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Beyond The Zero

Dick's Pizza Media

Weekly long-form discussions about books with authors, translators and critics from around the world.
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Beyond The Zero - Wolves of Eternity - Daniel Fraser
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12/08/23 • 43 min

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Beyond The Zero - Andrew Roff

Andrew Roff

Beyond The Zero

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03/23/22 • 64 min

Andrew Roff

@roffwrites

https://roffwrites.com

Buy Teeth of a Slow Machine here:

https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-teeth-of-a-slow-machine-andrew-roff/book/9781743058916.html?source=pla&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5tvJhaji9QIViphmAh2O7gpCEAYYASABEgKT6vD_BwE

Published by @WakefieldPress

What I'm reading: Ben Walter - What Fear Was

Fiona Robertson - If You're Happy

Olga Ravn - The Employees

What I'm looking forward to:

ane Rawson - A History of Dreams

Anne Casey Hardy - Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls

Al Campbell - The Keepers Adam Ouston - Waypoints

Gateway Books Isaac Asimov - I, Robot

James Clavell - Shogun Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Roald Dahl - Collected Stories

Top 10

Elizabeth Tan - Rubik

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five

Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policeman's Union

Ryan O'Neill - The Weight of a Human Heart

Josephine Rowe - Here Until August

Wayne Marshall - Shirl

Ursula LeGuin - The Left Hand of Darkness

Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go

Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert Kurvitz - Disco Elysium (this is a computer game, but it's really interactive literary fiction)

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Beyond The Zero - Peter Orner - STILL NO WORD FROM YOU
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11/24/22 • 39 min

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

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Beyond The Zero - Thomas Moore - FOREVER/ALONE
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01/06/23 • 47 min

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

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Beyond The Zero - End of Year Special Part 1
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04/20/25 • 115 min

Full show notes available here

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

Travis Meyer

Best of the Year

  • Satantango Laszlo K
  • Manifold Destiny - Rick from Only Fans
  • Darconville’s Cat - no comment :)
  • Jerusalem - Alan Moore
  • Under the Volcano
  • Unidentified man at left of photo - Jeff Bursey
  • Richard Braugitan - The Abortion
  • The Luminous Novel - Levrero
  • Lost Empress - Sergio De La Pava

Next year

  • Franzen - Crossroads
  • Louis Armand - The Combinations
  • The Pale King
  • 7 Dreams
  • Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Solenoid
  • Theroux
  • Alan More
  • Adam Levin - Mt Chicago

Ben Diamond - London

Best of the Year

  • Companion Piece - Ali Smith

Courtneay S Gray

Best of the Year

  • Hating Olivia - Mark SaFranko
  • The Dry Heart Natalia Ginzburg
  • Bright Lights Big City -JAY McInnerny
  • RoadSide Picnic - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Jen Craig

Best of the Year

  • Wall - coming out through Zerogram and Puncher and Wattman
  • Emily Hall - The Longcut
  • Mauro Javier Cardenes - Aphasia
  • Gabriel Blackwell - Doomtown
  • Geoffrey De Morriosn - Falling Hour
  • Bon and Lesley - Shaun Prescott
  • Is Mother Dead - Vigdis Hjorth
  • Malina - Inneborg Bachmann
  • Laslo K - War and War

Daniel Davis Wood

Splice Submissions are open!

Best of the Year

  • Grimmish - mention nick from eleventh volume’s review
  • The Longcut - Emily Hall
  • Paul Stanbridge - My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is (want to read this and have Forbidden Line on my desk)
  • Warlock - Oakley Hall
  • Brian Dillon - Affinities
  • JM Coetzee - New novel 2023 The Pole
  • Wall - Jen Craig 2023 - repeated recommendation
  • Jon Fosse - Melancholy 1 and 2 from Fitzcaraaldo
  • Lanark - New edition of Poor Things (Dalkey) - ALAISTAIR GRAY

Sara Lippman - Lech

Best of the Year

  • Human Blues - Elisa Albert
  • Peter Orner - Still No Word From You
  • Dinosaurs Lydia Millet
  • Samantha Hunt - The Unwritten Book /The Seas
  • Steve Almond - All The Secrets of The World
  • Master and Margarita
  • Is This All there is - Marcel Heath
  • Shape Shifting - Michelle Ross
  • How We Disappear - Tara Lynn Masih
  • Strangers to Ourselves - Rachel Aviv
  • Morgan Talty - Night of the Living Rez

Looking forward to

  • Before All the World - Moriel Rothman-Zecher
  • The Enhancers - Anne K Yoder
  • The Consolation - Deborah Shapiro
  • Seth Rogoff - The Kirschenbaum Lectures
  • Sidle Creek Jolene McIlwain
  • The Snow Leopard - Peter Mathiesen
  • The Severed Head - Iris Murcdoch
  • Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus

Mark A Henry

Best of the Year

  • Meiselman by Avner Landes

New book by Him

The Honolulu Situation 2023

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Beyond The Zero - End of Year Special part 2
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12/22/22 • 101 min

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

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Beyond The Zero - Louis Armand

Louis Armand

Beyond The Zero

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03/17/22 • 57 min

Louis Armand

https://atelierlouisarmand.wordpress.com

Gateways and influences.

International poetry collections including Kenneth Slessor (title unknown)

Authors

LUKÁŠ TOMIN

https://www.twistedspoon.com/tomin.html

Currently reading/recently enjoyed

The Dawn of Everything

Book by David Graeber and David Wengrow

The Logos - Mark De Silva

Top Shelf

Richard Makin - Dwelling

https://equuspress.wordpress.com/richard-makin/

Publishers to check out

http://www.insidethecastle.org

https://amphetaminesulphate.bigcartel.com

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Beyond The Zero - Isabella Streffen - FABULAE
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11/01/22 • 68 min

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

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Beyond The Zero - Kurt Baumeister - TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
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06/12/25 • 62 min

Buy Twilight of the Gods here :

https://www.stalkinghorsepress.com/product/twilight-of-the-gods-pb/

https://kurtbaumeister.com/

Gateway books/authors

Dr Suess

Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew

Sherlock Holmes

Tom Swift

Issac Asimov

Michael Moorcock

Martin Amis

Nabokov

Kundera

Julian Barnes

Calvino

Shakespeare

Current reads

Gemini Wahhaj - Katy Family

Duncan Barlow - A Dog Between Us

Tony Trigilio - The Punishment Book

A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel - Cynthia Weiner

Shakespeare

London Fields - Amis

Pale Fire - Nabokov

The Passion - Jeanette Winterson -

The Handmaid’s Tale - Atwood

Hemingway - Short Stories

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How many episodes does Beyond The Zero have?

Beyond The Zero currently has 266 episodes available.

What topics does Beyond The Zero cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts, Books and Arts.

What is the most popular episode on Beyond The Zero?

The episode title 'Wolves of Eternity - Daniel Fraser' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Beyond The Zero?

The average episode length on Beyond The Zero is 65 minutes.

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Episodes of Beyond The Zero are typically released every 6 days, 2 hours.

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The first episode of Beyond The Zero was released on Jul 27, 2021.

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