

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

Dec 3, 2021 • 41min
Sergio de la Pava
Sergio De La Pava
https://www.sergiodelapava.com
Gateway Books
Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Recently Enjoyed
Winter in Sokcho - Elisa Shua Dusapin
See also https://www.nationalbook.org/2021-national-book-awards-longlist-for-translated-literature/
Top 10
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Moby Dick Herman Melville
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Fat City - Leonard Gardner
Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
Mulligan Stew - Gillbert Sorrentino

Nov 30, 2021 • 49min
Lauren Teixeira
Lauren Teixeira.
@lrntex
https://www.laurenteixeira.com
Our Struggle Podcast
@OurStrugglePod
https://anchor.fm/ourstrugglepod
Gateway Book
Tintin - Herge
Usagi Yojimbo- Stan Sakai
Currently Reading /Recently enjoyed /Looking forward tp
Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge
Play Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
Vox - Nicholson Baker
Red Harvest Dashiel Hammet
Tintin and the Secret of Literature - Tom McCarthy
Morning Star - Knausgaard
Anthony Powell - Dance to the Music of Time
Top 10
The Quiet American - Grahame Green
Mating - Norman Rush
Pride and Predjuice - Jane Austen
North and South. - Elizabeth Gasell
Jayne Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Karla Trilogy by John le Carré · Book 1 · Shelve Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy · Book 2 · Shelve The Honourable Schoolboy · Book 3 · Shelve Smiley's People
From Heaven Lake - Vikram Seth
Tintin - Prisoners of the sun Herge’
Our Struggle Volume 1 - Knausgaard

Nov 26, 2021 • 52min
Ben Shore
Show notes;
Ben Shore
@bookshore_ben Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/c/bookshore
Gateway books
Hard Boiled Wonderland At the End of the World - Murakami
Borges - Stories
Currently reading / recently enjoyed
Omensetter’s Luck - William H Gass
In The Heart In The Heart of The Country William H Gass
The Tunnel - William H Gass
Parallel Stories Peter Nadas
Top 10
Plot Against America
Lanark - Alisdair Gray
Disconnected by Oğuz Atay
The Frog Cemetery - Umberto Eco
White Noise - Don Delilo
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
Shoat Rumblings - Samuel R Delany
Lookout Cartridge - Joseph McElroy
Dubliners - James Joyce
Mason and Dixon - Thomas Pynchon

Nov 19, 2021 • 1h 28min
Emmett Stinson
Show Notes
Emmett Stinson
@EmmettStinson
Gateway books
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jnr
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Current reading, TBR and Recently enjoyed
Novel Explosives - Jim Gaur
House of all Nations - Christina Stead
Complete Stories - Clarice Lispector
Last Letter to a Reader - Gerald Murnane
Daronville’s Cat Alexander Theroux
Louis Armand - The Combinations
Prae - Miklós Szentkuthy
Adam Buenosayres - Leopoldo Marechal
Gregor Von Rizzori - Abel and Cain
Prairie Earth - William Least Heat-Moon
Kin -Miljenko Jergović
Havoc - Tom Kristensen
Larva - Julián Ríos
Belle du Seigneur -Albert Cohen
The Dying Grass - Vollmann
Top 10
1.) Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
2.) The Recognitions - William Gaddis
3.) Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things - Gilbert Sorrentino
4.) Middlemarch - George Elliot
5.) 2666 Roberto Bolaño
6.) A Million Windows - Gerald Murnane
7.) Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
8.)Panthers and the Museum of Fire - Jen Craig
9.) The Lost Scrapbook - Evan Dara
10.) The Counterfeiters Andre Gide

