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**Beyond The Zero**

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

Latest Episodes:

Emmett Stinson Nov 19, 2021

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Emmett Stinson

@EmmettStinson

Gateway books

A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jnr

Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

Current reading, TBR and Recently enjoyed

Novel Explosives - Jim Gaur

House of all Nations - Christina Stead

Complete Stories - Clarice Lispector

Last Letter to a Reader - Gerald Murnane

Daronville’s Cat Alexander Theroux

Louis Armand - The Combinations

Prae - Miklós Szentkuthy

Adam Buenosayres - Leopoldo Marechal

Gregor Von Rizzori - Abel and Cain

Prairie Earth - William Least Heat-Moon

Kin -Miljenko Jergović

Havoc - Tom Kristensen

Larva - Julián Ríos

Belle du Seigneur -Albert Cohen

The Dying Grass - Vollmann

Top 10

1.) Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis

2.) The Recognitions - William Gaddis

3.) Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things - Gilbert Sorrentino

4.) Middlemarch - George Elliot

5.) 2666 Roberto Bolaño

6.) A Million Windows - Gerald Murnane

7.) Nightwood - Djuna Barnes

8.)Panthers and the Museum of Fire - Jen Craig

9.) The Lost Scrapbook - Evan Dara

10.) The Counterfeiters Andre Gide

Ryan Alexander Nov 12, 2021

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Ryan Alexander

- Twitter @ryanhasbadtaste

- Instagram @therepublicofbadtaste

Vollmannia podcast @vollmannia coming in 2022

Gateway Books

- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

- Hamlet

- Goosebumps

- Salem's Lot

- Arguably - Christopher Hitchens

TBR

· The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk; translated by Jennifer L. Croft

· The Plains, Inland, A Million Windows, Border Districts by Gerald Murnane

· Doppelgänger, Leica Format, Trieste, Belladonna, EEG by Daša Drndić; translated by S.D. Curtis, Celia Hawkesworth, and Ellen Elias-Bursać

· Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald; translated by Michael Hulse and Anthea Bell

· Mr. Theodore Mundstock, The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks; translated by Iris Urwin and Eva M. Kandler

· Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories by Tadeusz Borowicki; translated by Madeline G. Levine

· Satantango, The Melancholy of Resistance, War & War, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai; translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet

· Like a Tear in the Ocean, Vols. I-III by Manès Sperber; translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon

· The Book of Blam, The Use of Man, Kapo by Aleksandar Tišma; translated by Michael Henry Heim, Bernard Johnson, and Richard Williams

· A Dreambook for Our Time, A Minor Apocalypse by Tadeusz Konwicki; translated by David Welsh and Richard Lourie

· Nostalgia, Blinding, Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu; translated by Julian Semilian and Sean Cotter

· Kin by Miljenko Jergović; translated by Russell Scott Valentino
- Frost by Thomas Bernhard; translated by Michael Hofmann

· The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz; translated by Celina Wieniewska

· Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

· Lookout Cartridge, A Smuggler’s Bible, Hind’s Kidnap by Joseph McElroy

Top 10

10. Women and Men by Joseph McElroy

9. The Doll’s Alphabet by Camilla Grudova

8. How to Quiet a Vampire: A Sotie by Borislav Pekić; translated by Stephen M. Dickey and Bogdan Rakić

7. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell; translated by Charlotte Mandell

6. Beloved by Toni Morrison

5. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle

4. Ice by Anna Kavan

3. Rising Up and Rising Down, Vol I: Three Meditations on Death, The Days of the Niblungs, Definitions for Lonely Atoms by William T. Vollmann

2. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

1. Moby-Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville

David Keenan Nov 04, 2021

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

www.whiterabbitbooks.com

Gateway books

Under The Volcano

Lester Bangs - Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

Currently reading / TBR

Burning Man: The ascent of D.H. Lawrence - Frances Wilson

Mona - Pola Oloixarac

Selected Letters - John Berryman

The World of Bob Dylan - Sean Lathem

Maximus Poems - Charles Olsen (reread)

