

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

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

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
Events for the launch of Telltale;
https://transitlounge.com.au/events/132/launch-of-telltale-by-carmel-bird/
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/carmel-bird-telltale-tickets-336956906177
Buy it here or through your local independent book shop;
https://transitlounge.com.au/shop/telltale-reading-writing-remembering/
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


