

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

May 26, 2022 • 55min
Brad Kelly
Brad Kelly
https://www.bradkellyesque.com
https://artofdarkpod.com
@bradkelly
Buy House of Sleep
https://www.amazon.com/House-Sleep-Brad-Kelly/dp/B08SLGF4W1
Gateway books
Jack London - Short Stories (To Build a Fire)
The Dark Tower - Steven King
Stories of Franz Kafka
Jack Kerouac - On The Road
Current reads
Robert Aickman
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - PKD
Looking forward to :
A Season on Earth - Murnane
Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger and Stella Maris
Carte Blanche :
Cormac McCarthy
Don DeLillo
Rachel Kushner
Top 10
Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson
Meditations in Green - Stephen Wright
Labyrinths - Borges
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
Stoner - John Williams
New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Cities of the Red Night Trilogy - William S. Burroughs

May 20, 2022 • 36min
Ashley Goldberg
Ashely Goldberg
@ashg1305 Twitter
@ash_goldberg Instagram
https://www.ashley-goldberg.com/abomination
Gateway books
Goosebumps - R.L. Stine
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
Ray Carver - Cathedral
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
TBR pile/Recent reads
If You’re Happy by Fiona Robertson
Colin Barrett - Homesickness
Wendy Erskine - Dance Move
The War for Gloria - Gordon Lish
George Saunders - A swim in a pond in the rain
Jessica Stanley’s A Great Hope T
he Keepers - Al Campbell
Other Houses - Paddy O'Reilly
No hard Feelings - Genevieve Novak
Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls - Anne Casey Hardy
Carte blanche authors George Saunders Cynan Jones Jennifer Down
Top 10
Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
The Slave - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Rabbits for Food - Binnie Kirshenbaum
Stephen Florida - Gabe Habash
Manual For Cleaning Women - Lucia Berlin
Wake in Fright - Kenneth Cook
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness - Richard Yates
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Pugilist at Rest - Thom Jones
Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson

May 17, 2022 • 1h 27min
Cult of The Cactus Boots Anniversary Special
America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots; A Diagnostic
Written by Philip Freedenberg and Illustrated by Jeff Walton
Instagram ;
Phil
@cultofthecactusboots
Jeff
@matter_interacting
Order their book through Rick Harsch rick.harsch@gmail.com
https://coronasamizdat.com
Gold Edition
https://coronasamizdat.com/index.php?id_product=61&rewrite=limited-edition-gold-cactus-boots&controller=product
Books mentioned
Philosophy of Creativity - David Lee Miller
Rerelease from Corona Samizdat with illustrations by Jeff Walton coming soon.
Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas - Rick Harsch,
The Combinations, Louis Armand
Cairo - Louis Armand
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
Moby Dick - Melville
Animal Money - Michael Cisco
Infinite Jest - DFW
Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Gravity’s Rainbow - Pynchon
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L’Engle
Oskar Submerges - Zac Tanner
Wandering Stone - The Streets of Old Izola
Sunflower - Tex Gresham

May 13, 2022 • 49min
Jared Marcel Pollen
Jared Marcel Pollen
jaredmoiseul.wordpress.com
@JaredMPollen
Buy Venus and Document through
https://www.crowsnestbooks.com
Gateway books
1984 George Orwell
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
Current reads /recently enjoyed
Tom McCarthy - Making of Incarnation - (Carte Blanche)
Svage Detectives - Bolano
Top Ten
Gravity’s Rainbow - Pynchon
Humboldt’s Gift - Bellow
Philip Larkin- Collected Poems
Collected essays - Michel de Montaigne
Letters to a Young Contrarian - Hitchens
Sincerity and Authenticity - Lionel Trilling
Underworld - Don DeLillo
Sound and the Fury - Fawkner
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Also mentioned Inside Story - Martin Amis

May 6, 2022 • 57min
Brendan Colley
Brendan Colley
@brendancolley
The Signal Line is out now through Transit Lounge
https://transitlounge.com.au/shop/the-signal-line/
Gateway books
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
White Noise - Don DeLillo
Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
Current Reads
Lovers of Philosophy – Warren Ward
In Plain Sight -Ross Coulthart
Looking forward to
Ellen Van Neerven – Comfort Food
Scot Patrick Mitchell – Clean
Andrew Roff – Teeth of A Slow Machine
Adam Ouston – Waypoints
Robert Lukin – Loveland
Kirsten Arnett-Mostly Dead Things
Denis Johnson - Train Dreams
Stefan Zweig – Chess
Hemingway – A Movable Feast
Autobiograpy of Alice B Toklas – Gertrude Stein
George Saunders – A Swim in the Pond in the Rain
The Keepers - Albert Campbell
Blankets (Graphic Novel) - Craig Thomson
Icelandic tradition of book giving – Jolabokaflod
Top 10
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
White Noise - Don DeLillo
Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy O’Toole
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Sayaka Murata – Earthlings
Patrick DeWitt- Under Major Domo Minor
Don’t Skip Out On Me – Willy Vlautin
The Wanderers – Meg Howrey
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke

