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**Beyond The Zero**

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

Latest Episodes:

Michel Nieva - DENGUE BOY May 20, 2025

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Michel Nieva

@MichelNieva

Buy Dengue Boy here:

https://serpentstail.com/work/dengue-boy/

https://astrapublishinghouse.com/product/dengue-boy-9781662602658/

Gateway books

Late In August - Faulkner

Borges

Philip K Dick

Current reads

Samanta Schweblin - short story collection Good and Evil

Late Fascism - Alberto Toscano

Desert Island books

Borges - collected fiction

Andrew Porter - THE IMAGINED LIFE May 14, 2025

Show notes

https://www.andrewporterwriter.com

Gateway books /Authors

Raymond Carver

John Cheever

Denis Johnson

Elena Ferrante

Marilynne Robinson

Rachel Cusk

Knausgaard

Current Reads /Looking forward to

Lori Ostlund - Are You Happy

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum - Elita

Paul Lisicky

Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping

Collected Stories - Cheever

The Coast of Chicago - Stuart Dybek

Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son

Joan Didion - Slouching Toward Bethlehem

The Virgin Suicides - Jeffery Eugenides

Jonathan Meades - EMPTY WIGS May 12, 2025

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Buy Empty Wigs here :

https://unbound.com/products/empty-wigs

https://www.jonathanmeades.co.uk

ATTILA(s) with Katie Wittemore May 07, 2025

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Buy the two Attila books from Open Letter:

https://www.openletterbooks.org/collections/new-forthcoming/products/attila-coll

https://www.openletterbooks.org/collections/new-forthcoming/products/attila

SCHATTENFROH - With Michael Lentz and Max Lawton May 04, 2025

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Go and pre-order SCHATTENFROH from Deep Vellum

https://store.deepvellum.org/products/schattenfroh

Domenic Amerena - I WANT EVERYTHING May 01, 2025

Show notes

https://dominicamerena.com/

Buy the book from :

https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/I-Want-Everything/Dominic-Amerena/9781761631733

Gateway books

Monkey’s Mask - Dorothy Hewitt

Disgrace - Coetzee

Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing/ The Golden Notebook

Kafka - Short Stories

Current reads

Princess of 72nd Street - Elaine Kraf

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Things - Perec

Desert Island books

The Golden Notebook - Lessing

Coetzee

The Notebook Trilogy - Ágota Kristóf

Ewan Morrison - FOR EMMA Apr 27, 2025

Show notes

https://www.ewanmorrison.com/

Get For Emma here :

https://leamingtonbooks.com/for-emma

Pre-order in the US from Arcade here

https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/arcade-publishing/9781648211423/for-emma/

https://ewanmorrison.substack.com/?r=1e87xj&utm_campaign=subscribe-page-share-screen&utm_medium=web

Gateway books /authors

Orwell

Milan Kundera

Michel Houellebecq

Richard Yates

Lorrei Moore

Dostoyevsky

Current reads

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race - Thomas Ligotti

Ray Kurzweil - The Singularity is Near /Nearer

Desert Island books

Note Form The Underground

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race - Thomas Ligotti

Mark Polizzotti - COMMAND PERFORMANCE BY JEAN ECHENOZ Apr 24, 2025

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Mark Polizzotti

Buy Command Performance from NYRB

https://www.nyrb.com/products/command-performance

Pre-order Nadja here;

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

Gateway books

Le Schizo et les langues - Louis Wolfson

A Void - Perec

Cathay - Ezra Pound

The Philosophy of Translation - Damion Searls

Edwin Frank - Stranger Than Fiction

Desert Island Books

Marguerite Duras - Writing and The Sailor From Gibraltar

The Banquet Years - Roger Shattuck

John Ashbery - Poems

Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig

Bristol Vaudrin - AFTERWARD Apr 24, 2025

Show notes

https://www.bristolvaudrin.com/

Buy Afterward here:

https://tortoisebooks.com/store/afterward

Gateway books

Pride and Prejudice

Anna Karenina

The Western Cannon

Current reads

Gravity’s Rainbow

Looking forward to

The Delegation Avner Landes

New Christian TeBordo

Desert Island books

We The Drowned - Carsten Jensen

The Iliad

Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner

Too Far Afield - Günter Grass

Independant People - Halldór Laxness

Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

Mount Chicago - Adam Levin

Ryan O'Connor THE VOIDS Apr 20, 2025

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Ryan O’Connor

@WordsOConnor

Order The Voids from :

https://scribepublications.co.uk/books-authors/books/the-voids-9781913348441

Gateway books

W.B. Yates - A Vision

Robert Service - The Call of The Yukon

Current reads / Recently enjoyed

Pougemahone - Patrick McCabe

Fernada Melchor - Paradais

Grimmish - Michael Winkler

Top 10

Journey To The End of The Night - Celine

Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry

Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky

The Trial - Kafka

The Legend of The Holy Drinker - Joseph Roth

Heart of Darkness - Conrad

The Dream Songs - John Berryman

On The Road - Kerouac

Leaves of Grass- Walt Whitman

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