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**Beyond The Zero**

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

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Patrick McCabe - POUGEMAHONE Dec 08, 2022

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Patrick McCabe

Buy Pougemahone here https://unbound.com/books/poguemahone/

Gateway books

Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan

First Love Last Rites - Ian McEwan

The Ginger Man - J.P. Donleavy

Last Day of Summer - Ian McEwan

Current reads

Clive James - Sentenced to Life

Desert Island Books

The Bible - God ?

Ulysses - Joyce

High Windows - Larkin

Clive James - Sentenced to Life

Shakespeare - Shakespeare ?

Megan McDowell - OUR SHARE OF NIGHT Dec 01, 2022

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Megan McDowell

https://www.meganmcdowelltranslation.com

@meganalimcd twitter

@meganamcdowell Instagram

Buy Our Share of Night here https://granta.com/products/our-share-of-night/

Gateway books

Jane Eyre

Great Expectations

Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe

Little Women

Hopscotch - Cortazar

The Wide Saragasso - Sea Jean Rhys

Bolano - 2666

The Book of Disquiet - Pessoa

Current reads

We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

The Friend - Sigrid Nunez

Jawbone - Mónica Ojeda

Desert Island Books

The Neapolitan Novels - Ferrante

Bolano - 2666

Hopscotch - Cortazar

The Book of Disquiet - Pessoa

Necropolis - Santiago Gamboa

Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez

Chilean Poet - Zambra

Fever Dream - Samanta Schweblin

Beloved - Morrison

Louis Paul Boon - Chapel Road

What Belongs to You - Garth Greenwell

Peter Orner - STILL NO WORD FROM YOU Nov 24, 2022

Show notes

Peter Orner

http://peterorner.com

@Peter_orner

Still No Word From You is available from

https://books.catapult.co/books/still-no-word-from-you/

Gateway books

To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

Sound and the Fury - Faulkner

Invisible Man - Ellison

Ulysses - Joyce

Current reads - Javier Cercas - Anatomy of a Moment

Lydia Davis - (translation) Madame Bovary

Isaac B Singer - Stories

Desert Island Books

Edna O’Brian

James Wright

Eudora Welty

Absolom, Absolom - Faulkner

Isaac Babal

John McGahern

Mavis Gallant

Wright Morris

Chekov

Ellison - Essays

Giovanni’s Room - Baldwin

Ben Slotky - AN EVENING OF ROMANTIC LOVEMAKING Nov 17, 2022

Show notes

Ben Slotky

Buy his book from Dalkey

https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/an-evening-of-romantic-lovemaking

Gateway books

Aberration of Starlight - Gilbert Sorrentino

James Ellroy - White Jazz

Kurt Vonnegut

Recently enjoyed

Comac McCarthy - The Passenger

The Tyranny of Algorithms - Miguel Benasayag

Desert Island Books

Aberration of Starlight - Gilbert Sorrentino

Maurizio De Giovanni - Commissario Ricciardi novels

Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir - Norm Macdonald

Thomas Kendall - The Autodidacts Nov 11, 2022

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Thomas Kendall

By the Autodidacts here:

https://whiskeytit.com/product/the-autodidacts/

@TPKendall

Gateway books

Dostoevsky

Yukio Mishima

The Atrocity Exhibition J.G. Ballard

As I Lay Dying - Faulkner

Frisk/Try - Denis Cooper

The Book of Lies/Notebook trilogy - Ágota Kristóf

My Teacher is an Alien - Bruce Coville

Current reads

Olga Ravin - The Employees

Fernanda Melchor - Hurricane Season

Twilight Zone - Nona Fernández

What Are You - Lindsay Lerman

The New House - David Leo Rice

I Wished - Denis Cooper

Desert Island Book

The Book of Lies/Notebook trilogy - Ágota Kristóf

Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky

The Recognitions - Gaddis

The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima

I Wished - Denis Cooper

Isabella Streffen - FABULAE Nov 01, 2022

Show notes

Isabella Streffen

https://www.isabellastreffen.com

@MinxMarple

Get Fabulae How it Begins here:

