

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

Apr 7, 2022 • 46min
Emily Hall
Emily Hall
@emilyhallnyc
Buy the Longcut here https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/the-longcut
Influences;
Thomas Bernhard
Gertrude Stein
Samuel Beckett
Gateway books/art
Harriet The Spy - Fitzhugh
Bleak House - Dickens
Concrete - Bernhard
Arthur Danto
Sigmar Polka
Mark Lombardi
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2-2-can-cake/
https://artbasel.com/catalog/artwork/34806/Sigmar-Polke-Druckfehler-Printing-Error
http://www.artnet.com/artists/sigmar-polke/velocitas-firmitudo-kuY66hul3giEoMuJsTWS3Q2
Blind Spot books
- The Captive - Proust
Arno Schmitt
Currently reading / Recently enjoyed/ looking forward to
Claudia Piñeiro - Elena Knows
My Dead Book - Nate Lippens
Since the Accident - Jen Craig
Carlos Labbé - Spiritual Choreography
Mark Haber - St Sebastian’s Abyss
Daša Drndic - Doppelgänger
Top Ten
Thomas Bernhard - Correction
Waiting for Godot - Beckett
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
Julie Hecht - The Unprofessionals
Lydia Davis - The End of The Story
2666 - Bolano
Mapp and Lucia - E. F. Benson
Wittgenstein’s Mistress - Markson
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
Madame Realism - Lynne Tillman

Mar 30, 2022 • 35min
Ben Walter
Ben Walter
https://ben-walter.com
Email hello@ben-walter.com
Twitter @ben_walter
Buy What Fear Was here:
https://shop.fullersbookshop.com.au/p/what-fear-was?barcode=9781922571205&search_key=what+fear+was
Gateway books
Current reads
Top 10
Collected Fiction - Borges
Heat and Light - Ellen Van Neerven
Waypoints - Adam Ouston
Top 10
Seeing Stars Simon Armitage
Cosmos and Ferdyderke - Witold Gombrowicz
Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut
Underworld - Don Delillo
Fever Dream - Samanta Schweblin
Pereira Maintains- Antonio Tabucchi
Julius Winsome - Gerard Donovan
Speedboat - Renata Adler

Mar 23, 2022 • 1h 4min
Andrew Roff
Andrew Roff
@roffwrites
https://roffwrites.com
Buy Teeth of a Slow Machine here:
https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-teeth-of-a-slow-machine-andrew-roff/book/9781743058916.html?source=pla&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5tvJhaji9QIViphmAh2O7gpCEAYYASABEgKT6vD_BwE
Published by @WakefieldPress
What I'm reading: Ben Walter - What Fear Was
Fiona Robertson - If You're Happy
Olga Ravn - The Employees
What I'm looking forward to:
ane Rawson - A History of Dreams
Anne Casey Hardy - Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls
Al Campbell - The Keepers Adam Ouston - Waypoints
Gateway Books Isaac Asimov - I, Robot
James Clavell - Shogun Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Roald Dahl - Collected Stories
Top 10
Elizabeth Tan - Rubik
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policeman's Union
Ryan O'Neill - The Weight of a Human Heart
Josephine Rowe - Here Until August
Wayne Marshall - Shirl
Ursula LeGuin - The Left Hand of Darkness
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert Kurvitz - Disco Elysium (this is a computer game, but it's really interactive literary fiction)

Mar 17, 2022 • 57min
Louis Armand
Louis Armand
https://atelierlouisarmand.wordpress.com
Gateways and influences.
International poetry collections including Kenneth Slessor (title unknown)
Authors
LUKÁŠ TOMIN
https://www.twistedspoon.com/tomin.html
Currently reading/recently enjoyed
The Dawn of Everything
Book by David Graeber and David Wengrow
The Logos - Mark De Silva
Top Shelf
Richard Makin - Dwelling
https://equuspress.wordpress.com/richard-makin/
Publishers to check out
http://www.insidethecastle.org
https://amphetaminesulphate.bigcartel.com

Mar 10, 2022 • 1h 22min
Seth from W.A.S.T.E. Mailing List
Seth on Twitter @wastemailing
Instagram @wastemailinglist
wastemailinglist@gmail.com
https://wastemailinglist.substack.com
Gateway Books:
House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
2.Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
3.Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Currently Reading:
1. Anniversaries: A Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl by Uwe Johnson, translated by Damion Searls
2. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Anticipated Reads:
1. William T Vollmann
2. Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter
3. Blinding: The Left Wing by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter
4. A Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine translated by Ralph Manheim
5. Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet
6. Devil House by John Darnielle
7. The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
8. Malina by Ingborg Bachman translated by Philip Boehm
9. The Complete Works of Primo Levi compiled by Ann Goldstein
Top 10:
10. I’m Thinking of Endings Things by Iain Reid
9. Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
8. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
7. Satantango by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes
6. The Burrow by Franz Kafka, translated by Michael Hofmann
5. In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
4. Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
3. Story of the Eye by George Bataille, translated by Joachim Neugrochal
(Correction (1:11:30) - Seth refers to the narrator's love interest as Marcelle where he meant to say Simone. Marcelle is a secondary character in the story.)
2. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
1. Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

