Beyond The Zero

https://www.ottiliemulzet.net

By HERSCHT from

https://www.ndbooks.com/book/herscht-07769/

Gateway books / Authors

Alice Munro

Charlotte Bronte

Henry James

Emily Dickenson

Current Reads

The Cairo Trilogy - Naguib Mahfouz

Bílá Voda - Kateřina Tučková

Lee Klein's website

https://www.litfunforever.com

Buy the book here

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

Notes

Recently read 

Always Crashing in the Same Car: A Novel After David Bowie by Lance Olsen

36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le 

The Third Realm by Karl Ove Knausgaard 

Autoportrait by Eduoard Leve, Autoportrait by Jesse Ball, I Remember by Joe Brainard, Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti

The Material by Camille Bordas (Colorin’ Colorado story on New Yorker podcast)

Percival Everett bender (Telephone, Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Pointier, Dr. No).
 

Looking forward to 

Backwardness by Garielle Lutz (currently reading) – also The Complete Gary Lutz 

Jose Trigo by Fernando del Paso and Ute av Verden by Knausgaard

The Red Handler by Johan Harstad (Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven)

Horse Latitudes by Morris Collins

Anxious Pleasures: A Novel After Kafka by Lance Olson

White Mythology by W.D. Clarke 
Much Ado About Everything: Oration on the Dignity of the Novelist by Gary Amdahl
Annihilation by Houellebecq
Still need to get to The Fraud and the new Enard

Reread Dracula in October, finally read some Trollope

This is a repost of my chat with 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 Highsmithth Ross Benjamin

https://susanbernofsky.com/

Get the book from

 https://www.ndbooks.com/book/paul-celan-and-the-trans-tibetan-angel/ in the US

https://www.dialoguebooks.co.uk/titles/yoko-tawada/spontaneous-acts/9780349704234/ in the UK 

Gateway books / Authors 

Robert Walser 

Shirley Hazzard

Angela Carter 

Barbra Comyns

Nabokov 

Handke 

Kobo Abe 

Current reads/Looking forward to 

The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk

Scholastique Mukasonga - Sister Deborah 

Sayaka Murata - new novel 

Samanta Schweblin

Yoko Tawada - Suggested in the Stars 

Desert Island Books 

Uwe Johnson - Anniversaries

Yoko Tawada - The Naked Eye 

Rod Moody Corbett

https://rodmoodycorbett.com/fiction/

https://breakwaterbooks.com/products/hides

Current reads / recently enjoyed or looking forward to 

American Abductions -  Mauro Javier Cárdenas

Europeana - Patrik Ouředník

Joy Williams - Concerning The Future of Souls 

The Witches - Stacy Schiff

Greg Gerke - In The Suavity of the Rock 

Garielle Lutz - Backwardness. 

Desert Island Books 

Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson

The Hundred Brothers - Donald Antrim 

The Association of Small Bombs - Karan Mahajan

Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry 

The Samurai - Helen DeWitt

Mating - Norman Rush

Erasure - Percival Everett

The Wall - Marlen Haushofer

Suttree - Cormac McCarthy 

Guy Davenport - The Geography of the Imagination 

Brett Biebel

https://www.brettbiebel.com/books

Buy the book here 

https://ugapress.org/book/9780820365831/a-mason-and-dixon-companion/

Gateway books /Authors 

Narnia 

DFW 

Bolano 

Ducks, Newburyport

Current reads 

Vollmann - Europe Central 

Jenny Erpenbeck 

Nate Silver - On The Edge 

Desert Island Books 

Gravity’s Rainbow 

Mason and Dixon 

2666

Moby Dick

Old Pioneers - Willa Cather 

Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James 

Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellmann

Friday Night Lights 

A Naked Singularity - Sergio De La Pava 

Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Buy the book from:

https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/new-releases/your-absence-is-darkness/

Gateway books

Master and Margarita - Bulgakov 

Halldór Laxness

Gunnar Gunnarsson

Knut Hamsun

Tonio Kröger - Thomas Mann

Moby Dick

Current Reads 

Nomad Century - Gaia Vince 

Herta Muller 

Dante 

Desert Island Books 

Collected poetry 

Your Face Tomorrow 

https://www.terribleman.com

Buy The Son of Man from :

Australia:

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US

https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-son-of-man/

UK

https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/the-son-of-man/

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Get the book from

https://dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/headshot/

or

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723031/headshot-by-rita-bullwinkel/

Gateway books

All American - Diane Williams

The Way Through Doors - Jesse Ball

Current reads

Ten Planets -  Yuri Herrera

Kaveh Akbar

Yr Dead - Sam Sax

Desert Island Books

Collected Diane Williams

Thunder Perfect Mind

The Way Through Doors - Jesse Ball

Madness, Rack, and Honey - Mary Ruefle

https://annedemarcken.com

Get the book from

AUST

https://giramondopublishing.com/books/anne-de-marcken-it-lasts-forever-and-then-its-over/

UK

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US

https://www.ndbooks.com/book/it-lasts-forever-and-then-it-s-over/?source=search

Gateway books

Jane Eyre

Calvino - Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Current Reads

Code Noir - Canisia Lubrin

Salvage - Dionne Brand

Alphabetical Diaries - Sheila Heti

Anne Carson - Wrong Norma

Accidental Gods -  Anna Della Subin

Kick The Latch - Kathryn Scanlan

The Observable Universe - Heather McCalden

Mice 1961 -  Stacey Levine

Desert Island Books

Calvino - Six Memos for the Next Millennium and Difficult Loves

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Virginia Woolf - Letters