Beyond The Zero

Show notes Tex Gresham https://squeakypig.com @thatsqueakypig Sunflower is out 22nd of November through Spaceboy Books https://readspaceboy.com/portfolio/sunflower/ Gateway Book Valis - Philip K Dick Currently reading Search History - Eugene Lim Ordinary People - Judith Guest Top 10 1.) Inherent Vice - Pynchon 2.) Underworld - Don Delillo 3.) Valis - PKD 4.) Broom of The System - DFW 5.) American Psycho - BEE 6.) Dear Cyborgs Eugene Lim 7.) The Archive of Alternative Endings - Lindsay Gregor 8.) Bear - Marian Engel 9.) Factotem - Charles Bukowski 10.) Dark Tower - The Gunslinger - Stephen King. Also mentioned - Mammother by Zachary Schomburg Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan

Show notes Courtenay S. Gray https://courtenayscorner.com http://www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2021/10/poetry-selections-from-courtenay-s-gray.html?m=1 http://www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2021/09/fiction-skin.html?m=1 Upcoming work in https://gutslutpress.wordpress.com/g-u-t-s-l-u-t-new-site-new-press-check-back-soon/ https://www.miserytourism.com/category/fiction-poetry/ https://expatpress.com Gateway book Lolita - Nabokov Georges Bataille - Story of the Eye Jack Moody - Dancing to Broken Records Brett Easton-Ellis - American Psycho Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead Simone de Beauvoir - Letters to Sartre Top 10 1. )Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 2.) Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway 3.) Love is a Dog From Hell - Charles Bukowski 4.) Age of Reason - Sartre 5.) Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami 6.) Fata Morgana - William Kotzwinkle 7.) The Tunnel - Ernesto Sabato 8.) A Spy in the House of Love Anaïs Nin 9.) Notes From the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 10.) Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille

George Salis Show notes Links https://thecollidescope.com https://georgesalis.wordpress.com https://www.patreon.com/TheCollidescope Satanic Verses podcast - https://www.booksofsomesubstance.com/books/salman-rushdies-the-satanic-verses-guest-george-salis?fbclid=IwAR3G_D0VNm0UMtq212n1Jmnap5TjSV6xRV_dTmGLjFHdsnLnJs_RLl9Wsnc Gateway books Hitch 22 - Christopher Hitchens Currently reading Horseplay - Lee Siegel - (also Love in a dark language) Lance Olsen - Dream Lives of Debris Mircea Cărtărescu - Nostalgia João Guimarães - Rosa The Devil to Pay in the Backlands My Horse and Other Stories - Stacy Levine Gregor Von Risori - Abel and Cain Book of Portraiture - Steve Tomasulo (also Vass) Ibrahim Al-Koni - Anubis and The Fetishists Tom Mallin's - Erowina Top 10 Ulysses - James Joyce Infinite Jest - DFW Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino (see also Mulligan Stew - Gillbert Sorrentino review coming up on The Collidescope) Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Underworld - Don Delilo Darconville’s Cat - Alexander Theroux

Show notes Jasper Fforde www.jasperfforde.com Gateway Book; Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Current reads; You Are Not Sparrows: A Light-Hearted Account of Flying Between the Wars - by S.J. Carr Top 10 True Grit - Charles Portis Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About - Mill Millington He Died With A Felafel in his Hand - John Birmingham 1927 - Bill Bryson Moomin - Tove Jansen Catch-22 Joseph Heller Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut Tiger Tiger - Alfred Bester (AKA The Stars My Destination) Alice in Wonderland / Through The Looking Glass Lewis Carroll Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham Douglas Adams - All books Grim Short Story Comp - write your story as a review on danmurphys.com.au and share with us via twitter @beyondzeropod or email to beyondthezeropod@gmail.com Shortlisted entries will be read on the show and the winner will receive a signed copy of Grimmish from Michael Winkler. 

Show notes  Grim Short Story Competition; Entries are open from 24th of September and close on 22nd of October. To submit go to www.danmurphys.com.au and submit your story as a review of a product. Be creative ! Screenshot or send us a link once your entry is live and send to beyondthezeropod@gmail.com or tweet to @beyondzeropod #grim 10 stories will be shortlisted and read on the podcast. The winner will receive a signed copy of Grimmish.  Here is an example;  https://www.danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_73011/mcwilliam-s-royal-reserve-dry-apera (see review titled nothing on earth) Michael Winkler  Top ten  1.  Moby Dick by Herman Melville 2.  The Outsider by Albert Camus 3.  The Sweet Science by AJ Liebling 4.  The Unquiet Grave by Palinurus (Cyril Connolly) 5.  If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him! The pilgrimage of psychotherapy patients by Sheldon B. Kopp 6.  Days Without End by Sebastian Barry 7.  Carpentaria by Alexis Wright 8.  A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews 9. Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin 10.  The Vivisector by Patrick White/The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser Gateway book: -  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig -  Plus Bony books (Arthur Upfield), Agatha Christie books Recent pleasures: -  My Duck Is Not Your Duck by Deborah Eisenberg -  Tell Me Why by Archie Roach -  It gets me home, this curving track by Ian Penman -  Make it Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie Jamison -  Blacktop Wasteland by SA Crosby -  The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy -  Shirl by Wayne Marshall -  501 Minutes to Christ by Poe Ballantine Links; https://www.michaelwinkler.com.au  

