

Beyond The Zero
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Weekly long-form discussions about books with authors, translators and critics from around the world.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Aug 26, 2022 • 1h 5min
David Keenan - INDUSTRY OF MAGIC AND LIGHT
@reversediorama
Buy Industry of Magic and Light here;
https://www.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/titles/david-keenan/industry-of-magic-light/9781399603249/

Aug 25, 2022 • 43min
Adriane Howell
Adriane Howell
https://www.adrianehowell.com/story
@felinefelttip Instagram
@Adriane__Howell Twitter
Buy Hydra here https://transitlounge.com.au
Gateway books
R.L. Stine - Goosebumbs
Narnia books - Lewis
Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera
Lolita - Nabokov
DBC Pierre - Release the Bats
Current reads
The Sorrow of War - Bảo Ninh
Ru - Kim Thúy
Moon Sugar - Angela Meyer
Annihilate - Houellebecq
Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
The Old Drift - Namwali Serpell
Desert Island Books
Lolita - Nabokov
Ada - Nabokov
The Lover - Marguerite Duras
Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera
Leonard Cohen - Book of Longing
Nicole Kraus (any)
Deborah Levy (any)
Suri Hustvedt (any)
The Sexual life of Catherine M - Catherine Millet
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight - Alexandra Fuller

Aug 18, 2022 • 29min
Sadie Jones
@ThatSadieJones twitter
@that_sadie_jones Instagram
Buy Amy and Lan here -
https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/215706/sadie-jones
Gateway books
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Currently reading
A Town Called Solace - Mary Lawson
Tim Finch - House of Journalists
Desert Island Books
A Moveable Feast / For Whom The Bell Tolls
If Beale St Could Talk - James Baldwin
All of Shakespeare
All of Elliot
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
Never Let Me Go - Ishiguro
All of Narnia
Americana - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Aug 18, 2022 • 28min
Laura Vogt
Laura Vogt
Translated by CAROLINE WAIGHT
https://www.heloisepress.com/book/what-concerns-us
Gateway books
Malina - Inneborg Bachmann
Current reads
The Milkman - Anna Burns
Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell - Katherine Angel
Top 10 -
Malina - Inneborg Bachmann
Rachel Cusk - Transit
Maggie Nelson - The Argonauts
Virginia Woolf - A Room of Ones Own
Connie Palmen - Logbuch eines unbarmherzigen Jahres
Tomas Espedal - Against Nature (Imot naturen)
Chris Klaus - I Love Dick
Bernadine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other
Siri Hustvedt - The Blazing World
A Ghost in the Throat - Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Aug 16, 2022 • 42min
Michael Paul Kozlowsky
Michael Paul Kozlowsky
@MPKozlowsky
https://mpkozlowsky.com
Scarecrow Has a Gun is available here
https://imbrifex.com/book/scarecrow-has-a-gun/
Currently reading
The Unfortunates - B.S. Johnson
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
Hashtag Good Guy with a Gun - Jeff Chon
Finnegan’s Wake - Joyce
Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
The last taxi driver - Lee Durkee
Diary of Anne Frank
Top 10
Something Happened - Joseph Heller
1993 Was A Bad Year - John Fante
A Visit From The Goon Squad - Candy House
Ted Chiang - Exhalation /Story of Your Life
Times Arrow - Martin Amis
Mrs Caliban - Rachel Ingalls
Great Expectations - Dickens
Blood Meridian - McCarthy
Underworld - DeLillo
Infinite Jest - DFW

Aug 11, 2022 • 50min
Adam Levin
Adam Levin
https://www.adamlevinadamlevin.com
Buy Mount Chicago here
https://bookshop.org/books/mount-chicago/9780385548243
Gateway Books
Kurt Vonnegut - Harrison Bergeron and Slaughterhouse 5
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
Currently reading /recently enjoyed/ Looking forward to
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
Among the Thugs - Bill Buford
J.G. Ballard - Hello America
Kuput. - Curzio Malaparte (Also The Skin)
Laughter - Henri Bergson
Jesse Ball- Autoportrait
Sam Lipsyte - No One Left To Come Looking For You
Cormac McCarthy - Stella Maris / The Passenger
Desert Island books
Christian TeBordo - The follow up to the Apology
Jesse Ball - Follow up to Autoportrait
Adam Ehrlich Sachs - Follow up to Organs of Sense
Magnetic field - Ron Loewinsohn
Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century -Patrik Ouředník
Follow up to Twenty grand - Rebecca Curtis
Follow up to The People of Paper
Novel by Salvador Plascencia
How to Behave in a Crowd: - Camille Bordas
Gabriel Bump - The New Naturals
Sam Lipsyte - No One Left To Come Looking For You
George Saunders - Liberation Day
Helen DeWitt (next novel)
Cormac McCarthy - Stella Maris / The Passenger

