

Beyond The Zero
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Weekly long-form discussions about books with authors, translators and critics from around the world.
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Aug 19, 2021 • 38min
Bram Presser
Beyond The Zero
Season 1 Episode 4
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Gateway Book
I am The Cheese - Robert Cormier
Currently Reading
The Last Guest - J.P. Pomare
The Absolute Book - Elizabeth Knox
Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch - Rivka Galchen
The Promise - Damon Galgut
Grimmish - Michael Winkler
Klara And The Sun - Ishiguro
Smokehouse - Melissa Manning
Book of the year so far
The Employees - Olga Ravn
Top 10 (almost)
1.) I am The Cheese - Robert Cormier
2.) The Trial - Franz Kafka
3.) The Tenant - Roland Topor
4.) Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow
5.) Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal
6.) Trieste daša drndić
7.) This Blinding Absence of Light - Tahar Ben Jelloun
8.) Binu and the Great Wall - Su Tong
9.) The Ogre - Michel Tournier
10.) Censoring an Iranian Love Story - Shahriar Mandanipour
11.) The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman - Angela Hoffman
12.) The Infatuations Javier Marias
Honorable mentions
Andre Brink - A Dry White Season
I.J Singer - The Brothers Ashkenazi
Gerard Donovan - Schopenhauer’s Telescope
Jesse Ball - The Curfew, The census, Silence Once Begun.

Aug 12, 2021 • 47min
Dustin Illingworth
Show Notes;
Currently Reading
Flora Jaeggy - The Water Statues
Gerald Murnane - Stream System
Carole Maso - Ava
Hugh Kenner The Pound Era
Top 10
1. ) Malcolm Lowry - Under The Volcano
2.) Virginia Woolf - To The Light House
3.) James Joyce - Ulysses
4.) Roberto Bolano - 2666
5.) Herman Melville - Moby Dick
6.) László Krasznahorkai - Satantango
7.) Gerald Murnane - The Plains
8.) John Hawkes - The Lime Twig
9.) Nathaniel West - Miss Lonleyhearts
10.) Thomas Bernhard - Old Masters
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Aug 5, 2021 • 45min
Sean McCallum
Sean's book, The Recalcitrant Stuff of Life, is out October 15 through Outcast Press https://www.outcast-press.com/published-works
Sean's TBR pile
Thommy Waite - Any Day You Can Die
I'll Pray When I'm Dying - Stephen J Golds
Absolom Absolom - Faulkner
Moby Dick - Melville
Stoner -John Williams
J.R. McConvey - Different Beasts
Sean's Top Ten
1.) East of Eden - Steinbeck
2.) The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
3.) Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon
For Zak Smith's Illustrated GR see https://www.amazon.com/Pictures-Showing-Happens-Pynchons-Gravitys/dp/0977312798/ref=pd_sbs_1/130-7364922-7286407?pd_rd_w=djXZG&pf_rd_p=3676f086-9496-4fd7-8490-77cf7f43f846&pf_rd_r=89QM2CT5B8DHG8KZDJKE&pd_rd_r=d0c8640d-ca5b-478e-bb25-6b114c514453&pd_rd_wg=k3BaU&pd_rd_i=0977312798&psc=1)
4.) Bright Lights Big City - Jay McInerney
5.) The Body Stephen King
6.) Sound And The Fury Faulkner
7.) The Tender Bar - J.R Moehringer
8.) The Tropic of Hockey Dave Bidini
9.) Julian Barnes - History of the World in 10 and 1/2 Chapters
10.) High Fidelity - Nick Hornby

Jul 29, 2021 • 39min
Beyond The Zero with Thommy Waite
Season 1 Episode 1 of Beyond The Zero.
Show notes
Thommy Waite is the author of Any Day You Can Die and is the host of Thommy Waite's Square Record.
His website is www.thommywaite.com
Twitter @thommywaite
Show notes;
Thommy's TBR pile
Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
Bonfire of the Vanities - Thomas Wolf
Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
Stoner - John Williams
Hope - Glen Duncan
Vernon God Little - DPC Pierre (See Lights Out in Wonderland)
Thommy's Top 10
1.) Filth - Irvine Welsh
2.) Big Sur -Jack Kerouac
3.) The Marriage Plot - Jeffery Eugenides
4.) The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/nov/07/the-dice-man-elusive-author-luke-rhinehart-george-cockroft-emmanuel-carrere
5.) The Secret History - Donna Tart
6.) American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
7.) Rules of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis
8.) Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
9.) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
10.) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thomson
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