Nov 12, 2021 • 1h 24min
Ryan Alexander
Ryan Alexander
- Twitter @ryanhasbadtaste
- Instagram @therepublicofbadtaste
Vollmannia podcast @vollmannia coming in 2022
Gateway Books
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Hamlet
- Goosebumps
- Salem's Lot
- Arguably - Christopher Hitchens
TBR
· The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk; translated by Jennifer L. Croft
· The Plains, Inland, A Million Windows, Border Districts by Gerald Murnane
· Doppelgänger, Leica Format, Trieste, Belladonna, EEG by Daša Drndić; translated by S.D. Curtis, Celia Hawkesworth, and Ellen Elias-Bursać
· Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald; translated by Michael Hulse and Anthea Bell
· Mr. Theodore Mundstock, The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks; translated by Iris Urwin and Eva M. Kandler
· Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories by Tadeusz Borowicki; translated by Madeline G. Levine
· Satantango, The Melancholy of Resistance, War & War, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai; translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet
· Like a Tear in the Ocean, Vols. I-III by Manès Sperber; translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon
· The Book of Blam, The Use of Man, Kapo by Aleksandar Tišma; translated by Michael Henry Heim, Bernard Johnson, and Richard Williams
· A Dreambook for Our Time, A Minor Apocalypse by Tadeusz Konwicki; translated by David Welsh and Richard Lourie
· Nostalgia, Blinding, Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu; translated by Julian Semilian and Sean Cotter
· Kin by Miljenko Jergović; translated by Russell Scott Valentino
- Frost by Thomas Bernhard; translated by Michael Hofmann
· The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz; translated by Celina Wieniewska
· Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
· Lookout Cartridge, A Smuggler’s Bible, Hind’s Kidnap by Joseph McElroy
Top 10
10. Women and Men by Joseph McElroy
9. The Doll’s Alphabet by Camilla Grudova
8. How to Quiet a Vampire: A Sotie by Borislav Pekić; translated by Stephen M. Dickey and Bogdan Rakić
7. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell; translated by Charlotte Mandell
6. Beloved by Toni Morrison
5. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
4. Ice by Anna Kavan
3. Rising Up and Rising Down, Vol I: Three Meditations on Death, The Days of the Niblungs, Definitions for Lonely Atoms by William T. Vollmann
2. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
1. Moby-Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville

Nov 4, 2021 • 1h 19min
David Keenan
David Keenan
@reversediorama
www.whiterabbitbooks.com
Gateway books
Under The Volcano
Lester Bangs - Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Currently reading / TBR
Burning Man: The ascent of D.H. Lawrence - Frances Wilson
Mona - Pola Oloixarac
Selected Letters - John Berryman
The World of Bob Dylan - Sean Lathem
Maximus Poems - Charles Olsen (reread)
(See also - A Guide to The Maximus Poems of Charles Olson - George Butterick)
Strandings: Confessions of a Whale Scavenger - Peter Riley
(Forthcoming Feb 2022)
Top 10
Aqua Viva - Clarise Lispector
Moravagine - Blaise Cendrars
Maximus Poems - Charles Olsen
Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
Monastic Architecture of France - Joan Evans
Lipstick Faces - Drew Marcus
In the Sierra - Mountain Writings Kenneth Rexroth
The Love Object Edna O’Brian
Leviathan - Paul Auster
Lester Bangs - Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

Oct 29, 2021 • 52min
Rick Harsch
Rick Harsch
https://rickharsch.wordpress.com
https://coronasamizdat.com
@harsch_rick twitter
Rick.harsch@gmail.com
@rick.harsch instagram
Currently reading
Blood Meridian - Reread
Oskar Submerges, by Zachary Tanner
The Wolf Leaps, by Chandler Brossard
Bedraggling Grandma with Russian Snow, by Joao Reis
1.) Moby Dick - Melville
2.) Finnegans Wake - Joyce
3.) Middlemarch - Austen
4.) Alvaro Mutis
5.) Trieste - Daša Drndić
6.) Conversation in the Cathedral - Vargos Llosa
7.) Blaise Cendrars -Moravagine
8.) Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer
9.) Beckett Trilogy
10.) Don Quixote

Oct 22, 2021 • 39min
Tex Gresham
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

Oct 15, 2021 • 40min
Courtenay S. Gray
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

Oct 8, 2021 • 1h 16min
George Salis
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


