

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

Nov 11, 2022 • 50min
Thomas Kendall - The Autodidacts
Thomas Kendall
By the Autodidacts here:
https://whiskeytit.com/product/the-autodidacts/
@TPKendall
Gateway books
Dostoevsky
Yukio Mishima
The Atrocity Exhibition J.G. Ballard
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
Frisk/Try - Denis Cooper
The Book of Lies/Notebook trilogy - Ágota Kristóf
My Teacher is an Alien - Bruce Coville
Current reads
Olga Ravin - The Employees
Fernanda Melchor - Hurricane Season
Twilight Zone - Nona Fernández
What Are You - Lindsay Lerman
The New House - David Leo Rice
I Wished - Denis Cooper
Desert Island Book
The Book of Lies/Notebook trilogy - Ágota Kristóf
Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
The Recognitions - Gaddis
The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima
I Wished - Denis Cooper

Nov 1, 2022 • 1h 8min
Isabella Streffen - FABULAE
Isabella Streffen
https://www.isabellastreffen.com
@MinxMarple
Get Fabulae How it Begins here:
https://mabibliotheque.cargo.site/Isabella-Streffen-FABULAE-HOW-IT-BEGINS-2022
Gateway books
The Pillow Book - Sei Shōnagon
Selected Poems - Gerard Manley Hopkins
On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection - Susan Stuart
The Pleasure of the Texts - Roland Barthes
Current reads
Chimeras - Daniela Cascella
This agitated Air: Poems After Ibn Arabi - Robin Moger and Yasmine Seale
Swoop - Hailey Leithauser
Desert Island books
Marriage of Cadums and Harmony - Roberto Callaso
The Secret History - Donna Tart
Alphabet - Inger Christensen
The Gaze of Orpheus - Maurice Blanchot
If Not Winter; Fragments of Sappho - Anne Carson
Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research: In the Place of an Object: Special Issue (Jan 2000)
Aureole - Carole Maso
Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hal - Suzette Mayr
The Baudelaire Fractal - Lisa Robertson

Oct 27, 2022 • 54min
Sara Lippmann - LECH
Sara Lippmann
https://www.saralippmann.com
@saralippmann
Buy Lech here;
http://www.tortoisebooks.com
Gateway books
Maurice Sendak - In The Night Kitchen
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble - William Steig
Tell Me a Mitzi - Lore Segal
Bernard Malamud - Jewbird (short story
Goodbye Columbus - Philip Roth
Salinger - short stories
Jayne Anne Philips - The Black Tickets
A.M. Holmes -
Richard Yates
Grace Payley
Tilley Olsen
Jerry Stahl - Nein, Nein, Nein
Who By Fire - Matti Friedman
Human - Elisa Albert
Seth Rogoff - Thin Rising Vapours
Peter Orner - Still No Word From You
Desert Island books
Ulysses - Joyce
Magic Mountain - Mann
How to Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan
Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles
The Waves Virginia Woolf
Peter Orner - Am I Alone Here (+all the books he mentions)
Etgar Keret
Kent Haruf - Our Soles (Arseholes) at Night
James Salter
Sabbath’s Theatre - Roth
Marjorie Morningstar - Herman Wouk
Nicole Krauss- History of Love

Oct 21, 2022 • 46min
K Hank Jost - DESELECTIONS
K Hank Jost
Order Deselections here
https://whiskeytit.com/product/deselections/
@hank_being_a_better_ape
Listen to Spark Sputter and Die here;
https://linktr.ee/sparksputteranddie
@sparksputteranddie
Gateway books
The Bible
Stephen King
Vonnegut
In The Heart of the Heart of the Country
Current reads
All of Kafka
Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard
Snopes trilogy - William Faulkner
The Iliad
Desert Island Books
The Iliad
Ulysses - Joyce
Moby Dick - Melville
The Recognitions - Gaddis
The Complete Gary Lutz
The Caste - Kafka
In The Heart of the Heart of the Country - William Gass
Dorothy Allison - Bastard Out of Carolina / Cavedweller
Tristrom Shandy - Sterne
Breece D'J Pancake - Short stories
Stream System - Gerald Murnane

