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**Beyond The Zero**

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

Latest Episodes:

Chris Andrews Apr 20, 2023

Show notes

Chris Andrews

Currently working on Liliana Colanzi - You Glow in The Dark

Six novel César Aira collection

Gateway books / Writers

Bran the Bronze Smith - J Reason

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Jacobs Ladder -Denise Levertov

Between The Acts - Virginia Woolf

Monkey Grip - Helen Garner

Madame Bovary - Flaubert

Labyrinths - Borges

Current reads / Recently read / Looking forward to

Holly Isemonger - Greatest Hits (Vagabond Press)

The Sun Walks Down - Fiona McFarlane

Chilean Poet - Alejandro Zambra

Fugue States - Pasha Malla

A Shock - Keith Ridgway

Upcoming

The Plains - Frederico Falco - upcoming translation by Jennifer Croft

New Translation of Loin de Rueil by Raymond Queneau by Chris Clarke NYRB

Whatever’s Forbidden the Wise - Anthony Madrid

Desert Island books

Shahnameh - The Book of Kings

In Search of Lost Time - Proust

Raymond Queneau - Odile

Manuel Puig - An Eternal Curse on The Reader of These Pages

The Means of Escape - Penelope Fitzgerald

Collected Poems - Gwen Harwood

Vanilla Wine - Geoff Cochrane

Crow Cottage - Emma Lew

Borges - Adolfo Bioy Casares

Garden of Seven Twilights - Miquel de Palol with MAX LAWTON Apr 04, 2023

Show notes

Max Lawton

@maxdaniellawton

Buy Miquel de Palol’s The Garden of Seven Twilights from

https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/the-garden-of-seven-twilights

Upcoming projects and publications

Upcoming 2023 - New Sorokin short stories, Blue Laird.

Schattenfroh - Michael Lenz (Sample)

See

https://theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/schattenfroh-by-michael-lentz/

Songs of Chaos - Antonio Moresco (sample)

See

https://theuntranslated.wordpress.com/tag/songs-of-chaos/

Oğuz Atay - Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected)

Current read and recommendations

Out of The World / Wolves from The Forest of Eternity - Knausgaard

The Shards - BEE

Hakan Günday - books

Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger/Stella Maris

Youval Shimoni - THE SALT LINE with Philip Hollander Mar 30, 2023

Show notes

The Salt Line by Youval Shimoni

Translated by Michael Sharp

Available through https://www.crowsnestbooks.com/product/saltline/

Philip Hollander

https://nes.princeton.edu/people/philip-hollander

Gateway books /authors

Yoseph Chaim Brenner

Currently reading

The Salt Line and The Room by Youval Shimoni

Looking forward to - Through the Transparent Floor - Youval Shimoni

Desert island books

Even-Shoshan Dictionary
Shai Agnon - Only Yesteryear and Simple Story
ימי צקלג, - S. Yizhar (Days of Ziklag)
Yaakov Shabtai - זכרון דברים - (Past Continuous)
William Falkner - Light in August

A.V. Marracchini - WE THE PARASITES Mar 26, 2023

Show notes

A.V. Marraccini

https://avmarraccini.com/

@saintsoftness

Buy We The Parasites here:

https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/we-the-parasites

Gateway books /authors

Susan Sontag
Ursula Le Guin
The Iliad

Current Reads

Esther Kinsky - Rombo - Trans - Caroline Schmidt
Marco Polo’s Travels - Trans - Nigel Cliff

Desert Island/ Windowless data centre books

Leob Classical Library editions

Richard Milward - MAN-EATING TYPEWRITER Mar 17, 2023

Show notes

Richard Milward

https://www.richardmilward.com/

Buy Man-Eating Typewriter here:

https://www.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/titles/richard-milward/man-eating-typewriter/9781399602013/

Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3aJgqfOTyIeA491ag7NhAr?si=058bc75e876941fe

