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**Beyond The Zero**

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

Latest Episodes:

A. Valliard - THE CITY OF LOST INTENTIONS Sep 28, 2024

Show notes

https://www.thecityoflostintentions.com

Will Evans Sep 26, 2024

Show notes

Will Evans

@willevans

@deepvellum

@dalkey_archive

https://www.deepvellum.org/

Gateway books / Authors

Maxim Gorky - Life of a Useless Man

The Alienist Caleb Carr

Bukowski

Russian Classics

Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavić

Blinding - Cartarescu

Carmen Boullosa -Texas

Current reads / Recently Read / Looking forward to

Undaunted Courage - Stephen Ambrose

Carl de Souza - Kaya Days

Priya Hein - Riambel

Upcoming - Thomas Pynchon

Desert Island books

Master and Margarita

Blinding - Cartarescu

Borges - Collected fiction

Flannery O’Connor - Collected Stories

Chekhov - Collected Stories

M.L Rio - GRAVEYARD SHIFT Sep 24, 2024

Show notes

https://mlrio.com

Buy Graveyard Shift here :

https://bookshop.org/p/books/graveyard-shift-a-novella-m-l-rio/20974723?ean=9781250356796

Ottilie Mulzet - HERSCHT by László Krasznahorkai with Seth from W.A.S.T.E Mailing List Sep 19, 2024

Show notes

https://www.ottiliemulzet.net

By HERSCHT from

https://www.ndbooks.com/book/herscht-07769/

Gateway books / Authors

Alice Munro

Charlotte Bronte

Henry James

Emily Dickenson

Current Reads

The Cairo Trilogy - Naguib Mahfouz

Bílá Voda - Kateřina Tučková

Lee Klein - LIKE IT MATTERS Sep 12, 2024

Show notes

Lee Klein's website

https://www.litfunforever.com

Buy the book here

https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/like_it_matters

Notes

Recently read

Always Crashing in the Same Car: A Novel After David Bowie by Lance Olsen

36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le

The Third Realm by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Autoportrait by Eduoard Leve, Autoportrait by Jesse Ball, I Remember by Joe Brainard, Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti

The Material by Camille Bordas (Colorin’ Colorado story on New Yorker podcast)

Percival Everett bender (Telephone, Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Pointier, Dr. No).

Looking forward to

Backwardness by Garielle Lutz (currently reading) – also The Complete Gary Lutz

Jose Trigo by Fernando del Paso and Ute av Verden by Knausgaard

The Red Handler by Johan Harstad (Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven)

Horse Latitudes by Morris Collins

Anxious Pleasures: A Novel After Kafka by Lance Olson

White Mythology by W.D. Clarke
Much Ado About Everything: Oration on the Dignity of the Novelist by Gary Amdahl
Annihilation by Houellebecq
Still need to get to The Fraud and the new Enard

Reread Dracula in October, finally read some Trollope

Repost - Ross Benjamin - THE KAFKA DIARIES Sep 11, 2024

Show notes

This is a repost of my chat with Ross Benjamin

⁠https://www.rossmbenjamin.com⁠

Get The Kafka Diaries here

⁠https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612561/the-diaries-of-franz-kafka-by-franz-kafka/⁠

Gateway books / writers

Asimov - Foundation Trilogy

Kafka

Joseph Roth

Dostoyevsky

Chekov

Sontag

Ralph Ellison

Richard Wright

Cynthia Ozick

Current reads / recently enjoyed /Looking forward to

Daniel Deronda - George Eliot

Lydia Davis - Essays

David Means - Two Nurses Smoking

Fernando Pesoa - Book of Disquiet

Desert Island Books

Daniel Deronda - George Eliot

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Stoner - John Williams

Dune - Frank Herbert

James. M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice/Double indemnity/Mildred Pearce

Keats - Complete Poems

Celan - Die Niemandsrose

Complete Shakespeare

The Idiot - Dostoyevsky

Kafka - Letters to Milena

The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmithth Ross Benjamin

Susan Bernofsky - PAUL CELAN AND THE TRANS-TIBETAN ANGEL by Yoko Tawada Sep 05, 2024

Show notes

https://susanbernofsky.com/

Get the book from

https://www.ndbooks.com/book/paul-celan-and-the-trans-tibetan-angel/ in the US

https://www.dialoguebooks.co.uk/titles/yoko-tawada/spontaneous-acts/9780349704234/ in the UK

Gateway books / Authors

Robert Walser

Shirley Hazzard

Angela Carter

Barbra Comyns

Nabokov

Handke

Kobo Abe

Current reads/Looking forward to

The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk

Scholastique Mukasonga - Sister Deborah

Sayaka Murata - new novel

Samanta Schweblin

Yoko Tawada - Suggested in the Stars

Desert Island Books

Uwe Johnson - Anniversaries

Yoko Tawada - The Naked Eye

Rod Moody Corbett - HIDES Aug 29, 2024

Show notes

Rod Moody Corbett

https://rodmoodycorbett.com/fiction/

https://breakwaterbooks.com/products/hides

Current reads / recently enjoyed or looking forward to

American Abductions - Mauro Javier Cárdenas

Europeana - Patrik Ouředník

Joy Williams - Concerning The Future of Souls

The Witches - Stacy Schiff

Greg Gerke - In The Suavity of the Rock

Garielle Lutz - Backwardness.

Desert Island Books

Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson

The Hundred Brothers - Donald Antrim

The Association of Small Bombs - Karan Mahajan

Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry

The Samurai - Helen DeWitt

Mating - Norman Rush

Erasure - Percival Everett

The Wall - Marlen Haushofer

Suttree - Cormac McCarthy

Guy Davenport - The Geography of the Imagination

Brett Biebel - A MASON & DIXON COMPANION Aug 22, 2024

Show notes

Brett Biebel

https://www.brettbiebel.com/books

Buy the book here

https://ugapress.org/book/9780820365831/a-mason-and-dixon-companion/

Gateway books /Authors

Narnia

DFW

Bolano

Ducks, Newburyport

Current reads

Vollmann - Europe Central

Jenny Erpenbeck

Nate Silver - On The Edge

Desert Island Books

Gravity’s Rainbow

Mason and Dixon

2666

Moby Dick

Old Pioneers - Willa Cather

Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James

Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellmann

Friday Night Lights

A Naked Singularity - Sergio De La Pava

Jón Kalman Stefánsson - YOUR ABSENCE IS DARKNESS Aug 15, 2024

Show notes

Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Buy the book from:

https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/new-releases/your-absence-is-darkness/

Gateway books

Master and Margarita - Bulgakov

Halldór Laxness

Gunnar Gunnarsson

Knut Hamsun

Tonio Kröger - Thomas Mann

Moby Dick

Current Reads

Nomad Century - Gaia Vince

Herta Muller

Dante

Desert Island Books

Collected poetry

Your Face Tomorrow

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