

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 21, 2022 • 47min
Brian Evenson
https://www.brianevenson.com
Gateway books / Authors
Edgar Alan Poe
Kafka - short stories
Gene Wolfe - Book of the New Sun
Complete Stories J.G. Ballard
Raymond Carver
Current reads/Looking forward to
Andy Davidson - The Hollow Kind
Attila Veres - The Black Maybe (forthcoming from Valancourt Books)
https://www.valancourtbooks.com/the-black-maybe.html
Dashiel Carrera - The Deer (forthcoming Dalkey Archive)
http://www.dashielcarrera.com/portfolio-pages/deer.html
Stanislaw Lem - The Truth and other Stories
Tender is the Flesh Agustina Bazterrica
In the Realm of The Dead - Uchida Hyakken
Top 10
Edgar Alan Poe - Stories
Kafka - Stories
The Plains - Gerald Murnane
Kathryn Davis - Duplex
Robert Aickman - Cold Hand in Mind
John Keene - Counter Narratives
Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Paul Bowles - Pages from Cold Point
Cormac McCarthy - Outer Dark
Dambudzo Marachera- The House of Hunger

Jul 14, 2022 • 48min
Dominique Christina
https://www.dominiquechristina.com
@nyarloka Twitter
@dominiquechristina Instagram
Gateway books
The Raven - Edgar Alan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Sylvia Plath
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Li-young Lee
Saul Williams
Edwidge Danticat
Current reads
The Corner - David Simon
Top 10
100 Yeas of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Beloved Toni Morrison
Mama Day - Gloria Naylor
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf - Ntozake Shange
Their Eyes are Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Dry White Season - Andre Brink
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah - Richard Bach
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction - David Sheff
Kindred - Octavia Butler

Jul 11, 2022 • 34min
Carmel Bird
Carmel Bird
http://www.carmelbird.com
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Buy it here or through your local independent book shop;
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Currently reading
With Love from Wish & Co. Minnie Darke
Top 10
The Aunts Story - Patrick White
Carpentaria - Alexis Wright
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain - George Saunders
The Journalist and the Murderer - Janet Malcolm
Lolita - Nabokov
Colour - Victoria Finlay
Coonardoo - Katharine Susannah Prichard
The Man in the Red Coat - Julian Barnes
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
Nobody’s Perfect - Anthony Lane

Jul 7, 2022 • 1h 3min
Zachary Tanner
Zachary Tanner
@piobald_puffpuff instagram
Coronasamizdat.com
https://zacharytannerbibliophile.art.blog
Fifi Mimieux
https://www.amazon.com/Fifi-Mimieux/e/B00O0GNTCG/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1
Gateway Books
Review of Contemporary Fiction
Against The Day
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest
Vollmann
Proust
Current reads /Looking forward to
Mansfield Park - Austen
Outlander series
Bottom's Dream
Carte Blanche
Vollmann
Pynchon
Miranda July
Top 10
Moby Dick
Proust - À la recherche du temps perdu
Jane Austen - Persuasion
Laura Warholic - Alexander Theroux (see Steven Moore's essay in A Fan's Notes)
V- Thomas Pynchon
Sot-Weed Factor - John Barth
Miss Mackintosh My Darling - Marguerite Young
J.R. - William Gaddis
Babel-17 Samuel Delany
Sanislaw Lem - Solaris

Jun 30, 2022 • 59min
Sebastian Vice
https://www.outcast-press.com
@sebastian_vice
Gateway books
Moby Dick
Goosebumps R.L. Stein
Kafka
Dostoyevsky
Minority Report - PKD
Chuck Palahniuk
J.G. Ballard - Crash
Current read
Thomas Ligotti
Ernest Becker - Denial of Death
Top 10
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Craig Clevernger - The Contortionist's Handbook
Agustina Bazterrica - Tender is the Flesh
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
Amy Hempel - Short stories (The Harvest)
Kafka - Short Stories (In the Penal Colony, The Hunger Artist)
Worm at the Core - Sheldon Solomon
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
Survivor Type - Stephen King
PKD - Short Stories
H.P. Lovecraft
Thomas Ligotti - Conspiracy Against the Human Race

Jun 24, 2022 • 1h 8min
Mark A Henry
@markahenrybooks
Buy Lacking Evidence to the Contrary from Amazon or your local independent bookstore.
https://www.riverbendbookshop.com
@RBBookshop
Curiosity and Co Jamestown Rhode Island
If you are in Jamestown here is your first clue;
The Treasure has passed through lands both free and afflicted through hands both worthy and not and it came to rest on Jamestown's shores entrusted to the care of Governor Carr's eternal watch.
For those of you who like spoilers I have added the video of Mark's treasure hunt at the bottom of the show notes.
GATEWAY BOOKS
Soup Series – Robert Newton Peck
Alvin Fernald Series– Clifford B. Hicks
Mad Scientists Club Series – Bertrand Brindley
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe C
ARTE BLANCHE AUTHORS
David Shafer
Jennifer Egan
Colson Whitehead
Bill Bryson
RECENT READS/TBR
Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr
The Candy House – Jennifer Egan
The Recalcitrant Stuff of Life – Sean McCallum
Any Day You Can Die – Tommy Waite
The Signal Line – Brendan Colley
Waypoints – Adam Ouston
US Army Survival Manual
TOP TEN The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
God Bless you Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
Jerusalem Quartet - Edward Whittemore
Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid – Bill Bryson
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer
Exit West - Moshin Hamid
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
Apartment - Teddy Wayne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8zGkR4GhrA

