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**Beyond The Zero**

Weekly long-form discussions about books with authors, translators and critics from around the world.

Latest Episodes:

Steve Stern - A FOOL'S KABBALAH Aug 07, 2025

Show notes

Steve Stern

Buy A Fool’s Kabbalah here

https://mhpbooks.com/books/a-fools-kabbalah

Gateway books

James Joyce

Kafka

Virginia Woolf

Thomas Pynchon

John Barth

Donald Barthelme

Malamud

Bellow

Philip Roth

Current reads

The Juniper Tree - Barbara Comyns

Daniel Kehlmann - Tyll / The Director

Dickens

Trollope

Desert Island Books

Charles De Coster - Tyl Ulenspiegel

One Hundred Years of Solitude

I. L. Peretz

Issac Babel

Malamud

Stories of Grace Paley

Nadja - ANDRÉ BRETON with Mark Polizzotti Aug 05, 2025

Show notes

https://www.nyrb.com/products/nadja

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum - ELITA Jul 31, 2025

Show notes

https://www.kirstensundberglunstrum.com

Buy Elita from https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147867/elita/

Gateway books

Jane Eyre

Andrea Barrret - Short Stories

Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Høeg

Current reads

Andrew Porter - The Imagined Life

Molly Olguín Home The Sea Gives Up the Dead

Everything We Could Do - David McGlynn

Ayşegül Savaş - Long Distance

Desert Island Books

Memory WallBook by Anthony Doerr

The Lights of Earth by Gina Berriault

John Berger - To The Wedding

Claire Keegan

Alice Munro

Michael Clune - PAN Jul 27, 2025

Show notes

https://www.michaelwclune.com

Get PAN here

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/771661/pan-by-michael-clune/

Gateway Books /writers

Proust

Emily Dickenson

The Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire

Current Reads

Savage Detectives

Baby, I Don't Care - Chelsea Minnis

The High Heaven - Joshua Wheeler

The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope

Desert Island Books

Dead Souls - Gogol

The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brian

Mansfield Park - Austen

Border Districts - Murnane

Emily Dickenson - Collected Poems

Dan Spencer - CAT LOVER Jul 23, 2025

Show notes

https://danspencerwriter.com

Get the book from :

https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/cat-lover/

Lori Feathers Jul 18, 2025

Show notes

loriafeathers

thebigbookproject

https://substack.com/@thebigbookproject

https://interabangbooks.com/

Gateway books

V.C. Andrews

Dostoyevsky

Tolstoy

Moby Dick

Current Reads/Looking Forward to

Miss Mackintosh My Darling

The Recognitions - Gaddis

Invidicum - Michael Brodsky

The School of Night - Karl Ove Knausgaard

Also see - https://www.litfunforever.com/category/knausgaard/

On the Calculation of Volume - Solvej Balle

Desert Island Books

Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov

Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karamazov

The Waves - Woolf

House of Mirth - Edith Wharton

Henry James - The Ambassadors

Absalom, Absalom - Faulkner

Compass - Enard

Septology - Fosse

Andie Blaine - MARGUERITE YOUNG Jul 11, 2025

Show notes

Andie Blaine

@forapessimist

@andieblaine

https://www.margueriteyoung.site

Gateway Books /Writers

Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellman

Slow days, fast company - Eve Babitz

Paul Auster - 4321/Moon Palace

Orbital - Samantha Harvey

Renata Alder - Pitch Dark

Bolano - 2666

Current reads

End of August - Yu Miri

Nobodaddy's Children - Arno Schmidt

Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife - Francesca Wade

Name and Love Me Tender - Constance Debré

Desert Island Books

Finnegan’s Wake

Miss Mackintosh

Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellman

I Would Have Saved Them If I Could - Leonard Michaels

Bottom’s Dream - Arno Schmidt

Alex Kazemi - NEW MILLENNIUM BOYZ Jul 10, 2025

Show notes

https://alexkazemi.com

Buy the book from

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/New-Millennium-Boyz/Alex-Kazemi/9781637583913

Current reads

Honor Levy - My First Book

Denis Cooper - Hunker

Zoe Dubno - Happiness and Love

Desert Island Books

The War of Art - Steven Pressfield

Guy Debord

Sophia Terazawa - TETRA NOVA Jul 07, 2025

Show notes

https://store.deepvellum.org/products/tetra-nova

Gateway books

Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire

Woman, native, other - Trinh T. Minh-ha

Salvador Plascencia -People of Paper

Carole Maso - Ava

Curent Reads

The Famished Road - Ben Okri

Seven Types of Ambiguity - Empson

The Forest - Susan Stuart

Desert Island Books

The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje

John Patrick Higgins - SPINE Jul 03, 2025

Show notes

https://johnpatrickhiggins.blogspot.com

@johnpatrickhiggins

Buy Spine from https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/spine/

Episode description

Professor Cliff Davenport's nephew disappears with his girlfriend while swimming off the Welsh Coast. Davenport discovers that a colony of giant crabs is responsible, and resolves to track down and destroy them. Will he succeed before the monstrous crabs devour entire human populations? Find out this week on Beyond The Zero...

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