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**Beyond The Zero**

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

Latest Episodes:

DBC Pierre - BIG SNAKE LITTLE SNAKE Feb 17, 2023

Show notes

DBC Pierre

http://www.dbcpierre.com

Buy Big Snake Little Snake here :

https://www.cheeriopublishing.com

Gateway books

Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall

On The Road - Kerouac

Gore Vidal - Duluth

Current reads/recently enjoyed/looking forward to

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Transylvania Trilogy - Miklós Bánffy

Grey Seas Under - Farley Mowat

Desert Island Books

Papillon - Henri Charrière

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay

Lila- Robert. M. Pirsig

The Complete Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova - Translated by Arthur Machen

Kate Evans - ABC Radio National Feb 12, 2023

Show notes

Kate Evans

@HistoryGirlKate

@RadioNational

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-bookshelf

Gateway books

Ethel Turner - Seven Little Australians

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

Michale Ondaatje - The English Patient / In the Skin of a Lion

Kerry Hume - The Bone People

Current Reads / recently enjoyed /looking forward to

Audrey Magee - The Colony

Age of Vice - Deepdi Kapoor

A Day of Fallen Night - Samantha Shannon

Sebastian Barry - Old God’s Time

Salman Rushdie - Victory City

Laura McPhee Brown - Little Plum

Alexis Wright - Praiseworthy

Melissa Lucahshenko’ - Edenglassie

Margaret Atwood - Old Babes in the Wood.

Mai Phan Que Nguyen - Dustchild

River Sing Me Home - Eleanor Shearer

Kevin Jared Hosein - Hungry Ghosts

Arinze Ifeakandu - God's Children Are Little Broken Things

Becky Manawatu - Auē

Desert Island books

In the Skin of A Lion - Michale Ondaatje

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Pat Barker - Regeneration Trilogy

Peter Carey - Illywacker

Fiona McFarlane - A Son Looked down

A.S. Byatt - Possession

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall

Lousie Erdich - LaRose

Mick Herron - Slow Horses Series

Robbie Arnot - The Rain Heron

Ross Benjamin - THE KAFKA DIARIES Feb 05, 2023

Show notes

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 Highsmith

Dawn Raffel - BOUNDLESS AS THE SKY Jan 27, 2023

Show notes

Dawn Raffel

https://www.dawnraffel.com

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

Gateway books -

War and Peace

Grace Paley - Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

I Stand Here Ironing - Tillie Olsen

Flannery O’Connor

North American Review

The Quarterly

Current reads /Looking forward to

The Lighted Burrow: A Sanatorium Journal - Max Blecher

The Radezkey March - Joseph Roth

Moby Dick

The Jazz Palace - Mary Morris

The Kirschbaum Lectures - Seth Rogoff

Desert Island books

War and Peace

Metamorphosis - Ovid

A River Runs Through it - Norman Maclean

Merve Emre Jan 19, 2023

Show notes

Merve Emre

https://www.merveemre.com

@mervatim

Gateway books

Matilda - Roald Dahl

If On A Winters Night A Traveller - Calvino

A Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

Portrait of a Lady

Current reads /Looking forward to

Orlando Furioso - Ludovico Ariosto

Quaderno proibito (The Forbidden Notebook) - Alba de Céspedes - Translated by Ann Goldstein

Catherine Lacey - The Biography of X

White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin - Michael W. Clune

Desert Island books

Don Quixote - Cervantes

Clarissa - Samuel Richardson

Middlemarch - George Elliot

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - Erich Auerbach

Ulysses - Joyce

Collected Works of Beckett

Collected Diaries of Virginia Woolf

Translations by Anne Carson (With Greek)

The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt

Septology - Jon Fosse

The Annotated Arabian Nights - New translation by Yasmine Seale

Ben Harnett - THE HAPPY VALLEY Jan 12, 2023

Show notes

Ben Harnett

Get The Happy Valley here:

https://www.thehappyvalleynovel.com

https://www.benjaminharnett.com

Gateway books

Middlemarch

Moby Dick

Current reads

Nixon agonistes - Garry Wills

Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy - Elizabeth Popp Berman

Alec Guinness - Memoirs

We Have Never Been Modern - Bruno Latour

The Greeks and the irrational - E. R. Dodds

The Evening Hero - Marie Myong-Ok Lee

The Logic of Practice - Pierre Bourdieu

Iris Murdoch

Desert Island Books

The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

Capital and Ideology - Thomas Piketty

Jane Austen - Complete works

Moby Dick

Thomas Moore - FOREVER/ALONE Jan 06, 2023

Show notes

Thomas Moore

@thomasmoronic

Buy Alone and Forever here :

https://amphetaminesulphate.bigcartel.com

Other work here

http://www.kiddiepunk.com

Gateway books

George Bataille - Story of the Eye

Marguerite Duras - The Malady of Death

Denis Cooper

Lawerence Braithwaite - Wigger, Ratz are Nice

Yukio Mashima - Confessions of a Mask

Current Reads/recently enjoyed

Isabelle Nicou - Stricture

Audrey Szasz - Zealous Immaculate

Lindsay Lerman - What Are You

Nate Lippens - My Dead Book

Denis Cooper - I Wished

Looking forward to The Shards - Brett Easton Ellis

New stuff Phillip Best and Audrey Szasz

Desert Island Books

Denis Cooper - Period

Joan Didion - Play it as it Lays

Kevin Killian - Spread Eagle

Wigger - Lawrence Braithwaite

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Brendan Riley - ANTAGONY Dec 23, 2022

