Beyond The Zero

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August 04, 2022 Matthew Spencer
Matthew Spencer
@unpaginated
https://paradisealmanc.substack.com
https://sublunaryeditions.com/empyrean
The Anecdotes of Heinrich von Kleist is available here
https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/anecdotes-heinrich-von-kleist
Gateway books:
Lord of the Rings -Tolkien
Kafka - A Country Doctor
Borges
Current reads
Miss Mackintosh My Darling
https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/miss-macintosh-my-darling
Anti-Oedipus
by Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze
Can XUE -Mystery Train
Top 10
Molloy - Samuel Becket
Ficciones - Borges
Nineteen ways of looking at Wang Wei - Eliot Weinberger
Old Rendering Plant - Wolfgang Hilbig
Energy of delusion/Bowstring- Viktor Shklovsky
Kafka - Complete stories
2666 - Bolano
Book of disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
Woyzeck - Georg Büchner
Vertical Motion - Can XUE
...more
1h 8min
July 28, 2022 David Leo Rice
David Leo Rice
https://www.raviddice.com
@raviddice
@WakeIslandPod
https://anchor.fm/wake-island
Gateway books
Infinite Jest - DWF
The Illuminatus! Trilogy- Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami
100 years of Solitude - Marquez
Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
Magic Mountain - Mann
Sabbath’s Theatre / American Pastoral - Roth
Harold Pinter
The Open Curtain - Brian Evenson
Recent reads
Childhood of Jesus - J.M. Coetzee
Last Letter to A Reader - Gerald Murnane
Demons - Dostoyevsky
The Tenant - Roland Topor
Glassy Burning Floor of Hell - Evenson
Augustus - John Williams
Looking forward to
Lapnova - Moshfegh
Sleepwalk - Dan Chaon
A Perfect Spy - John le Carré
Trust - Hernan Diaz
Top 10
Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schulz
The Famished Road - Ben Okri
Absolom, Absolom - Faulkner
From Hell - Alan Moore
The Plains - Murnane
The Fifth Child - Lessing
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace From the Sea - Mishima
Sea Under Love - David Grossman
Stories - Stephen Millhauser
Jakob Von Guten - Walser
...more
1h 24min
July 21, 2022 Brian Evenson
https://www.brianevenson.com
Gateway books / Authors
Edgar Alan Poe
Kafka - short stories
Gene Wolfe - Book of the New Sun
Complete Stories J.G. Ballard
Raymond Carver
Current reads/Looking forward to
Andy Davidson - The Hollow Kind
Attila Veres - The Black Maybe (forthcoming from Valancourt Books)
https://www.valancourtbooks.com/the-black-maybe.html
Dashiel Carrera - The Deer (forthcoming Dalkey Archive)
http://www.dashielcarrera.com/portfolio-pages/deer.html
Stanislaw Lem - The Truth and other Stories
Tender is the Flesh Agustina Bazterrica
In the Realm of The Dead - Uchida Hyakken
Top 10
Edgar Alan Poe - Stories
Kafka - Stories
The Plains - Gerald Murnane
Kathryn Davis - Duplex
Robert Aickman - Cold Hand in Mind
John Keene - Counter Narratives
Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Paul Bowles - Pages from Cold Point
Cormac McCarthy - Outer Dark
Dambudzo Marachera- The House of Hunger

...more
48min
July 14, 2022 Dominique Christina
https://www.dominiquechristina.com
@nyarloka Twitter
@dominiquechristina Instagram
Gateway books
The Raven - Edgar Alan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Sylvia Plath
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Li-young Lee
Saul Williams
Edwidge Danticat
Current reads
The Corner - David Simon
Top 10
100 Yeas of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Beloved Toni Morrison
Mama Day - Gloria Naylor
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf - Ntozake Shange
Their Eyes are Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Dry White Season - Andre Brink
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah - Richard Bach
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction - David Sheff
Kindred - Octavia Butler
...more
48min
July 11, 2022 Carmel Bird
Carmel Bird
http://www.carmelbird.com
Events for the launch of Telltale;
https://transitlounge.com.au/events/132/launch-of-telltale-by-carmel-bird/
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/carmel-bird-telltale-tickets-336956906177
Buy it here or through your local independent book shop;
https://transitlounge.com.au/shop/telltale-reading-writing-remembering/
Currently reading
With Love from Wish & Co. Minnie Darke
Top 10
The Aunts Story - Patrick White
Carpentaria - Alexis Wright
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain - George Saunders
The Journalist and the Murderer - Janet Malcolm
Lolita - Nabokov
Colour - Victoria Finlay
Coonardoo - Katharine Susannah Prichard
The Man in the Red Coat - Julian Barnes
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
Nobody’s Perfect - Anthony Lane
...more
34min
July 07, 2022 Zachary Tanner

