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**Beyond The Zero**

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

Latest Episodes:

Thomas Legendre - SPRING FEVER Jun 29, 2023

Show notes

https://www.thomaslegendre.com/

Spring Fever is out now through Valley Press

https://www.valleypressuk.com/shop/p/spring-fever

Gateway Books

Sherlock Holmes

Martin Amis - London Fields

Annie Proulx - Shipping News

Don DeLillo

Cormac McCarthy

Nabokov

Edith Wharton

Borges

Current Reads/ recently enjoyed/ looking Forward to

Burntcoat - Sarah Hall

Patricia Dunker- Sophie and the Civil

Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick

Colson Whitehead - Crook Manifesto

Alan Warner - Nothing Left to Fear From Hell

Elizabeth Lindsay Rogers - The Tilt Torn Away From The Seasons

Hoodwitch - Faylita Hicks

Headless John The Baptist Hitchhiking - C. T. Salazar

Desert Island Books

Middlemarch - George Elliot

Jayne Eyre - Brontë

Collected Borges

London Field/House of Meetings - Martin Amis

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

Tristrom Shandy - Sterne

Michael Gerard - AFTERALL Jun 24, 2023

Show notes

Michael Gerard

@39mgerard93

Gateway Books

Ethan Frome Edith Wharton

Tao Lin Taipei

Current reads / Looking forward to

Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fantastic Fictions - Sam Pink

Shane Jesse Christmas - new book

Desert Island Books

Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton

E.E. Cummings - Collected works

Joel Warner - THE CURSE OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE Jun 21, 2023

Show notes

Joel Warner - The Curse of the Marquis de Sade

https://www.joelwarner.com/

www.levernews.com

Gateway books

Jonathan Harr - The Lost Painting

Current reads / recently enjoyed or looking forward

The Act of Oblivion - Robert Harris

Killers of the Flower Moon - David Gran

Desert Island Books

The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck

The Adventures of Cavilier and Clay - Michael Chabon

Middlesex - Jeffery Eugenides

Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem

Priscilla Gilman - THE CRITIC'S DAUGHTER Jun 15, 2023

Show notes

Priscilla Gilman

https://www.priscillagilman.com/

@priscillagilman

@priscilla.gilman Instagram

Gateway books

The Phantom Tollboth - Norton Juster

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Betsy- Tacy books

Paddington - Michael Bond

Charlotte’s Web

Song of Solomon

Wuthering Heights

Great Expectations

Current reads/recently enjoyed/ looking forward to

Lone Women - Victor LaValle

Ann Beattie - new collection - Onlookers

Andrew Porter - The Disappeared

The Netanyahu’s - Josh Cohen

Desert Island Books

Norton Anthology of poetry

Collected Poetry - Wordsworth

Omnibus Jane Austen

To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

Great Expectations - Dickens

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Riverside Shakespeare

Alice Jolly - FROM FAR AROUND THEY SAW US BURN Jun 01, 2023

Show notes

Alice Jolly

http://alicejolly.com/wp/

@JollyAlice

https://unbound.com/authors/alice-jolly

Gateway books /authors

Graham Greene

E.M. Forster

Current reads / recently enjoyed/ looking forward to

House of Doors - Tan Tan Eng

North Woods - Daniel Mason (Sept)

Desert Island Books:

The Chosen - Elizabeth Lowry

Poems of R.S. Thomas

Return of The Soldier - Rebecca West

Light Years - James Salter

Shirley Hazard - The Great Fire

Omensetter’s Luck - William H Gass

Last Exit to Brooklyn - Robert Selby Jr

John Wray - Gone To The Wolves May 24, 2023

Show notes

John Wray

http://www.johnwray.net/

Buy Gone to The Wolves here

https://bookshop.org/p/books/gone-to-the-wolves-john-wray/18789111?ean=9780374603335