Oct 20, 2022 • 36min
Diane Josefowicz - READY, SET, OH
Diane Josefowicz
https://www.dianejosefowicz.com
http://necessaryfiction.com
@dianegreco
Buy Ready Set Go here ; https://www.flexiblepub.com/ready-set-oh
Gateway books
Gravity’s Rainbow - Pynchon
Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber
Rikki Durconet - Fountains of Neptune
Current reads
Stories of a Life - Nataliya Meshchaninova (Deep Vellum)
Desert Island Books
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë.
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Oct 12, 2022 • 1h 3min
André Forget - CITY OF PIGS
Andre’ Forget
https://andre-forget.com
@ayforge Twitter
@a.y.forget instagram
Order City of Pigs from https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459749085-in-the-city-of-pigs
Gateway book - The Arthuriad
Current reads
Monica Ali - Brick Lane
Maxim Gorky - The Life of Klim Samgin
Top 10
At Swim Two Birds - Flann O’Brian

Sep 22, 2022 • 49min
Jane Rawson
https://janerawson.com
@frippet
Buy A History of Dreams here
https://booktopia.kh4ffx.net/VyVgj6
Gateway books
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors - Piers Paul Read
Claudius The God - Robert Graves
Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Current reads -
Gentle and Fierce - Vanessa Berry
Twyborn Affair - Patrick White
An immense World - Ed Yong
Looking forward to -
Freya Maske - new book (sequel to a Marvellous Light)
Jessie Cole - new book
Top 10
The Light Years - Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
The Rift - Nina Allen
Dark Palace - Frank Moorhouse
Coming Through Slaughter - Michael Ondaatje
The Swan Book - Alexis Wright
The Captive Prince - C.S. Pact
Rubik - Elizabeth Tan
Aurora - Kim Stanley Robinson
Tender Morsels - Margo Lanagan

Sep 15, 2022 • 1h 20min
Eduardo Halfon
Show notes
Eduardo Halfon
@eduardohalfon instagram
https://blpress.org/authors/eduardo-halfon/
Buy Canción through Bellevue Press :
https://blpress.org/?post_type=product&p=5063
Gateway writers
Bolano
Cormac McCarthy
Hemingway
Carver
Cheever
Joyce
Kafka
Chekov
Current reads /looking forward to / rereads
Cormac McCarthy
Bolano
Top shelf
Savage Detectives - Bolano
Conversations in the Cathedral - Vargas Llosa
Augusto Monterosso
Rodrigo Ray Rosa
Cormac McCarthy

Sep 8, 2022 • 1h 5min
Marcus Pactor
Marcus Pactor
@MarcusPactor
Order Begat here :
https://www.astrophilpress.com
Gateway books
Vonnegut
A Feast of Snakes - Harry Crews
Carte Blanche
Gerald Murnane
Can Xue
Current reads / Looking forward to
Ezra Maas - Daniel James
The Human Mind - Angela Woodward
Decolonising the Mind - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Can Xue - new novella
Rikki Ducornet - new novella
Lance Olsen - Always Crashing in the Same Car
Top 10
Borges - Collected works
Beckett - Trilogy
Donald Barthelme - Stories
Padgett Powell - The interrogative mood
Kafka - Metamorphosis
Saul Bellow - Mister Sammler’s Planet
In The Lake of The Wood - Tim O’Brian
Gerald Murnane - The Plains
Trieste: A Novel - Daša Drndić

Sep 1, 2022 • 1h 40min
Avner Landes
Links for the Untranslated:
https://theuntranslated.wordpress.com/?s=un
https://www.patreon.com/andreispage
Preorder Solenoid - https://store.deepvellum.org/products/solenoid
W.A.S.T.E. MAILING LIST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZAZmzj4CkU&t=1002s
SEND US A VOICE MAIL anchor.fm/beyondzero
Feature interview -
Avner Landes
@AvnerLandes
Buy here
http://www.tortoisebooks.com/store/meiselman
Gateway books
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
My Life as a Man - Philip Roth
Pictures of Fidelman - Bernard Malamud
Raymond Carver
Donald Antrim
Leonard Michael
Sabbath's Theatre - Roth
The Dick Gibson Show - Stanley Elkin
Frog - Stephen Dixon
Current reads / Recently enjoyed /looking forward to
Bram Presser- Book of Dirt
A Death: Notes of a Suicide - Zalman Shenour Translated by Daniel Kennedy
Javier Marias - The Infatuations, A Heart So White
Helen DeWitt - Lightning Rods
A Public Burning - Robert Coover
Sam Lipsyte - No-one Left to Come Looking For You
Sara Lippmann - Lech
Christian TeBordo
Aaron Hamberger - Hotel Cuba
Top 10
Daniel Deronda - George Elliot
Red Cavalry - Isaac Babel
Dubliners - James Joyce
Passage from Home - Isaac Rosenfeld
Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
Life and Fate - Vasily Grossman
Lindmann - Book by Frederic Raphael
Frederick Exley - A Fan's Notes
Oreo- Fran Ross
Rituals - Novel by Cees Nooteboom