Zachary Tanner
@piobald_puffpuff instagram
Coronasamizdat.com
https://zacharytannerbibliophile.art.blog
Fifi Mimieux
https://www.amazon.com/Fifi-Mimieux/e/B00O0GNTCG/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1
Gateway Books
Review of Contemporary Fiction
Against The Day
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest
Vollmann
Proust
Current reads /Looking forward to
Mansfield Park - Austen
Outlander series
Bottom's Dream
Carte Blanche
Vollmann
Pynchon
Miranda July
Top 10
Moby Dick
Proust - À la recherche du temps perdu
Jane Austen - Persuasion
Laura Warholic - Alexander Theroux (see Steven Moore's essay in A Fan's Notes)
V- Thomas Pynchon
Sot-Weed Factor - John Barth
Miss Mackintosh My Darling - Marguerite Young
J.R. - William Gaddis
Babel-17 Samuel Delany
Sanislaw Lem - Solaris

...more
1h 4min
June 30, 2022 Sebastian Vice
https://www.outcast-press.com
@sebastian_vice

Gateway books
Moby Dick
Goosebumps R.L. Stein
Kafka
Dostoyevsky
Minority Report - PKD
Chuck Palahniuk
J.G. Ballard - Crash
Current read
Thomas Ligotti
Ernest Becker - Denial of Death
Top 10
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Craig Clevernger - The Contortionist's Handbook
Agustina Bazterrica - Tender is the Flesh
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
Amy Hempel - Short stories (The Harvest)
Kafka - Short Stories (In the Penal Colony, The Hunger Artist)
Worm at the Core - Sheldon Solomon
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
Survivor Type - Stephen King
PKD - Short Stories
H.P. Lovecraft
Thomas Ligotti - Conspiracy Against the Human Race

...more
1h
June 24, 2022 Mark A Henry
@markahenrybooks
Buy Lacking Evidence to the Contrary from Amazon or your local independent bookstore.
https://www.riverbendbookshop.com
@RBBookshop
Curiosity and Co Jamestown Rhode Island
If you are in Jamestown here is your first clue;
The Treasure has passed through lands both free and afflicted through hands both worthy and not and it came to rest on Jamestown's shores entrusted to the care of Governor Carr's eternal watch.
For those of you who like spoilers I have added the video of Mark's treasure hunt at the bottom of the show notes.
GATEWAY BOOKS
Soup Series – Robert Newton Peck
Alvin Fernald Series– Clifford B. Hicks
Mad Scientists Club Series – Bertrand Brindley
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe C
ARTE BLANCHE AUTHORS
David Shafer
Jennifer Egan
Colson Whitehead
Bill Bryson
RECENT READS/TBR
Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr
The Candy House – Jennifer Egan
The Recalcitrant Stuff of Life – Sean McCallum
Any Day You Can Die – Tommy Waite
The Signal Line – Brendan Colley
Waypoints – Adam Ouston
US Army Survival Manual
TOP TEN The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
God Bless you Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
Jerusalem Quartet - Edward Whittemore
Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid – Bill Bryson
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer
Exit West - Moshin Hamid
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
Apartment - Teddy Wayne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8zGkR4GhrA
...more
1h 8min
June 21, 2022 Bonus Rick Harsch
https://coronasamizdat.com
Instagram @rick.harsch
@corona_samizdat
Gmail - [email protected]
Buy The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas here : https://zerogrampress.com/2022/01/26/the-manifold-destiny-of-eddie-vegas/
...more
33min
June 16, 2022 Daniel James
Daniel James
https://danieljameswriter.com
@danjameswriter
Substack
https://theliteratureofpsychosis.substack.com/
Buy The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas special edition now from Valley Press.
After you've read the book, find out more about Ezra Maas by visiting the following online resources. Just watch out you don't fall down a digital rabbit hole:
Ezra Maas Wikipedia page.
http://ezramaas-wiki.org
Maas Foundation website.
https://www.ezramaas.com
Gateway books
Fighting Fantasy series novels - Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone
Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers / Better Than Life - Grant Naylor (Red Dwarf)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Dracula - Bram Stoker
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Dubliners - James Joyce
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
Recent reads /Looking forward to
Montano’s Malady - Enrique Vila-Matas
Case Study - Graeme Macrae Burnet
The Hour of The Star - Clarice Lispector
Life on Other Planets - Matt Cook
Libra - Don DeLillo
Aftermath - Preti Taneja
The Third Hotel - Laura Van Den Berg
Top 10
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler / The Galton Case by Ross MacDonald
Collected Stories - Philip K Dick
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Eye of The Beholder - Marc Behm
Falling Angel - William Hjortsberg
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
Lanark - Alasdair Gray
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Collected Stories - Borges
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Also mentioned during the interview
The work of Mark Fisher particularly Ghosts of My LIfe and The Weird and the Eerie
The fiction of Marc Nash
Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism
...more
2h 6min

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