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**Beyond The Zero**

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

Latest Episodes:

DEATH TAKES ME by Cristina Rivera Garza with Sarah Booker and Robin Myers Mar 27, 2025

Show notes

DEATH TAKES ME by Cristina Rivera Garza

https://www.robinepmyers.com

https://sarahkbooker.com

ALL OUR TOMORROWS - Amy DeBellis Mar 20, 2025

Show notes

https://www.amydebellis.com/

Buy All Our Tomorrows here :

https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/amy-debellis-all-our-tomorrows-preorder

Gateway books

The Magicians - Lev Grossman

Sirens and Muses - Antonia Angress

Ripe - Sarah Rose Etter

Babel - R. F. Kuang

Donna Tart - Secret History

Current reads

Nothing Serious - Emily J Smith

The Imposter series - Scott Westerfeld

We Could Be Rats -Emily Austin

Sky Daddy - Kate Folk

Desert Island Books

Secret History - Donna Tart

All’s Well - Mona Award

A Simple Plan - Scott Smith

Dear Committee Members - Julie Schumacher

Cost - Roxana Robinson

THE THIRD TEMPLE by Yishai Sharid with Yardenne Greenspan Mar 12, 2025

Show notes

Yardenne Greenspan

@yardennegreenspan

Buy Yishai Sarid’s The Third Temple here

https://restlessbooks.org/bookstore/the-third-temple

Gateway books

The Great Gatsby

A Few Seconds of Radiant Film Script - Kevin Brockmeier

Second Person Singular - Sayed Kashua

Current reads

The Panelist - Yishai Sarid

Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain

Ghosts of a Holy War - Yardena Schwartz

The Snarling Girl - Elisa Albert

The Anatomy of Exile: A Novel - Zeeva Bukai

Desert Island books

Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

The History of Love - Nicole Krauss

People Love Dead Jews - Dara Horn

It - Stephen King

Henderson The Rain King - Saul Bellow

As A Palm Tree In The Desert and Chestnuts of Yesteryear - Zvi Ankori

One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset / A Detective's Complaint /Take Up and Read - Shimon Adaf

Vincenzo Latronico - PERFECTION Mar 06, 2025

Show notes

Vincenzo Latronico - PERFECTION

@vlatronico

Get the Book from here

Aust

http://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/perfection

https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/authors/vincenzo-latronico/

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

Gateway books

Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination

The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas

Current reads

Rejection Tony Tulathimutte

Elsa Morante

Splinters - Leslie Jamison

Desert Island books

Balzac The Human Comedy

The Count of Monte Cristo

Borges - short stories

Anna Maria Ortese - Il cardillo addolorato

Sonya Walger - LION Mar 04, 2025

Show notes

Sonya Walger

https://sonya-walger.com

Buy Lion from the wonderful NYRB:

https://www.nyrb.com/collections/sonya-walger

@sonyawalgerofficial

Gateway books

Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

Middlemarch - Elliot

To The LightHouse - Woolf

Current reads

Lore Segal- Her First American

The Last Samurai - DeWitt

Jenny Erpenbeck - Go Went Gone

Natalia Ginzburg - The Little Virtues

Desert Island Books

Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

Light Years - James - Salter

Mary Oliver - Dreamwork

The Writer’s Life - Annie Dillard

Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse/Mrs Dalloway

Stacey Levine - MICE 1961 Feb 27, 2025

Show notes

Stacey Levine

https://www.staceylevine.com/

Get Mice 1961 here :

https://www.versechorus.com/mice1961

Gateway books/ Authors

Clarice Lispector

Marie Redonnet

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead - Barbara Comyns

Current reads

Orbital - Samantha Harvey

Joe Orton - Plays

Damascus House - Corrina Wycoff

Desert Island books

Marguerite Duras

Barbara Comyns

Joseph O'Neill - GODWIN Feb 20, 2025

Show notes

Joseph O'Neill

@JosephONeillx

Get Godwin from

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741344/godwin-by-joseph-oneill/

Gateway books

Sylvia Plath - Poetry

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce

Seamus Heaney

Current reads

Karen Russel - The Antidote

Looking forward to rereading Nabokov and Pynchon

Desert Island Books

Complete Shakespeare

Joyce - Dubliners

Invisible Man - Ellis

Pnin - Nabokov

Collected poems - Wallace Stevens

Frank Kermode - Collected writing

Beckett - Nohow On

Muriel Spark

Borges - Ficciones

Madame Bovary

Levinas - Totality and Infinity

DARKENBLOOM by Eva Menasse with Charlotte Collins Feb 18, 2025

Show notes

Charlotte Collins

@cctranslates

Get Darkenbloom here

https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/darkenbloom-9781922585486

Gateway books

The Owl Service - Alan Garner

The Box of Delights - John Masefield

Narnia books

Marianne Dreams - Catherine Storr

A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle

A Traveler in Time - Alison Uttley

Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce

Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre

Current reads /recently enjoyed/Desert Island Books

Partiot - Alexei Navalny

Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder - Asako Yuzuki

Clearings - Iris Wolff (early 2026)

Desert Island Books

Complete Shakespeare

Four Quartets - T.S. Elliot

Dante

Lance Olsen - ABSOLUTE AWAY Feb 13, 2025

Show notes

Lance Olsen

https://lanceolsen.com/#menu

Gateway Books

Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut

As I Lay Dying - Faulkner

Pricksongs & Descants - Coover

Lost In The Funhouse - Barth

The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

Current Reads and Looking forward to

CRAIG BERNARDINI - TWELVE OXEN UNDER THE SEA

Sound Museum - Poupeh Missaghi

Colin Hamilton - The Discarded

Desert Island books /authors

Sound And The Fury - Faulkner

Ulysses - Joyce

Mrs Dalloway - Woolf

Lolita - Nabokov

Borges

Sebald

Murakami

Calvino

White Noise - DeLillo

Paul Auster

Percival Everett - James

Barthelme - Snow White

Crash - J.G. Ballard

Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes

The White Hotel - D. M. Thomas

Murnane

Adam Ross - PLAYWORLD Feb 06, 2025

Show notes

@adamrosswriter

Get the book from :

https://bookshop.org/p/books/playworld-adam-ross/21357966?ean=9780385351294&next=t&next=t

Gateway books

Farley Mowat - Never Cry Wolf/A Whale for the Killing

Dune

Ursula K. Le Guin

Current reads

Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change - Ben Austen

The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex - Melissa Febos

The Known World - Edward P. Jones

Desert Island Books

Fatal Shore - Robert Hughes

Alice Munro - Stories

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera

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