(See also - A Guide to The Maximus Poems of Charles Olson - George Butterick)

Strandings: Confessions of a Whale Scavenger - Peter Riley

(Forthcoming Feb 2022)

Top 10

Aqua Viva - Clarise Lispector

Moravagine - Blaise Cendrars

Maximus Poems - Charles Olsen

Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry

Monastic Architecture of France - Joan Evans

Lipstick Faces - Drew Marcus

In the Sierra - Mountain Writings Kenneth Rexroth

The Love Object Edna O’Brian

Leviathan - Paul Auster

Lester Bangs - Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

Rick Harsch Oct 29, 2021

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Rick Harsch

https://rickharsch.wordpress.com

https://coronasamizdat.com

@harsch_rick twitter

Rick.harsch@gmail.com

@rick.harsch instagram

Currently reading

Blood Meridian - Reread

Oskar Submerges, by Zachary Tanner

The Wolf Leaps, by Chandler Brossard

Bedraggling Grandma with Russian Snow, by Joao Reis

1.) Moby Dick - Melville

2.) Finnegans Wake - Joyce

3.) Middlemarch - Austen

4.) Alvaro Mutis

5.) Trieste - Daša Drndić

6.) Conversation in the Cathedral - Vargos Llosa

7.) Blaise Cendrars -Moravagine

8.) Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer

9.) Beckett Trilogy

10.) Don Quixote

Tex Gresham Oct 22, 2021

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Tex Gresham

https://squeakypig.com

@thatsqueakypig

Sunflower is out 22nd of November through Spaceboy Books

https://readspaceboy.com/portfolio/sunflower/

Gateway Book

Valis - Philip K Dick

Currently reading

Search History - Eugene Lim

Ordinary People - Judith Guest

Top 10

1.) Inherent Vice - Pynchon

2.) Underworld - Don Delillo

3.) Valis - PKD

4.) Broom of The System - DFW

5.) American Psycho - BEE

6.) Dear Cyborgs Eugene Lim

7.) The Archive of Alternative Endings - Lindsay Gregor

8.) Bear - Marian Engel

9.) Factotem - Charles Bukowski

10.) Dark Tower - The Gunslinger - Stephen King.

Also mentioned -

Mammother by Zachary Schomburg

Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan

Courtenay S. Gray Oct 15, 2021

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Courtenay S. Gray

https://courtenayscorner.com

http://www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2021/10/poetry-selections-from-courtenay-s-gray.html?m=1

http://www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2021/09/fiction-skin.html?m=1

Upcoming work in

https://gutslutpress.wordpress.com/g-u-t-s-l-u-t-new-site-new-press-check-back-soon/

https://www.miserytourism.com/category/fiction-poetry/

https://expatpress.com

Gateway book

Lolita - Nabokov

Georges Bataille - Story of the Eye

Jack Moody - Dancing to Broken Records

Brett Easton-Ellis - American Psycho

Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead

Simone de Beauvoir - Letters to Sartre

Top 10

1. )Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

2.) Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway

3.) Love is a Dog From Hell - Charles Bukowski

4.) Age of Reason - Sartre

5.) Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

6.) Fata Morgana - William Kotzwinkle

7.) The Tunnel - Ernesto Sabato

8.) A Spy in the House of Love Anaïs Nin

9.) Notes From the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

10.) Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille

George Salis Oct 08, 2021

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George Salis

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Links

https://thecollidescope.com

https://georgesalis.wordpress.com

https://www.patreon.com/TheCollidescope

Satanic Verses podcast - https://www.booksofsomesubstance.com/books/salman-rushdies-the-satanic-verses-guest-george-salis?fbclid=IwAR3G_D0VNm0UMtq212n1Jmnap5TjSV6xRV_dTmGLjFHdsnLnJs_RLl9Wsnc

Gateway books

Hitch 22 - Christopher Hitchens

Currently reading

Horseplay - Lee Siegel - (also Love in a dark language)

