Beyond The Zero

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

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

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

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

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

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).  

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 

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

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

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)