Mar 6, 2022 • 1h 2min
Adam Ouston
Adam Ouston
@adamouston
https://www.costyoume.co/biography
Buy Waypoints here
https://puncherandwattmann.com/product/waypoints/
https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/our-titles/phase-4/waypoints/
https://www.booktopia.com.au/waypoints-adam-ouston/book/9781922571243.html
Gateway books
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Malone Dies - Beckett
Jeanette Winterson - The Passion
Current reads
Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellmann
Fernando Pessoa -Biography - Richard Zenith
Paul Auster - Stephan Crane
Ben Walter - What Fear Was
Top Shelf
All Fires the Fire - Julio Cortazar
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Jeanette Winterson - The Passion
Thomas Bernhard - The Looser
The Melancholy of Resistance - László Krasznahorkai
Dublinesque - Enrique Villa-Matas
The Vegetarian - Han King
By Night in Chile - Roberto Bolano
Max Sebald - Vertigo

Mar 3, 2022 • 47min
Caroline Golden and Derek Owens
Caroline Golden and Derek Owens
The Villagers is available now here;
https://animalheartpress.net/meet-the-villagers/
www.carolinegolden.com
@cgcollage
www.derekowens.net
@derekowens.art
Gateway books
D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
The golden phoenix, and other French-Canadian fairy tales - Book by Marius Barbeau
Alice - Lewis Carroll
Top Shelf
Derek
Laurence Millman - A kayak Full of Ghosts
Russel Edson - Poetry
Kij Johnston - At the Mouth of the River of Bees
Ridley Walker Russel Hoban
Carmen Maria Machado - Her Body and Other Parties
Laird Hunt - Zorie and In The House in The Dark in The Woods
Jacob Rabinowitz - Blame It On Blake: a memoir of dead languages, gender vagrancy, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Corso & Carr
Caroline -
The Green Fairy Book - Andrew and Nora Lang
Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
Love in the Time of Cholera - Marquez
The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
Fresh Water for Flowers Valérie Perrin

Feb 24, 2022 • 52min
Rikki Ducornet
Rikki Ducornet
http://www.rikkiducornet.com
Gateway Books / Authors
Alice in Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carol
50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship - Salvador Dali
Misfortunes of The Immortals - Paul Eluard, Illustrated by Max Ernst
Kafka
Borges
Calvino
Lispector
Lolita - Nabokov
100 Years of Solitude - Marquez
Omensetter’s Luck - William H Gass
Currently reading/recently enjoyed looking forward to
Above us The Milky Way - Fowzia Karimi
The Celestial Hunter - Roberto Calloso
Top 10ish
Above us The Milky Way - Fowzia Karimi
Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carol
Kafka
Borges
Lolita - Nabokov
Cosmicomics - Calvino
The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin
Omensetter’s Luck - William H Gass

Feb 18, 2022 • 1h 20min
Jen Craig
Jen Craig
Buy Panthers and the Museum of Fire through
http://zerogrampress.com/2020/03/30/panthers-and-the-museum-of-fire/
https://www.booktopia.com.au/panthers-and-the-museum-of-fire-jen-craig/book/9781953409065.html
In Australia head to Gleebooks or Blarney Books
https://shop.blarneybooks.com.au/p/panthers-and-the-museum-of-fire?barcode=9781925052145
Gateway books
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
An Imaginary Life - David Malouf
The Man who Loved Children - Christina Stead
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
Gargoyles - Thomas Bernhard
Currently reading / Looking forward to
Mauro Javier Cárdenas - Aphasia
See What I See - Greg Gerke
Dodge Rose - Jack Cox
The Other Name - Jon Fosse
The Longcut - Emily Hall -
Doomtown - Gabriel Blackwell
Top 10
Gargoyles - Thomas Bernhard
The Man who Loved Children - Christina Stead
Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
The New Life - Orhan Pamuk
The Watchtower/ The Long Prospect - Elizabeth Harrower
Border Districts - Gerald Murnane
Amerika - Franz Kafka

Feb 11, 2022 • 56min
Garielle Lutz
Garielle Lutz
@gariellelutz
https://www.booktopia.com.au/worsted-garielle-lutz/book/9780996494922.html
https://www.hobartpulp.com/books/worsted
Show notes
Gateway books
City Life - Donald Barthelme
Barry Hannah - Ray
Modern American Usage -Wilson Follet
Currently reading
See What I See - Greg Gerke
Gwendoline Riley (all books)
The Pure and The Impure - Colette
Diane Arbus - new biography
Looking forward to;
A History of Present Illness, Anna DeForest
Summertime in the Emergency Room, David Nutt
No One Left to Come Looking for You, Sam Lipsyte
The Uncollected Essays, Elizabeth Hardwick
Top 10
Voyage in the Dark - Jean Rhys
The Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer - Christine Schutt
S.J. Perelman - The best of /Crazy like a fox
The Long Winded Lady - Maeve Brennan
Collected Works a journal in Jazz 1954- 2001 - Whitney Balliett
Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick
Modern American Usage -Wilson Follet
Venus Drive - Sam Lipsyte
Files on Parade John O’Hara.
Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers - Janet Malcolm
This week’s give-away
Source by Rosemary Johnston
@angelseyrie1901
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Source-Rosemary-Johnston/dp/1912665107
https://storymachines.co.uk/product/source/
If you would like free copy and live in the UK or Ireland DM me or email me beyondthezeropod@gmail.com first in wins.


