

Beyond The Zero
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Weekly long-form discussions about books with authors, translators and critics from around the world.
Episodes
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Dec 23, 2022 • 50min
Brendan Riley - ANTAGONY
Brendan Riley
https://brendanriley2020.wordpress.com/about/
Twitter @BPRileyCTSp2Eng
Buy Antagony here https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/antagony
Gateway Books
Ovid
D.H. Lawerence
Aldus Huxley
Lauren Eisley
Peter Matthiessen
Michael Ondaatje
John McPhee
Gary Synder
Robinson Jeffers
Current Reads
London Fields - Martin Amis
Iain Sinclair - Down River
The Five - Hallie Rubenhold
Gary Snyder - The Great Clod
NeuroTribes - Steve Silberman
Literary Translations and the Making of Originals - Karen Emmerich
Desert Island Books
Collected Shakespeare
The Metamorphoses - Ovid
Moby Dick
Gary Snyders- Mountains and Rivers Without End
Collected Yates
Collected Borges
Cities of The Red Night - Burroughs
Absolom Absolom -
Dickens - Our Mutual Friend.

Dec 22, 2022 • 1h 42min
End of Year Special part 2
Due to character limits full show notes are available here
https://beyondthezeropodcast.substack.com/p/show-notes-end-of-year-special?sd=pf
and limited notes are below
Gabriel Blackwell and Elijah Moss
Gabriel’s Highlights:
Elfriede Jelinek - Greed
Dog Solstadt’s Armand V
Jon Fosse - Septology
All of Jon Fosse’s Fiction - Boathouse, Alas at the Fire
Hélène Gaudy- A World Without no Shore
The Observant - Ravi Mangla
Adam McComber- Fantasy Kit
Elijah Moss:
Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
2666 - Bolano
The Tunnel - Gass
Laughter in the Dark - Nabokov
Ulysses - Joyce
Age of Wire and String - Ben Marcus -
Rilke - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Letter of Humanism by Heidegger
John Hawkes - The Cannibal, The Lime Twig,
City of Glass - Paul Auster
Gabriel Looking Forward to:
Kathryn Gammon - The Martyrs The Lovers
Jenn Craig’s Wall
Miss Macintosh My Darling
Elijah Looking forward to
Clarice Lispector - Complete Collection
Infinite Jest
The Combinations by Louis Armand
Middle C by William H Gass (reread)
Gravity’s Rainbow
Iain Smith
Best Reads from 2022
The Logos by Mark De Silva
Waypoint - By Adam Ouston
St Sebastians Abyss - Mark Haber
Rodrigo Fresan (the Remembered Part)
Antagony - Goytisolo
Doomtown by Gabriel Blackwell
Mount Chicago by Adam Levin
Solenoid Cartarescu
Others (non 2022)
Bubblegum by Adam Levin
Monument Maker David Keenan
2023 Looking Forward To
The Garden of the Seven Twilights by Miquel de Palol
Summa Kaotica by Ventura Amettler
Marshland - Otohiko Kaga (trans, Albert Novac) - 960 pages
The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier
Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante (NYRB July next year)
Michael Winkler
Grimmish out in America through Coachhouse and in the UK through Peninsula in 2023
Highlights;
Ryan O’Connor - The Voids
Trainlord - Oliver Mol
Hold your Fire Chloe Wilson
She is Haunted - Paige Clarke
Beth Spencer - The Age of Fibs
Adam Ouston - Waypoints
Ben Walter - What Fear Was
Limberlost - Robbie Arnott
2023 looking forward to
Prince Harry
Wall - Jen Craig
Robert Skinner - I’d Rather Not
Avner Landes
Highlights
Curzio Malaparte - The Skin
Looking forward to
Tomas Nevison - Javier Marias

Dec 15, 2022 • 50min
Jerry Stahl - NEIN, NEIN, NEIN
Jerry Stahl
@somejerrystahl
Buy Nein, Nein, Nein from:
https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/nein-nein-nein/
Gateway books
Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr
Nathanael West- Miss Lonelyhearts
Bruce J Friedman - Stern, A Mother’s Kisses
Samuel Beckett- Watt
Celine - Death on the Instalment Plan
Roth - Portnoy’s Complaint
Current reads
Jonathan Ames - The Wheel of Doll
Bruce Wagner - Roar
Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Roth - Opperation Shylock
James Ellroy - The Storm /American Tabloid
Ada - Nabokov
Flannery O’Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find
Gravity’s Rainbow - Pynchon
Witz - Joshua Cohen
Nick Tosches - Dino
Desert Island Books
Weegee - Naked City
Diane Arbus - Untitled
Dante - The Inferno
Ulysses - Joyce
The Bothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
Gravity’s Rainbow - Pynchon
DFW - Collected works

Dec 8, 2022 • 1h 5min
Patrick McCabe - POUGEMAHONE
Patrick McCabe
Buy Pougemahone here https://unbound.com/books/poguemahone/
Gateway books
Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan
First Love Last Rites - Ian McEwan
The Ginger Man - J.P. Donleavy
Last Day of Summer - Ian McEwan
Current reads
Clive James - Sentenced to Life
Desert Island Books
The Bible - God ?
Ulysses - Joyce
High Windows - Larkin
Clive James - Sentenced to Life
Shakespeare - Shakespeare ?

Dec 1, 2022 • 47min
Megan McDowell - OUR SHARE OF NIGHT
Megan McDowell
https://www.meganmcdowelltranslation.com
@meganalimcd twitter
@meganamcdowell Instagram
Buy Our Share of Night here https://granta.com/products/our-share-of-night/
Gateway books
Jane Eyre
Great Expectations
Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe
Little Women
Hopscotch - Cortazar
The Wide Saragasso - Sea Jean Rhys
Bolano - 2666
The Book of Disquiet - Pessoa
Current reads
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
The Friend - Sigrid Nunez
Jawbone - Mónica Ojeda
Desert Island Books
The Neapolitan Novels - Ferrante
Bolano - 2666
Hopscotch - Cortazar
The Book of Disquiet - Pessoa
Necropolis - Santiago Gamboa
Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez
Chilean Poet - Zambra
Fever Dream - Samanta Schweblin
Beloved - Morrison
Louis Paul Boon - Chapel Road
What Belongs to You - Garth Greenwell

Nov 24, 2022 • 39min
Peter Orner - STILL NO WORD FROM YOU
Peter Orner
http://peterorner.com
@Peter_orner
Still No Word From You is available from
https://books.catapult.co/books/still-no-word-from-you/
Gateway books
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Invisible Man - Ellison
Ulysses - Joyce
Current reads - Javier Cercas - Anatomy of a Moment
Lydia Davis - (translation) Madame Bovary
Isaac B Singer - Stories
Desert Island Books
Edna O’Brian
James Wright
Eudora Welty
Absolom, Absolom - Faulkner
Isaac Babal
John McGahern
Mavis Gallant
Wright Morris
Chekov
Ellison - Essays
Giovanni’s Room - Baldwin

Nov 17, 2022 • 53min
Ben Slotky - AN EVENING OF ROMANTIC LOVEMAKING
Ben Slotky
Buy his book from Dalkey
https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/an-evening-of-romantic-lovemaking
Gateway books
Aberration of Starlight - Gilbert Sorrentino
James Ellroy - White Jazz
Kurt Vonnegut
Recently enjoyed
Comac McCarthy - The Passenger
The Tyranny of Algorithms - Miguel Benasayag
Desert Island Books
Aberration of Starlight - Gilbert Sorrentino
Maurizio De Giovanni - Commissario Ricciardi novels
Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir - Norm Macdonald

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


