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**Beyond The Zero**

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

Latest Episodes:

Chad W Post Oct 21, 2023

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Chad Post

@chadwpost

http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/

Two Month Review Podcast

http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/category/two-month-review/

https://www.openletterbooks.org/

Chad Post Musican

https://www.chadpostmusic.com/

Sarah Booker - NEFANDO by Mónica Ojeda Oct 19, 2023

Show notes

Nefando is out on October 31st - Pre-order here

https://coffeehousepress.org/products/nefando

https://sarahkbooker.com/

@sarahkbooker

Gateway books

On The Road - Kerouac

Lolita - Nabokov

Boquitas pintadas; - Manuel Puig

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez

Current Reads

The Possessed - Elif Batuman

White Teeth - Zadie Smith

Yuri Herrera - Signs Preceding the End of the World

Yoko Tawada - Scattered all over the Earth

Desert Island Books

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli

Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez

Yuri Herrera - Signs Preceding the End of the World

Girl at War / True Biz - Sarah Novic

Fiebre Tropical - Julián Delgado Lopera

Aaron Schneider -THE SUPPLY CHAIN Oct 12, 2023

Show notes

https://www.crowsnestbooks.com/product/the-supply-chain/

http://aaronjschneider.weebly.com/

https://www.thetemzreview.com/

Gateway books

How to Quiet a Vampire - Borislav Pekić

https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810117204/how-to-quiet-a-vampire/

The Fox Was Ever the Hunter - Herta Müller

The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek

Tin Drum - Gunter Grass

Alice Munro

Mario Vargas Llosa

Current reads

South Babak Laghomi

Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys - Aaron Tucker

Falling Hour Geoffrey Morrison

Desert Island Books

Who Do You Think you Are - Alice Munro

Tin Drum - Gunter Grass

The Fox Was Ever the Hunter - Herta Müller

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender - Dubravka Ugrešić

War at the End of the World - Mario Vargas Llosa

To the Lighthouse / Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf

Song of The Lark - Willa Cather

Emmett Stinson - MURNANE Oct 09, 2023

Show notes

Buy Murnane from https://www.mup.com.au/books/murnane-paperback-softback

Lizzie Davis - The Devil of the Provinces by Juan Cárdenas Oct 06, 2023

Show notes

Lizzie Davis

lizzie_davis_

https://lizziedavis.com/

Buy The Devil of the Provinces here :

https://coffeehousepress.org/collections/fiction/products/the-devil-of-the-provinces

Gateway books

Poets including :

Claudia Rankin

Forrest Gander

Frank O'Hara

Letter to a Woman in Paris - Julio Cortazar short story

Ariana Harwicz - Die My Love

Sweet Days of Discipline - Fleur Jaeggy

Current reads / Looking forward to

Empty Houses - Brenda Navaro

Elaine Vilar Madruga - Tyranny of Flies Translated by Kevin Gerry Dunn

Desert Island Books

The Nature Book - Tom Comitta

The Illyad

Mary Ruefle - Madness, Rack and Honey

The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You - by Frank Stanford

Deepstep Come Shining - C.D. Wright

Jack Houghteling - SUNNYSIDE Sep 29, 2023

Show notes

Sunnyside

https://www.jackhoughteling.com/

Gateway books / writers

Elliot and Joyce
John Ashbury
William Falkner
Susan Sontag
William Gaddis
E.L Doctorow

Current reads, recently enjoyed, looking forward to

Flann O’Brian - An Béal Bocht - The Poor Mouth
Hind’s Kidnapp - Joseph McElroy
Mason and Dixon - Pynchon

Desert Island Books

J. M. Coetzee - Foe

Helen DeWitt - Last Samurai

The Breaks of the Game - David Halberstam

Lorenzo in Taos - Mabel Dodge Luhan

Saul Bellow - Seize The Day

Billy Bud - Herman Melville

Paul Lynch - PROPHET SONG Sep 27, 2023

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Paul Lynch - Prophet Song

https://www.paullynchwriter.com/

Frank Santo - THE BIRTHPARENTS Sep 21, 2023

Show notes

Frank Santo

Franksanto.net

@FrankSanto13

Buy The Birthparents here

http://www.tortoisebooks.com/

Gateway books

Pride and Prejudice

Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey

Currently reading/looking forward to/recently enjoyed

Victim - Andrew Boryga out from Double Day books in March 2024.

Broken Bottles - Anthony Koranda

God, Human, Animal, Machine - Meghan O’Gieblyn

Desert Island Books

Catch-22 - Heller

One-Hundred Years of Solitude - GGM

The Quiet American - Greene

Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

The Flashman Series

Sommerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage

Brave New World - Huxley

Milan Kundera - The Joke

Ismael Reed - Mumbo Jumbo

Thomas Bernhard - Extinction

Jeff Bursey - UNIDENTIFIED MAN AT LEFT OF PHOTO Sep 15, 2023

Show notes

Jeff Bursey

https://jeffbursey.ca/

Get Unidentified Man At Edge of Photo here ;

https://coronasamizdat.com/index.php?id_product=49&rewrite=unidentified-man-at-left-of-photo-by-jeff-bursey&controller=product

Gateway books

How and Why book series

The Shadow, The Spider

Groucho Marx books

John Dos Passos - The Big Money

Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Black Spring

Hedda Gabler - Ibsen

William Gaddis - The Recognitions

Blaise Cendrars - Moravagine and Memoirs

Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle

Mervyn Peake - Gormanghast Trilogy

Wyndham Lewis - Apes of God

Currently Reading/Looking forward

Entangled Life - Merlin Sheldrake

Colin Thubron books

Spark - Timothy J. Jorgensen

Richard Lemm - Imagined Truths

Desert Island Books

My Struggle Book 1 - Karl Ove Knausgaard

Blaise Cendrars - Moravagine/Dan Yack

The Recognitions/JR - William Gaddis

Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

Lee. D. Thomson - A Pastoral

John Cooper Powys - A Glastonbury Romance

Bahá'í prayer book.

BABAK LAKGHOMI - South Sep 07, 2023

Show notes

https://www.babaklakghomi.com/

Buy South from Dundern Press

https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459750814-south

Gateway books

John Christopher - Tripod series

The Baron In The Trees - Calvino

When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver

Kafka - The Castle

2666 - Bolaño

Beckett - Trilogy

60 Stories - Donald Barthelme

Wittgenstein’s Mistress - David Markson

Ice - Anna Kavan

Current reads /looking forward to

Solenoid - Marcea Cartarescu

To The Lighthouse - Woolf

The Beetle Leg - John Hawkes

Jon Fosse - The New Name

The Woman Who Lived Among the Cannibals - Robert Kloss

The Illiterate - Agota Kristoff

Begat who Begat who Begat - Marcus Pactor

Desert Island Books

Life A User’s Manual - Perec

Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

Book - Ken Sparling

Bob or a Man on Boats - Peter Markus

In The Blind - Eugene Marten

Ava Carole Maso

Selected stories - Walser

Rose Mellie Rose Marie Redonnet

Stories in Another Language - Yannick Murphy

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