arnott - Limberlost
Constance Debré - Play Boy
Cold Enough For Snow - Jessica Au
Mariana Enriquez - Our Share of Night
Desert Island Books
Alejandro Zambra - Bonsai
Train Dreams / Angels - Denis Johnson
Tove Jansson - The Summer Book
Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky
Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen
Battles in the Desert - José Emilio Pacheco
The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien

Mar 2, 2023 • 39min
Natasha Wimmer - VOYAGER by Nona Fernández
Natasha Wimmer
https://natashawimmer.com/
Buy Voyager by Nona Fernández here
https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/voyager
Currently working on:
Falsa Guerra — Carlos Manuel Álvarez
Álvaro Enrigue - You Dreamed of Empires
Gateway books
Nada - Carmen Laforet
Claudine novels - Colette
Norman Rush - Mating
Willa Cather - Song of the Lark
V.S. Naipaul - A House for Mr Biswas
Ben Lerner - Leaving the Atocha Station
Current reads /recently enjoyed
Enrique Krauze - Spinoza en el Parque México
Recollections of things to come - Elena Garro
Brenda Lozano - Loop
Catherine Lacey - Pew
Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez
Chilean Poet - Alejandro Zambra
The Body Where I Was Born - Guadalupe Nettel
Tomb Song: A Novel - Julián Herbert
Desert Island Books
To The Light House - Virginia Woolf
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
The Complete Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
Henry James - The Golden Bowl
Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
Javier Mariás - Your Face Tomorrow series

Feb 24, 2023 • 55min
Bruce Wagner
Buy Roar here:
https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781956763263/roar/
Bruce Wagner
https://www.brucewagner.la
Gateway books /authors
Jean Genet
Raymond Radiguet
Henry Miller
Hubert Selby Jr- The Room
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
Dickens
Current reads /recently enjoyed
Lincoln in the Bardo
Cause Unknown - The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths - Ed Dowd
Desert Island book
The Conference of the Birds

Feb 17, 2023 • 1h 19min
DBC Pierre - BIG SNAKE LITTLE SNAKE
DBC Pierre
http://www.dbcpierre.com
Buy Big Snake Little Snake here :
https://www.cheeriopublishing.com
Gateway books
Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall
On The Road - Kerouac
Gore Vidal - Duluth
Current reads/recently enjoyed/looking forward to
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Transylvania Trilogy - Miklós Bánffy
Grey Seas Under - Farley Mowat
Desert Island Books
Papillon - Henri Charrière
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay
Lila- Robert. M. Pirsig
The Complete Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova - Translated by Arthur Machen

Feb 12, 2023 • 1h 11min
Kate Evans - ABC Radio National
Kate Evans
@HistoryGirlKate
@RadioNational
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-bookshelf
Gateway books
Ethel Turner - Seven Little Australians
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Michale Ondaatje - The English Patient / In the Skin of a Lion
Kerry Hume - The Bone People
Current Reads / recently enjoyed /looking forward to
Audrey Magee - The Colony
Age of Vice - Deepdi Kapoor
A Day of Fallen Night - Samantha Shannon
Sebastian Barry - Old God’s Time
Salman Rushdie - Victory City
Laura McPhee Brown - Little Plum
Alexis Wright - Praiseworthy
Melissa Lucahshenko’ - Edenglassie
Margaret Atwood - Old Babes in the Wood.
Mai Phan Que Nguyen - Dustchild
River Sing Me Home - Eleanor Shearer
Kevin Jared Hosein - Hungry Ghosts
Arinze Ifeakandu - God's Children Are Little Broken Things
Becky Manawatu - Auē
Desert Island books
In the Skin of A Lion - Michale Ondaatje
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Pat Barker - Regeneration Trilogy
Peter Carey - Illywacker
Fiona McFarlane - A Son Looked down
A.S. Byatt - Possession
Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
Lousie Erdich - LaRose
Mick Herron - Slow Horses Series
Robbie Arnot - The Rain Heron

Feb 5, 2023 • 1h 1min
Ross Benjamin - THE KAFKA DIARIES
Ross Benjamin
https://www.rossmbenjamin.com
Get The Kafka Diaries here
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612561/the-diaries-of-franz-kafka-by-franz-kafka/
Gateway books / writers
Asimov - Foundation Trilogy
Kafka
Joseph Roth
Dostoyevsky
Chekov
Sontag
Ralph Ellison
Richard Wright
Cynthia Ozick
Current reads / recently enjoyed /Looking forward to
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
Lydia Davis - Essays
David Means - Two Nurses Smoking
Fernando Pesoa - Book of Disquiet
Desert Island Books
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Stoner - John Williams
Dune - Frank Herbert
James. M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice/Double indemnity/Mildred Pearce
Keats - Complete Poems
Celan - Die Niemandsrose
Complete Shakespeare
The Idiot - Dostoyevsky
Kafka - Letters to Milena
The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith

Jan 27, 2023 • 31min
Dawn Raffel - BOUNDLESS AS THE SKY
Dawn Raffel
https://www.dawnraffel.com
https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/boundless_as_the_sky/
Gateway books -
War and Peace
Grace Paley - Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
I Stand Here Ironing - Tillie Olsen
Flannery O’Connor
North American Review
The Quarterly
Current reads /Looking forward to
The Lighted Burrow: A Sanatorium Journal - Max Blecher
The Radezkey March - Joseph Roth
Moby Dick
The Jazz Palace - Mary Morris
The Kirschbaum Lectures - Seth Rogoff
Desert Island books
War and Peace
Metamorphosis - Ovid
A River Runs Through it - Norman Maclean