Lance Olsen - Dream Lives of Debris

Mircea Cărtărescu - Nostalgia

João Guimarães - Rosa The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

My Horse and Other Stories - Stacy Levine

Gregor Von Risori - Abel and Cain

Book of Portraiture - Steve Tomasulo (also Vass)

Ibrahim Al-Koni - Anubis and The Fetishists

Tom Mallin's - Erowina

Top 10

Ulysses - James Joyce

Infinite Jest - DFW

Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie

Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino (see also Mulligan Stew - Gillbert Sorrentino review coming up on The Collidescope)

Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Underworld - Don Delilo

Darconville’s Cat - Alexander Theroux

Jasper Fforde Oct 01, 2021

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Jasper Fforde

www.jasperfforde.com

Gateway Book;

Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

Current reads;

You Are Not Sparrows: A Light-Hearted Account of Flying Between the Wars - by S.J. Carr

Top 10

True Grit - Charles Portis

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About - Mill Millington

He Died With A Felafel in his Hand - John Birmingham

1927 - Bill Bryson

Moomin - Tove Jansen

Catch-22 Joseph Heller

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

Tiger Tiger - Alfred Bester (AKA The Stars My Destination)

Alice in Wonderland / Through The Looking Glass Lewis Carroll

Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

Douglas Adams - All books

Grim Short Story Comp - write your story as a review on danmurphys.com.au and share with us via twitter @beyondzeropod or email to beyondthezeropod@gmail.com Shortlisted entries will be read on the show and the winner will receive a signed copy of Grimmish from Michael Winkler.

Michael Winkler Sep 24, 2021

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Grim Short Story Competition;

Entries are open from 24th of September and close on 22nd of October. To submit go to www.danmurphys.com.au and submit your story as a review of a product. Be creative ! Screenshot or send us a link once your entry is live and send to beyondthezeropod@gmail.com or tweet to @beyondzeropod #grim

10 stories will be shortlisted and read on the podcast. The winner will receive a signed copy of Grimmish.

Here is an example;

https://www.danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_73011/mcwilliam-s-royal-reserve-dry-apera (see review titled nothing on earth)

Michael Winkler

Top ten

1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

2. The Outsider by Albert Camus

3. The Sweet Science by AJ Liebling

4. The Unquiet Grave by Palinurus (Cyril Connolly)

5. If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him! The pilgrimage of psychotherapy patients by Sheldon B. Kopp

6. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

7. Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

8. A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews

9. Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin

10. The Vivisector by Patrick White/The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser

Gateway book:

- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig

- Plus Bony books (Arthur Upfield), Agatha Christie books

Recent pleasures:

- My Duck Is Not Your Duck by Deborah Eisenberg

- Tell Me Why by Archie Roach

- It gets me home, this curving track by Ian Penman

- Make it Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie Jamison

- Blacktop Wasteland by SA Crosby

- The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy

- Shirl by Wayne Marshall

- 501 Minutes to Christ by Poe Ballantine

Links;

https://www.michaelwinkler.com.au

John 'NR' Wayne (AKA Travis Meyer) Sep 20, 2021

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Meyer's Megafictional Musings

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkNIZdug9XtuCHalq-LtBpw

Twitter @nr_wayne

Instagram @meyers_megafictional_musings

Gateway Books

Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz

Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein

Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead

Currently Reading / TBR / Just read

America and The Cult of The Cactus Boots - Phillip Freedenberg + Jeff Walton. Corona\Samizdat Press

Old Man and The Sea - Hemingway

J.G. Ballard - Concrete Island

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - General in His Labyrinth

Richard Price - The Wanderers

Music choices

Tycho

Propagandhi

Protest the Hero

Rise Against

Metallica

Justice for All

Arizona

Top 10

Fifth Business - Robertson Davies

The Magus - John Fowles

Middle C - William H Gass

Naked Singularity - Sergio De La Pava

Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

The Recognitions - William Gaddis

Against The Day - Thomas Pynchon

The Tunnel - William H Gass

Pale King - David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

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