May 4, 2022 • 42min
Clarissa Botsford
Clarissa Botsford
@botsford_cla
https://clarissabotsford.com
https://www.heloisepress.com/book/thirsty-sea -Erica Mou’s book Thirsty Sea
Books mentioned
Sacha Naspini – Oxygen
Conchita de Gregori – The Missing Word
Mariolina Venezia – Matera Thrillers
Currently working on
New Sacha Naspini - Le Case De Malcontento
Oliva Denaro – Viola Ardone
Current reads and recently enjoyed
Vanda Symons - Faceless
Joyce Carrol Oates – Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars
Claudia Piñeiro – Elena Knows
Simone Buchholz – Chastity Riley
Meg Mason – Sorrow and Bliss
Louise Beech – This is How We Are Human
Abi Daré - The Girl with the Louding Voice
Bernardine Evaristo – Girl Woman Other
Richard Flanagan – The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Colson Whitehead – Underground Railway
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
Jeanette Winterson – Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

May 2, 2022 • 53min
Gabriel Blackwell
Gabriel Blackwell
@gabeblackwell
https://www.therupturemag.com
http://www.gabrielblackwell.com
https://www.thisissplice.co.uk
By Doom Town Here :
http://zerogrampress.com/2022/01/25/doom-town/
Gateway Books
Mysteries of the Unknown
Tales of the Cthulhu mythos - H.P. Lovecraft
Grove / New Directions publishing
Also mentioned - Against The World Against Life - Houellebecq
Carte Blanche Authors
Eliot Weinberger
-Marie NDiaye
Lawrence Weschler
Garielle Lutz
Brian Evenson
Lydia Davis
Current Reads / Looking forward
Jon Fosse - Trilogy / Septology
Dag Solstad
Barbra Comyns - Sisters by a River
American Stutter - Steve Erickson
Top 10
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa - by Jan Potocki
The Obscene Bird of Night - by José Donoso
Gertrude Stein - The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Castle - Kafka
William Gaddis - JR
Borges - Collected Fictions
William. H. Gass - Omensetter’s Luck
The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
Flann O’Brian - The Third Policeman
Proust - Swann’s Way translated by Lydia Davis

Apr 29, 2022 • 1h 8min
Chris Power
Chris Power
@chris_power Twitter
instagram.com/chrisjohnpower
Order A Lonely Man here
https://www.booktopia.com.au/a-lonely-man-chris-power/book/9780374298449.html
Gateway books
Lord of The Rings - Tolkien
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson
Carte Blanche
- Gwendoline Riley
-Rachel Cusk
-Katie Kitamura
-Fernanda Melchor
Current reads
The War For Gloria - Atticus Lish
Top 10
Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
2666 - Roberto Bolano
Moby Dick
Gathering Evidence - Thomas Bernhard
Villette - Charlotte Bronte
Mrs Dalloway - Woolf
Jude The Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Collected Chekhov
Party Going - Henry Green
In A Strange Room - Damian Galgut
Tomorrow In The Battle Think on Me / A Heart So White - Javier Marias

Apr 21, 2022 • 48min
Mark de Silva
Mark de Silva
https://mark-de-silva.com
@markdesilva1
https://www.thisissplice.co.uk
Order the Logos and Square Wave here :
https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/our-titles/phase-4/the-logos/
Gateway Books :
DESCARTES - MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY.
SCHOPENHAUER, ON THE SUFFERING OF THE WORLD
STEPPENWOLF, HERMAN HESSE
RECENTLY READ :
Middlemarch
Brothers Karamozov
A Fiery and Furious People, James Sharpe
CURRENTLY READING: Invisible Man--
A Philosophy of Madness: the experience of psychotic thinking--Dutch Philosopher Wouter Kusters
Future Reads: Jesus the Magician: Morton Smith, Columbia Historian
TOP 10
Blithedale Romance--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Growth of the Soil--Knut Hamsun (Life and Times of Michael K).
The Sleepwalkers, Herman Broch
Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias
Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
The Leopard, Giuseppie Lampedusa
Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
The Confidence Man, Herman Melville
Hyperion, Holderlin
Pushkin, Short Stories (Queen of Spades).

Apr 15, 2022 • 30min
Erica Mou
Erica Mou
http://ericamou.com
@ericamou
Buy Thirsty Sea from ;
https://www.heloisepress.com/book/thirsty-sea
https://open.spotify.com/album/3sQyHcF85hNSArNS3wKSZj?si=wPFFq4CITWayJ2SVnbbetA
On tour
UK events
https://www.waterstones.com/events/erica-mou-talk-with-live-music/canterbury-rose-lane
https://www.waterstones.com/events/gower-st-indie-spotlight-erica-mou-and-ivana-sajko-in-conversation-with-merve-emre/london-gower-street
Currently Reading
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ivana Sajko - Love Novel
Recommended reading
Concita De Gregorio - The Missing Word
https://www.europaeditions.com/book/9781609457631/the-missing-word
Emanuele Trevi - Two Lives
Top Shelf
Letter to a child never born - Oriana Fallaci
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
The Stranger - Albert Camus
All Men are Mortal - Simone de Beauvoir
A Room Of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
The Adversary - Emmanule Carrere
Boredom - Alberto Moravia
Family Sayings (Lessico famigliare) - Natalia Ginzburg
Music at the end of the episode is Animals from Erica's latest Album, Nature