Gateway books / writers

Alan Warner - Morvern Callar

Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting

Richard Brautigan

Kerouac

Hunter. S. Thomson - Naked Lunch

Nadia - André Breton

Nabokov

Pynchon

Current reads / recently enjoyed / looking forward

Charles Bukowski - Post Office

New American Poetry - 1945-1960

Ali Millar - The Last Days

Interviews with Francis Bacon - David Sylvester

Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History - Derek Sayer

Alex Danchev - Magritte - A Life

Desert Island Books

Lolita and Pale Fire - Nabokov

The Essential Ginsburg

Gravity’s Rainbow

Monument Maker - David Keenan

Mark Polizzotti - The Life of André Breton

Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 - Georges Bataille

Patrick DeWitt- The Sisters Brothers

The Giro Playboy - Michael Smith

Christopher Bollen - THE LOST AMERICANS Mar 16, 2023

Show notes

Christopher Bollen - The Lost Americans

https://www.christopherbollen.com/

@christbollen instagram

@christobollen twitter

Gateway books/authors

Agatha Christie

Kurt Vonnegut

Sylvia Plath

Joan Didion

Current reads/ recently enjoyed/ looking forward to

Hernán Díaz - Trust

Fruiting Bodies: Stories - Kathryn Harlan

If I Survive You - Jonathan Escoffery

Desert Island Books

Graeme Green - The Quite American, The Comedians, Ministry of Fear

The Executioners Song - Norman Mailer

The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie

The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton

Allan Hollinghurst - The Folding Star

Agatha Christie - Then There Where None, Death on the Nile, A Murder is Announced

Joan Didion - After Henry

Andrés Neuman - BARILOCHE Mar 14, 2023

Show notes

Andrés Neuman

Buy Bariloche here:

https://www.openletterbooks.org/collections/andres-neuman

Currently reading / recently enjoyed /looking

The Care Manifesto

Las malas -Camila Sosa Villada

Armonía Somers

Mariana Enriquez - Alguien camina sobre tu tumba

Delphine Horvilleur - Living With Our Dead Ones

Partes de guerra - Jorge Volpi

Elena Garro - Los recuerdos del porvenir / Recollections of Things to Come

Yuri Herrera - Ten Planets

Oliver Mol - TRAINLORD Mar 09, 2023

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Oliver Mol

@trainlord

Buy the book here :

https://www.penguin.com.au/books/train-lord-9780241525074

ALSO BUY GRIMMISH

Gateway books

Henry Sugar - Roald Dahl

Tintin - Hergé.

Current reads / recently enjoyed / looking forward to

A Fan’s Notes - Frederick Exley

Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles

Willa Cather - My Ántonia

Robbie Arnott - Limberlost

Constance Debré - Play Boy

Cold Enough For Snow - Jessica Au

Mariana Enriquez - Our Share of Night

Desert Island Books

Alejandro Zambra - Bonsai

Train Dreams / Angels - Denis Johnson

Tove Jansson - The Summer Book

Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky

Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen

Battles in the Desert - José Emilio Pacheco

The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien

Natasha Wimmer - VOYAGER by Nona Fernández Mar 02, 2023

Show notes

Natasha Wimmer

https://natashawimmer.com/

Buy Voyager by Nona Fernández here

https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/voyager

Currently working on:

Falsa Guerra — Carlos Manuel Álvarez

Álvaro Enrigue - You Dreamed of Empires

Gateway books

Nada - Carmen Laforet

Claudine novels - Colette

Norman Rush - Mating

Willa Cather - Song of the Lark

V.S. Naipaul - A House for Mr Biswas

Ben Lerner - Leaving the Atocha Station

Current reads /recently enjoyed

Enrique Krauze - Spinoza en el Parque México

Recollections of things to come - Elena Garro

Brenda Lozano - Loop

Catherine Lacey - Pew

Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez

Chilean Poet - Alejandro Zambra

The Body Where I Was Born - Guadalupe Nettel

Tomb Song: A Novel - Julián Herbert

Desert Island Books

To The Light House - Virginia Woolf

In Search of Lost Time - Proust

The Complete Stories of Deborah Eisenberg

Henry James - The Golden Bowl

Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain

Javier Mariás - Your Face Tomorrow series

Bruce Wagner Feb 24, 2023

Show notes

Buy Roar here:

https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781956763263/roar/

Bruce Wagner

https://www.brucewagner.la

Gateway books /authors

Jean Genet

Raymond Radiguet

Henry Miller

Hubert Selby Jr- The Room

Kim - Rudyard Kipling

Dickens

Current reads /recently enjoyed

Lincoln in the Bardo

Cause Unknown - The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths - Ed Dowd

Desert Island book

The Conference of the Birds

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