Jun 21, 2022 • 32min
Bonus Rick Harsch
https://coronasamizdat.com
Instagram @rick.harsch
@corona_samizdat
Gmail - Rick.harsch@gmail.com
Buy The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas here : https://zerogrampress.com/2022/01/26/the-manifold-destiny-of-eddie-vegas/

Jun 16, 2022 • 2h 5min
Daniel James
Daniel James
https://danieljameswriter.com
@danjameswriter
Substack
https://theliteratureofpsychosis.substack.com/
Buy The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas special edition now from Valley Press.
After you've read the book, find out more about Ezra Maas by visiting the following online resources. Just watch out you don't fall down a digital rabbit hole:
Ezra Maas Wikipedia page.
http://ezramaas-wiki.org
Maas Foundation website.
https://www.ezramaas.com
Gateway books
Fighting Fantasy series novels - Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone
Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers / Better Than Life - Grant Naylor (Red Dwarf)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Dracula - Bram Stoker
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Dubliners - James Joyce
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
Recent reads /Looking forward to
Montano’s Malady - Enrique Vila-Matas
Case Study - Graeme Macrae Burnet
The Hour of The Star - Clarice Lispector
Life on Other Planets - Matt Cook
Libra - Don DeLillo
Aftermath - Preti Taneja
The Third Hotel - Laura Van Den Berg
Top 10
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler / The Galton Case by Ross MacDonald
Collected Stories - Philip K Dick
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Eye of The Beholder - Marc Behm
Falling Angel - William Hjortsberg
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
Lanark - Alasdair Gray
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Collected Stories - Borges
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Also mentioned during the interview
The work of Mark Fisher particularly Ghosts of My LIfe and The Weird and the Eerie
The fiction of Marc Nash
Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism

Jun 10, 2022 • 1h 21min
Daniel Davis Wood
https://danieldaviswood.com
@danieldaviswood
@ThisIsSplice
thisissplice.co.uk
Buy Daniel’s books at www.booktopia.com.au
https://www.booktopia.com.au/at-the-edge-of-the-solid-world-daniel-davis-wood/book/9781922267009.html
Gateway books
The Sandman - Neil Gaiman
Dhalgren - Samuel R Delany
Lanark - Alasdair Gray
Current reads / looking forward to
Shakespeare
Russian classics
The Longcut - Emily Hall
Comac McCarthy - New books
Paul Stanbridge - My Mind to me a Kingdom is
Mark Haber - The Abyss of St Sebastian
Camilla Grudova - Children of Paradise
Edmond Caldwell - Human Wishes /Enemy Combatant
Top 10
The Plains - Murnane
Life and Times of Michael.K - J.M. Coetzee
Voss - Patrick White
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Absalom, Absalom - William Falkner
Melanctha - Gurtrude Stein
The Known World - Edward P Jones
Solar Bones - Mike McCormack
Moby Dick / Bartleby The Scrivener - Herman Melville

Jun 2, 2022 • 49min
Meg Tuite
Meg Tuite
https://megtuite.com
Buy White Van here;
https://megtuite.com/megs-books/#white-van
Books mentioned
Lithium - For Medea by Kate Braverman
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Gateway books / Authors
Flannery O’Connor - Collected works
Issac Bashevis Singer
Bernard Malamud
Shirley Jackson
Sylvia Plath
Anne Sexton
Thomas Wolfe
Fernando Pessoa
Dylan Thomas
Flann O’Brian
Bruno Shultz
Clarise Lispector
Lucia Berlin
Jean Rhys
Carte Blanche authors -
Dominique Christina
Ottessa Moshfegh
Melissa Pritchard
Eimear McBride
Also mentioned - Thomas James
Djuna Barnes - Nightwood
Olga Tokarczuk
Memories That Smell Like Gasoline - David Wojnarowicz
Olivia Laine -
Maggie Nelson
Emil Cioran
William R Soldan
Nabokov - Pnin
Marcus Pastor Begat Who Begat Who Begat
David Nutt - Summer time in the Emergency Room
Top 10
Bruno Shultz - Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling - Marguerite Young
Lidia Yuknavitch- The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
So What if it is True- Lorrie Jackson
Third Policeman Flann O’Brian
The Passion According to G.H - Clarice Lispector
Dominique Christina - https://www.dominiquechristina.com
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
Complete Gary Lutz / Worsted - Garielle Lutz
Ocean Veoung
Fernando Pessoa
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