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**Beyond The Zero**

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

Latest Episodes:

Bram Presser Aug 19, 2021

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Beyond The Zero

Season 1 Episode 4

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Gateway Book

I am The Cheese - Robert Cormier

Currently Reading

The Last Guest - J.P. Pomare

The Absolute Book - Elizabeth Knox

Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch - Rivka Galchen

The Promise - Damon Galgut

Grimmish - Michael Winkler

Klara And The Sun - Ishiguro

Smokehouse - Melissa Manning

Book of the year so far

The Employees - Olga Ravn

Top 10 (almost)

1.) I am The Cheese - Robert Cormier

2.) The Trial - Franz Kafka

3.) The Tenant - Roland Topor

4.) Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow

5.) Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal

6.) Trieste daša drndić

7.) This Blinding Absence of Light - Tahar Ben Jelloun

8.) Binu and the Great Wall - Su Tong

9.) The Ogre - Michel Tournier

10.) Censoring an Iranian Love Story - Shahriar Mandanipour

11.) The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman - Angela Hoffman

12.) The Infatuations Javier Marias

Honorable mentions

Andre Brink - A Dry White Season

I.J Singer - The Brothers Ashkenazi

Gerard Donovan - Schopenhauer’s Telescope

Jesse Ball - The Curfew, The census, Silence Once Begun.

Dustin Illingworth Aug 12, 2021

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Currently Reading

Flora Jaeggy - The Water Statues

Gerald Murnane - Stream System

Carole Maso - Ava

Hugh Kenner The Pound Era

Top 10

1. ) Malcolm Lowry - Under The Volcano

2.) Virginia Woolf - To The Light House

3.) James Joyce - Ulysses

4.) Roberto Bolano - 2666

5.) Herman Melville - Moby Dick

6.) László Krasznahorkai - Satantango

7.) Gerald Murnane - The Plains

8.) John Hawkes - The Lime Twig

9.) Nathaniel West - Miss Lonleyhearts

10.) Thomas Bernhard - Old Masters

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Sean McCallum Aug 05, 2021

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Sean's book, The Recalcitrant Stuff of Life, is out October 15 through Outcast Press https://www.outcast-press.com/published-works

Sean's TBR pile

Thommy Waite - Any Day You Can Die

I'll Pray When I'm Dying - Stephen J Golds

Absolom Absolom - Faulkner

Moby Dick - Melville

Stoner -John Williams

J.R. McConvey - Different Beasts

Sean's Top Ten

1.) East of Eden - Steinbeck

2.) The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway

3.) Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon

For Zak Smith's Illustrated GR see https://www.amazon.com/Pictures-Showing-Happens-Pynchons-Gravitys/dp/0977312798/ref=pd_sbs_1/130-7364922-7286407?pd_rd_w=djXZG&pf_rd_p=3676f086-9496-4fd7-8490-77cf7f43f846&pf_rd_r=89QM2CT5B8DHG8KZDJKE&pd_rd_r=d0c8640d-ca5b-478e-bb25-6b114c514453&pd_rd_wg=k3BaU&pd_rd_i=0977312798&psc=1)

4.) Bright Lights Big City - Jay McInerney

5.) The Body Stephen King

6.) Sound And The Fury Faulkner

7.) The Tender Bar - J.R Moehringer

8.) The Tropic of Hockey Dave Bidini

9.) Julian Barnes - History of the World in 10 and 1/2 Chapters

10.) High Fidelity - Nick Hornby

Beyond The Zero with Thommy Waite Jul 29, 2021

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Season 1 Episode 1 of Beyond The Zero.

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Thommy Waite is the author of Any Day You Can Die and is the host of Thommy Waite's Square Record.

His website is www.thommywaite.com

Twitter @thommywaite

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Thommy's TBR pile

Freedom - Jonathan Franzen

Bonfire of the Vanities - Thomas Wolf

Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck

Stoner - John Williams

Hope - Glen Duncan

Vernon God Little - DPC Pierre (See Lights Out in Wonderland)

Thommy's Top 10

1.) Filth - Irvine Welsh

2.) Big Sur -Jack Kerouac

3.) The Marriage Plot - Jeffery Eugenides

4.) The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/nov/07/the-dice-man-elusive-author-luke-rhinehart-george-cockroft-emmanuel-carrere

5.) The Secret History - Donna Tart

6.) American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

7.) Rules of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis

8.) Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

9.) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

10.) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thomson

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