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**Beyond The Zero**

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

Latest Episodes:

Garielle Lutz - BACKWARDNESS Apr 11, 2024

Show notes

Garielle Lutz - Backwardness

Get the book here:

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

Recently enjoyed / Currently Reading / Looking forward to:

The Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Ditlevsen

James Salter

Janet Malcolm

Greg Gerke - The Suavity of the Rock

William Hazlitt

Virginia Woolf - Essays

Mice 1961 - Stacey Levine

Our Long Marvelous Dying - Anna DeForest

Ben Tanzer - THE MISSING Apr 04, 2024

Show notes

Ben Tanzer

https://www.tanzerben.com/

Get The Missing From : https://713books.com/forthcoming/

Gateway books

The Basketball Diaries - Jim Carroll

Cruddy - Linda Barry

Hairstyles of the Dammed - Joe Meno

American Skin - Don De Grazia

Meditations from a Movable Chair - Andre Dubus

Bastard out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison

Torres

Currently reading and looking forward to

Sleeping with Friends - Emily Shultz

The Peer Effect - Syed Ali

Jacket Weather - Mike DeCapite

We Are Too Many - Hannah Pittard

Hanif Abdurraqib - There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Meditations from a Movable Chair - Andre Dubus

Excavatio - Wendy C. Ortiz

Naked - David Sedaris

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsBook - Chuck Klosterman

Robert Chandler - CHEVENGUR by Andrey Platonov Mar 29, 2024

Show notes

Robert Chandler

Buy Chevengur from NYRB

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

Gateway books

Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

War and Peace - Tolstoy

Lord of the Rings - Tolkien

Currently reading;

Emily Dickinson

Dante

John Clare

Andrei Kurkov

Vladimir Sharov

Penelope Fitzgerald

D.H. Lawrence

Desert Island Books

The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence

John Clare

Rudyard Kipling - Kim

Emily Dickinson

Dante

Kieran Goddard - I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING Mar 25, 2024

Show notes

https://www.hachette.com.au/keiran-goddard/i-see-buildings-fall-like-lightning

@keirangoddard1
https://www.keirangoddard.com/

Gateway books

- Albert Camus - The Outsider

- Pablo Neruda - Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Jude The Obscure - Thomas Hardy

Currently Reading

- Édouard Louis - Change

Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis - Nick Bano

Leslie Jamison - Splinters

Desert Island Books

- The Seven Story Mountain - Thomas Merton

-The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes - Jonathan Rose

- Happy Like Murderers - Gordon Burn

- Collected Poems - Elizabeth Bishop

- Collected Poems - Rilke

- D.H. Lawrence - Women in Love

Clemens. J. Setz Mar 17, 2024

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Clemens. J. Setz

Clemens Podcast with Barbra Zeman https://open.spotify.com/show/37bbq41uotsGq4GfM09f9Y?si=24a23d7432ab4ef0

Gateway books / books and authors mentioned

Megan Boyle - Live Blog

Blake Butler - 300 000 000, Molly, AANNEX

Juliet Escoria

Scott McClanahan - The Sarah Book

Kenzaburō Ōe - Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!

Brutt, or The Sighing Gardens - Friederike Mayröcker

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware

Currently reading / Recently enjoyed

Heaven and Hell Book - Emanuel Swedenborg

Mary Ruefle

Christoph Ransmayr - Cox, Or, The Course of Time also new stories coming out.

Desert Island Books

Dictionary of the Brother's Grimm (Deutsches Wörterbuch)

Book of Psalms - Robert Alter

Max Lawton - BLUE LARD by Vladimir Sorokin Mar 07, 2024

Show notes

Max Lawton

@maxdaniellawton

By Blue Lard here

https://www.nyrb.com/products/blue-lard

David Cotner - A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (1973) Feb 23, 2024

Show notes

David Cotner

Buy A History of Violence (1973) here

https://www.ninebandedbooks.com/shop/book/a-history-of-violence-1973/

David's Instagram violencestories

Gateway books

- Orgies and Troilism

- Strangely Enough C.B. Colby

- A Void - Georges Perec

Current reads

Forgotteness by Tanja Maljartschuk

KIKI MAN RAY: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris

- Mark Braude

Nick Solsby - Everything Keeps Dissolving

Maya Deren -Choreographed for CameraBook - Mark Alice Durant

- Norman Mailer - The Fight (Tachen Edition)

Desert Island Books

Alan Watts - The Way of Zen

Death of a Citizen - Donald Hamilton

Henry Miller - Reader

Treasury of David Runyon

Wittgenstein - Uncertainty

Norman Mailer - Cannibals and Christians

Psychotronic Encyclopaedia of Film

Latest Findings - Jaques Vallée

History of Underground Comics

Collected E.E. Cummings

Jenny Croft - THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY Feb 15, 2024

Show notes

http://croftwork.net/about

BUY The Extinction of Irena Rey here :

https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/the-extinction-of-irena-rey-9781761380211

Or https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/extinction-of-irena-rey-9781639731701/

Gateway books / Authors

Anna Karenina

Witold Gombrowicz

Wisława Szymborska

Chekhov

Current Reads

How to be Multiple - Helena de Bres

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Gerald Murnane - Stream System

New Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars

Desert Island Books

Virginie Despentes - Vernon Subutex

Yiyun Li - Short Stories

Proust

Borges

Wisława Szymborska

Carl Philips - poetry

Tania De Rozario - DINNER ON MONSTER ISLAND Feb 08, 2024

Show notes

https://taniaderozario.com/

Buy Dinner on Monster Island here:

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/dinner-on-monster-island-tania-de-rozario?variant=41057238417442&fbclid=IwAR1ODMgac7PZy7Hbjk5EL-pxIpKWcZfs06_kE0yRJ2_Nw-YeT8wKmwXQnHo

Gateway books

IT -Stephen King

Current reads/ Looking forward to :

The Hchom Book - Marian Churchland

Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco - by K. Ive

Big Mall - Kate Black

Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson

Crush - Richard Sikin

Like a Seed with Its Singular Purpose- Cyril Wong

The Gospel of Breaking - Jillian Christmas

Isabel Waidner - COREY FAH DOES SOCIAL MOBILITY Feb 01, 2024

Show notes

Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

Buy the book here:

https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/corey-fah-does-social-mobility

@isabelwaidner

https://linktr.ee/isabelwaidner

Gateway books / Authors

Kafka

Goethe - Faust

Samuel Beckett

Dodie Bellamy

Kevin Killian

Robert Clark

Steve Abbott - The Lizard Club

Currently reading/Recently enjoyed/looking forward to

Hangman - Maya Binyam

Drive Your Plow… Olga Tokarczuk

New Olga Tokaeczuk

Adam Thirlwell - Future Future

Brontez Purnell - Ten Bridges I’ve Burned

Desert Island Books

Drive Your Plow

Corey Fah

Advanced Elvis Course - C.A. Conrad

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