Gateway books

Lord of the Rings

Alice in Wonderland / Through The Looking Glass

Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg - Ohio

William S Burroughs

Current reads /looking forward to

Red Dragon - Thomas Harris

I’m With The Band - Pamela Des Barres

La Capital - The Biography of Mexico City - Jonathan Kandell

Biography of X - Catherine Lacy

Trust - Hernan Diaz

Desert Island books

Alice and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

Islandia - Austin Tappan Wright

Collected Short Stories of Anton Chekov

The Palm Wine Drinkard - Amos Tutuola

Ross MacDonald - Collection

Lincoln in The Bardo - George Saunders

Shirley Hazzard - The Transit of Venus

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce

I Am Ozzy - Ozzie Osbourne

Paul Dalgarno - A COUNTRY OF ETERNAL LIGHT May 19, 2023

Show notes

Paul Dalgarno

https://www.pauldalgarno.com/

@PaulDalgarno Twitter

@narrativefriction Instagram

Gateway books

Trainspotting

Catch 22

How Late it Was, How Late - James Kelman

The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway

Also mentioned - Jenni Fagan

Current reads / Looking forward to

Dress Rehearsals - Madison Godfrey

Here be Monsters - Richard King

Wall - Jen Craig

Desert Island Books

Don Quixote

Hopscotch - Julio Cortazár

Loitering With Intent - Muriel Spark

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg

The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead

Too Much Lip - Melissa Lucashenko

Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky

The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro

Wuthering Heights - Brontë

Frankenstein - Mary Shelly

Seth Rogoff - THE KIRSCHBAUM LECTURES May 13, 2023

Show notes

Seth Rogoff

https://sethrogoff.com/

Buy his book here

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

Gateway books

Gore Vidal

Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf

Heinrich von Kleist - Michael Kohlhaas

James Baldwin - Another Country

To The Light House - Virginia Woolf

Danilo Kiš - Garden Ashes

Current reads

Adam Ehrlich Sachs - Organs of Sense
Heavy: An American Memoir - Kiese Laymon
Faces in The Crowd - Valeria Luiselli
Mr Samler’s Planet - Bellow
Three Days Before the Shooting - Ellison

Desert island books

Kafka - The Castle

Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight

Seymour an Introduction - J.D Salinger

Waiting for The Barbarians - Coetzee

The Mediterranean - Fernand Braudel

The Bible - God (tbc)

Garin Cycholl - Rx May 05, 2023

Show notes

Garin Cycholl

@gcycho1

Buy Rx here https://atmospherepress.com/books/rx-by-garin-cycholl/

Gateway books

Maximus Poems - Charles Olsen

Barry Hannah - Ray and Airships

Laird Hunt - Indiana Indiana, Zorrie

Ben Metcalf - Against The Country

Mike Davis - City of Quartz

Current reads

Percival Everett - The Trees

Hanif Abdurraqib - A Little Devil in America

Solenoid - Cartarescu

Alexander Hammond - The World and All That it Holds

Dan Egan - The History of Phosphorus

Colson Whitehead - Crook Manifesto

Desert island Books

Poe Stories

Brothers K - Dostoyevsky

The Recognitions - Gaddis

Inherent Vice - Pynchon

Suttree - McCarthy

Cecilia Vicuña - poems

The Plains - Murnane

Woolf - The Waves

M.F.K Fisher - The Gastronomical Me

Ed Roberson - To See the Earth Before The End of The World

Mickle Maher - The Stangerer

Maxwell Olin Massa - HOUSE OF APOLLO May 01, 2023

Show notes

Maxwell Olin Massa

https://www.maxwellolinmassa.com/

Buy House of Apollo here

https://whiskeytit.com/product/house-of-apollo/

Outlook English program links

Outlook English explores the dairy farm: https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTMxNzM2MjQ=.html
Outlook English experiences Beijing culture: https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTMxMTczOTY=.html
Outlook English welcomes the Beijing Olympics (ep. 1): https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzEyNzA0NzY=.html
Outlook English welcomes the Beijing Olympics (ep. 2): https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzEyNjk1MDg=.html
Outlook English welcomes the Beijing Olympics (ep. 3): https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzEyNjgyNjA=.html
Outlook English welcomes the Beijing Olympics (ep. 4): https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzEyOTIzNTI=.html
Outlook English welcomes the Beijing Olympics (ep. 5): https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzEyNzAwNzY=.html

Gateway Books

Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast
Walter M. Miller JR - A Canticle for Leibowitz

Current reads

The Iliad

Desert Island Books

Poetry Han Shan
The Iliad
Diary of Samuel Pepys

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