Aug 9, 2022 • 50min
Blake Butler
Send us a voice message and we will play it on the show
https://anchor.fm/beyondzero/message
Blake Butler
https://blakebutler.org
@blakebutler
https://www.apocalypse-party.com/aannex.html
Gateway books
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
Infinite Jest - DFW
Currently reading /Looking forward to/recently enjoyed
Annie Ernaux
Cormac McCarthy - Stella Maris / The Passenger
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Josiah Morgan
https://amphetaminesulphate.bigcartel.com/product/b-the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-b-br-josiah-morgan
Carte Blanche
Brian Evenson
https://www.brianevenson.com
Denis Cooper
https://denniscooperblog.com
Top 10
Trilogy - Samuel Beckett
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers - Pierre Guyotat
With the Animals - Noelle Revaz
The Recognitions - William Gaddis
Thomas Bernhard - Extinction /Correction
Liveblog - Megan Boyle
https://store.nytyrant.com/products/liveblog-by-megan-boyle
Sutree - Cormac McCarthy
Molina - Ingeborg Bachmann

Aug 4, 2022 • 44min
Matty Markwood
Matty Markwood
https://www.reddit.com/r/ThomasPynchon/
@TheObliterature
https://linktr.ee/Obliterature
Gateway Books
Vonnegut (all)
White Noise - DeLillo
Borges
Melville - Moby Dick
Don Quixote
Faulkner (novels)
Hemingway
Currently reading
John Barth - Letter
Robert Coover - Pricksongs and Descants
W. Maxwell Prince - One Week in The Library
Looking forward to
Cormac McCarthy - New novels
Richard Powers- Goldbug Variations
The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead
You Bright and Risen Angles - Vollmann
Joyce Carol Oates
Zadie Smith
Top 10
Gravity’s Rainbow - Pynchon
The Recognitions - Gaddis
The Public Burning - Coover
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
Short stories - Kafka
The Sot-Weed Factor - Barth
Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut
White Noise - DeLillo

Aug 4, 2022 • 1h 8min
Matthew Spencer
Matthew Spencer
@unpaginated
https://paradisealmanc.substack.com
https://sublunaryeditions.com/empyrean
The Anecdotes of Heinrich von Kleist is available here
https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/anecdotes-heinrich-von-kleist
Gateway books:
Lord of the Rings -Tolkien
Kafka - A Country Doctor
Borges
Current reads
Miss Mackintosh My Darling
https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/miss-macintosh-my-darling
Anti-Oedipus
by Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze
Can XUE -Mystery Train
Top 10
Molloy - Samuel Becket
Ficciones - Borges
Nineteen ways of looking at Wang Wei - Eliot Weinberger
Old Rendering Plant - Wolfgang Hilbig
Energy of delusion/Bowstring- Viktor Shklovsky
Kafka - Complete stories
2666 - Bolano
Book of disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
Woyzeck - Georg Büchner
Vertical Motion - Can XUE

Jul 28, 2022 • 1h 23min
David Leo Rice
David Leo Rice
https://www.raviddice.com
@raviddice
@WakeIslandPod
https://anchor.fm/wake-island
Gateway books
Infinite Jest - DWF
The Illuminatus! Trilogy- Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami
100 years of Solitude - Marquez
Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
Magic Mountain - Mann
Sabbath’s Theatre / American Pastoral - Roth
Harold Pinter
The Open Curtain - Brian Evenson
Recent reads
Childhood of Jesus - J.M. Coetzee
Last Letter to A Reader - Gerald Murnane
Demons - Dostoyevsky
The Tenant - Roland Topor
Glassy Burning Floor of Hell - Evenson
Augustus - John Williams
Looking forward to
Lapnova - Moshfegh
Sleepwalk - Dan Chaon
A Perfect Spy - John le Carré
Trust - Hernan Diaz
Top 10
Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schulz
The Famished Road - Ben Okri
Absolom, Absolom - Faulkner
From Hell - Alan Moore
The Plains - Murnane
The Fifth Child - Lessing
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace From the Sea - Mishima
Sea Under Love - David Grossman
Stories - Stephen Millhauser
Jakob Von Guten - Walser