Show notes

Brendan Riley

https://brendanriley2020.wordpress.com/about/

Twitter @BPRileyCTSp2Eng

Buy Antagony here https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/antagony

Gateway Books

Ovid

D.H. Lawerence

Aldus Huxley

Lauren Eisley

Peter Matthiessen

Michael Ondaatje

John McPhee

Gary Synder

Robinson Jeffers

Current Reads

London Fields - Martin Amis

Iain Sinclair - Down River

The Five - Hallie Rubenhold

Gary Snyder - The Great Clod

NeuroTribes - Steve Silberman

Literary Translations and the Making of Originals - Karen Emmerich

Desert Island Books

Collected Shakespeare

The Metamorphoses - Ovid

Moby Dick

Gary Snyders- Mountains and Rivers Without End

Collected Yates

Collected Borges

Cities of The Red Night - Burroughs

Absolom Absolom -

Dickens - Our Mutual Friend.

End of Year Special part 2 Dec 22, 2022

Show notes

Due to character limits full show notes are available here

https://beyondthezeropodcast.substack.com/p/show-notes-end-of-year-special?sd=pf

and limited notes are below

Gabriel Blackwell and Elijah Moss

Gabriel’s Highlights:

Elfriede Jelinek - Greed
Dog Solstadt’s Armand V
Jon Fosse - Septology
All of Jon Fosse’s Fiction - Boathouse, Alas at the Fire
Hélène Gaudy- A World Without no Shore
The Observant - Ravi Mangla
Adam McComber- Fantasy Kit

Elijah Moss:

Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
2666 - Bolano
The Tunnel - Gass
Laughter in the Dark - Nabokov
Ulysses - Joyce
Age of Wire and String - Ben Marcus -
Rilke - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Letter of Humanism by Heidegger
John Hawkes - The Cannibal, The Lime Twig,
City of Glass - Paul Auster

Gabriel Looking Forward to:

Kathryn Gammon - The Martyrs The Lovers
Jenn Craig’s Wall
Miss Macintosh My Darling

Elijah Looking forward to

Clarice Lispector - Complete Collection
Infinite Jest
The Combinations by Louis Armand
Middle C by William H Gass (reread)
Gravity’s Rainbow

Iain Smith

Best Reads from 2022
The Logos by Mark De Silva
Waypoint - By Adam Ouston
St Sebastians Abyss - Mark Haber
Rodrigo Fresan (the Remembered Part)
Antagony - Goytisolo
Doomtown by Gabriel Blackwell
Mount Chicago by Adam Levin
Solenoid Cartarescu

Others (non 2022)

Bubblegum by Adam Levin
Monument Maker David Keenan

2023 Looking Forward To

The Garden of the Seven Twilights by Miquel de Palol
Summa Kaotica by Ventura Amettler
Marshland - Otohiko Kaga (trans, Albert Novac) - 960 pages
The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier
Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante (NYRB July next year)

Michael Winkler

Grimmish out in America through Coachhouse and in the UK through Peninsula in 2023

Highlights;

Ryan O’Connor - The Voids

Trainlord - Oliver Mol

Hold your Fire Chloe Wilson

She is Haunted - Paige Clarke

Beth Spencer - The Age of Fibs

Adam Ouston - Waypoints

Ben Walter - What Fear Was

Limberlost - Robbie Arnott

2023 looking forward to

Prince Harry

Wall - Jen Craig

Robert Skinner - I’d Rather Not

Avner Landes

Highlights

Curzio Malaparte - The Skin

Looking forward to

Tomas Nevison - Javier Marias

Jerry Stahl - NEIN, NEIN, NEIN Dec 15, 2022

Show notes

Jerry Stahl

@somejerrystahl

Buy Nein, Nein, Nein from:

https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/nein-nein-nein/

Gateway books

Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr

Nathanael West- Miss Lonelyhearts

Bruce J Friedman - Stern, A Mother’s Kisses

Samuel Beckett- Watt

Celine - Death on the Instalment Plan

Roth - Portnoy’s Complaint

Current reads

Jonathan Ames - The Wheel of Doll

Bruce Wagner - Roar

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Roth - Opperation Shylock

James Ellroy - The Storm /American Tabloid

Ada - Nabokov

Flannery O’Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find

Gravity’s Rainbow - Pynchon

Witz - Joshua Cohen

Nick Tosches - Dino

Desert Island Books

Weegee - Naked City

Diane Arbus - Untitled

Dante - The Inferno

Ulysses - Joyce

The Bothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky

Gravity’s Rainbow - Pynchon

DFW - Collected works

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