Meyer's Megafictional Musings  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkNIZdug9XtuCHalq-LtBpw Twitter @nr_wayne  Instagram @meyers_megafictional_musings  Gateway Books  Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz  Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein  Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead  Currently Reading / TBR / Just read  America and The Cult of The Cactus Boots - Phillip Freedenberg + Jeff Walton. Corona\Samizdat Press Old Man and The Sea - Hemingway  J.G. Ballard - Concrete Island  Gabriel Garcia Marquez - General in His Labyrinth  Richard Price - The Wanderers Music choices  Tycho  Propagandhi  Protest the Hero  Rise Against  Metallica  Justice for All  Arizona  Top 10  Fifth Business - Robertson Davies  The Magus - John Fowles  Middle C - William H Gass Naked Singularity - Sergio De La Pava  Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera  The Recognitions - William Gaddis  Against The Day - Thomas Pynchon  The Tunnel - William H Gass Pale King - David Foster Wallace  Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace    

Ramona Koval www.ramonakoval.com Audio clips are courtesy of the ABC and can be found on Ramona’s website and on the ABC website abc.net.au Gateway book The Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde (read by Orson Wells) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ4x5x6Gylo Currently reading; Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin Edward Hirsch - How to Read a Poem, Gabriel. Pat Shipman - Our Oldest Companions Top 10 The Trial - Franz Kafka My Mother’s House - Colette Madame Bovary - Flaubert What I saw - Joseph Roth The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead Grace Paley -The Little Disturbances of Man Ernest Shackelton - South Wisława Szymborska - Poetry Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Svetlana Alexievich Edward Hirsch - How to Read a Poem and Gabriel.

Season 1 Episode 7 Brian Boyd Gateway book - Lolita Currently Reading Vanessa Springora - Consent Kate Elizabeth Russel - My Dark Vanessa Rutger Bregman - Humankind David Sloan Wilson - Atlas Hugged Jonathan Rauch - The Constitution of Knowledge Frans De Waal - Mamma’s Last Hug Looking forward to Orhan Pamuk - Nights of Plague Top 10 1.) Pale Fire - Nabokov (closely followed by Ada, Speak Memory, Lolita) 2.) Ulysses -Joyce 3.) Shakespeare 4.) Homer - The Odyssey - 5.) Willa Cather - My Antonia 6.) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin - 7.) Anna Karenina - Tolstoy 8.) Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis - The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas 9.) Maus - Art Speigelman 10.) Dickens Links; http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz https://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/bboy001 https://thenabokovian.org

Season 1 Episode 6 Alina Stefanescu www.alinastefanescuwriter.com Her new book Dor is available now Gateway book Emil Cioran - On The Heights of Despair Currently Reading Kate Zambreno - To Write As If Already Dead Antoine Volodine - Minor Angels Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism and K-Pop Top 10 Annie Ernaux - The Years Mihail Sebastian - For Two Thousand years Jenny Erpenbeck - The End of Days Norman Manea - The Black Envelope Dumitru Țepeneag - Vein Art of the Fugue Daniil Kharms - Today I Wrote Nothing Gregor von Rezzori - An Ermine in Czernopol Varlam Shalamov - Kolyma Tales Svetlana Boym - Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea Robert Musil - Diaries

Beyond The Zero Season 1 Episode 5 With Matt Bucher Show Notes https://www.mattbucher.com @mattbucher Tumblr buchr@tumblr.com bolanobolano.org coming soon Concavity Show Email - concavityshow@gmail.com https://greatconcavity.podbean.com Matt’s gateway book; U and I - Nicholson Baker Matt’s to be read and current reads Paradise Nevada - Dario Diofebi A Most Fun Thing - Kyle Beachy A Shock - Keith Ridgeway Ava - Carole Maso House of All Nations - Christina Stead Matt’s top 10 10.) Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky 9.) Herman Melville - Moby Dick 8.) John Updike - Rabbit is Rich 7.) Primo Levi - Survival in Auschwitz 6.) Sarah Gerard - Binary Star 5.) Iris Murdoch - Severed Head 4.) David Markson - Vanishing Point 3.) Roberto Bolano - 2666 2.) Jim Gauer - Novel Explosives 1.) David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest Honorable mentions Anne Petry - The Street Brenda Lezano - Loop Robert Eisler - Man into Wolf Podcast A Very Square Peg by Brian Collins @averysquarepeg https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-very-square-peg-the-strange-and-remarkable/id1528774422 Malcolm Lowry - Under The Volcano Gerald Murnane - A Life On The Clouds Maggie Nelson - Bluets