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**Beyond The Zero**

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

Latest Episodes:

John Vurro - PLAY, REWIND Jun 26, 2025

Show notes

https://www.johnvurrowriter.com/

Buy Play, Rewind here https://tortoisebooks.com/store/play-rewind

Guardians Story

https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/28434-guardians

Gateway books /authors

Raymond Carver

Hemingway - Stories

Saul Bellow

Philip Roth

Chekhov - Stories

The Centaur - Updike

Rabbit Run - Updike

Current reads

The Perpetual Motion Machine - Brittany Ackerman

Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hiromi Kawakami

Brief Encounters with the Enemy

The Delegation - Avner Landes

Melville - Fresan

Audition - Katie Kitamura

Desert Island Books

Moby Dick

The Ask - Sam Lipsyte

Charles D’Ambrosio - Dead Fish Museum

John Cheever - Stories

Remains of the Day - Ishiguro

Revolutionary Road - Yates

Stoner - John Williams

Invisible Man - Ellison

Great Expectations - Dickens

Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami

John Pistelli - MAJOR ARCANA Jun 23, 2025

Show notes

https://johnpistelli.com

BUY THE BOOK FROM :

https://beltpublishing.com/products/major-arcana-1

Current reads

Rainer Maria Rilke

Kafka

Ross Barkan - Glass Century

Stop All the Clocks - Noah Kumin

The Unmapping - Denise S. Robbins
Desert Island Books

Shakespeare

Ulysses

American Literature Norton Anthology Volume 2

Underworld - DeLillo

The Magic Mountain - Mann

Timothy O'Grady - MONAGHAN Jun 19, 2025

Show notes

Buy the book from :

https://unbound.com/products/monaghan

Gateway books

100 Years of Solitude - Marquez

John Berger - G

One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

Chekov

Brothers Karamazov

Hamlet

Current Reads

The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson

Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver

Bruno Schultz - Street of Crocodiles

Dermot Healy - The Goat Song

Desert Island Books

Chekov- Collected Short Stories

Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times - Thomas Hauser

Wendy Erskine - THE BENEFACTORS Jun 18, 2025

Show notes

@WednesdayErskin

Steve Aylett - THE BOOK LOVERS Jun 15, 2025

Show notes

Steve Aylett

https://www.steveaylett.com/

https://www.steveaylett.com/thebookloversaylett/

Current reads

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy - Becky Chambers

In One Ear: Cocteau Twins, Ivor Raymonde and Me -Simon Raymonde

Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell

Desert Island Books

Little Big - John Crowley

Candide - Voltaire

Jack Vance - Showboat World

The Horses Mouth - Joyce Carey

The Great When - Alan Moore

Emil Cioran

Kurt Baumeister - TWILIGHT OF THE GODS Jun 12, 2025

Show notes

Buy Twilight of the Gods here :

https://www.stalkinghorsepress.com/product/twilight-of-the-gods-pb/

https://kurtbaumeister.com/

Gateway books/authors

Dr Suess

Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew

Sherlock Holmes

Tom Swift

Issac Asimov

Michael Moorcock

Martin Amis

Nabokov

Kundera

Julian Barnes

Calvino

Shakespeare

Current reads

Gemini Wahhaj - Katy Family

Duncan Barlow - A Dog Between Us

Tony Trigilio - The Punishment Book

A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel - Cynthia Weiner

Shakespeare

London Fields - Amis

Pale Fire - Nabokov

The Passion - Jeanette Winterson -

The Handmaid’s Tale - Atwood

Hemingway - Short Stories

Ben Tanzer - AFTER HOURS Jun 09, 2025

Show notes

https://www.igpub.com/after-hours/

https://www.tanzerben.com

Elizabeth Ellen - AMERICAN THIGHS Jun 05, 2025

Show notes

Elizabeth Ellen

Buy the book here :

https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/elizabeth-ellen-american-thighs-preorder

https://www.hobartpulp.com/books/sfld

Gateway Books

A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers

Excitability - Dianne Williams

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things - J.T. LeRoy

End of the Story - Lydia Davis

Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis

More, Now, Again - Elizabeth Wurtzel

Play It as It Lays - Joan Didion

Current Reads

Constance Debré - Trilogy

Unshrunk - Laura Delano

Trying - Chloe Caldwell

Desert Island Books

The Great Gatsby

Nine Stories - Salinger

A Movable Feast - Hemingway

Edie: American Girl - Jean Stein

The Andy Warhol Diaries

Ottessa Moshfegh - Trilogy

Patricia Highsmith - Ripley Books /The Price of Salt.

Beau L'Amour - LOST TREASURES - LOUIS L'AMOUR May 28, 2025

Show notes

http://www.louislamourslosttreasures.com/

http://beaulamour.com/

Gateway Books / Authors

Doc Savage series

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Dashiell Hammett

Ross Macdonald

Raymond Chandler

Current Reads /Looking forward to

Allan Furst novels

Desert Island Books /Authors

H. Rider Haggard

Wilbur Smith - Eye of The Tiger

John DeChancie

Andre Norton

Kevin Wilson - RUN FOR THE HILLS May 22, 2025

Show notes

https://www.wilsonkevin.com/

@kevinwilsonauthor

Gateway books

The Secret Three - Mildred Myrick

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Yearling

A Hero Ain’t Nothing but A Sandwich - Alice Childress

Current reads

Audition - Katie Kitamura

Dying, In Other Words - Maggie Gee

Emma Straub - New book 2026

Desert Island Books

True Grit - Charles Portis

Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

Anne Patchett - The Magician’s Assistant

We Have Always Lived in The Castle - Shirley Jackson

Carson McCullers - The Member of The Wedding

Randall Keenan - A Visitation of Spirits

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