https://mabibliotheque.cargo.site/Isabella-Streffen-FABULAE-HOW-IT-BEGINS-2022

Gateway books

The Pillow Book - Sei Shōnagon

Selected Poems - Gerard Manley Hopkins

On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection - Susan Stuart

The Pleasure of the Texts - Roland Barthes

Current reads

Chimeras - Daniela Cascella

This agitated Air: Poems After Ibn Arabi - Robin Moger and Yasmine Seale

Swoop - Hailey Leithauser

Desert Island books

Marriage of Cadums and Harmony - Roberto Callaso

The Secret History - Donna Tart

Alphabet - Inger Christensen

The Gaze of Orpheus - Maurice Blanchot

If Not Winter; Fragments of Sappho - Anne Carson

Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research: In the Place of an Object: Special Issue (Jan 2000)

Aureole - Carole Maso

Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hal - Suzette Mayr

The Baudelaire Fractal - Lisa Robertson

Sara Lippmann - LECH Oct 27, 2022

Show notes

Sara Lippmann

https://www.saralippmann.com

@saralippmann

Buy Lech here;

http://www.tortoisebooks.com

Gateway books

Maurice Sendak - In The Night Kitchen

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble - William Steig

Tell Me a Mitzi - Lore Segal

Bernard Malamud - Jewbird (short story

Goodbye Columbus - Philip Roth

Salinger - short stories

Jayne Anne Philips - The Black Tickets

A.M. Holmes -

Richard Yates

Grace Payley

Tilley Olsen

Jerry Stahl - Nein, Nein, Nein

Who By Fire - Matti Friedman

Human - Elisa Albert

Seth Rogoff - Thin Rising Vapours

Peter Orner - Still No Word From You

Desert Island books

Ulysses - Joyce

Magic Mountain - Mann

How to Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan

Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles

The Waves Virginia Woolf

Peter Orner - Am I Alone Here (+all the books he mentions)

Etgar Keret

Kent Haruf - Our Soles (Arseholes) at Night

James Salter

Sabbath’s Theatre - Roth

Marjorie Morningstar - Herman Wouk

Nicole Krauss- History of Love

K Hank Jost - DESELECTIONS Oct 21, 2022

Show notes

K Hank Jost

Order Deselections here

https://whiskeytit.com/product/deselections/

@hank_being_a_better_ape

Listen to Spark Sputter and Die here;

https://linktr.ee/sparksputteranddie

@sparksputteranddie

Gateway books

The Bible

Stephen King

Vonnegut

In The Heart of the Heart of the Country

Current reads

All of Kafka

Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard

Snopes trilogy - William Faulkner

The Iliad

Desert Island Books

The Iliad

Ulysses - Joyce

Moby Dick - Melville

The Recognitions - Gaddis

The Complete Gary Lutz

The Caste - Kafka

In The Heart of the Heart of the Country - William Gass

Dorothy Allison - Bastard Out of Carolina / Cavedweller

Tristrom Shandy - Sterne

Breece D'J Pancake - Short stories

Stream System - Gerald Murnane

Diane Josefowicz - READY, SET, OH Oct 20, 2022

Show notes

Diane Josefowicz

https://www.dianejosefowicz.com

http://necessaryfiction.com

@dianegreco

Buy Ready Set Go here ; https://www.flexiblepub.com/ready-set-oh

Gateway books

Gravity’s Rainbow - Pynchon

Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber

Rikki Durconet - Fountains of Neptune

Current reads

Stories of a Life - Nataliya Meshchaninova (Deep Vellum)

Desert Island Books

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë.

Madame Bovary - Flaubert

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

André Forget - CITY OF PIGS Oct 12, 2022

Show notes

Andre’ Forget

https://andre-forget.com

@ayforge Twitter

@a.y.forget instagram

Order City of Pigs from https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459749085-in-the-city-of-pigs

Gateway book - The Arthuriad

Current reads

Monica Ali - Brick Lane

Maxim Gorky - The Life of Klim Samgin

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At Swim Two Birds - Flann O’Brian

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