Season 1 Episode 7

Brian Boyd

Gateway book - Lolita

Currently Reading

Vanessa Springora - Consent

Kate Elizabeth Russel - My Dark Vanessa

Rutger Bregman - Humankind

David Sloan Wilson - Atlas Hugged

Jonathan Rauch - The Constitution of Knowledge

Frans De Waal - Mamma’s Last Hug

Looking forward to Orhan Pamuk - Nights of Plague

Top 10

1.) Pale Fire - Nabokov (closely followed by Ada, Speak Memory, Lolita)

2.) Ulysses -Joyce

3.) Shakespeare

4.) Homer - The Odyssey -

5.) Willa Cather - My Antonia

6.) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin -

7.) Anna Karenina - Tolstoy

8.) Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis - The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

9.) Maus - Art Speigelman

10.) Dickens

Links;

http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz

https://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/bboy001

https://thenabokovian.org

Season 1 Episode 6

Alina Stefanescu

www.alinastefanescuwriter.com

Her new book Dor is available now

Gateway book

Emil Cioran - On The Heights of Despair

Currently Reading

Kate Zambreno - To Write As If Already Dead

Antoine Volodine - Minor Angels

Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism and K-Pop

Top 10

Annie Ernaux - The Years

Mihail Sebastian - For Two Thousand years

Jenny Erpenbeck - The End of Days

Norman Manea - The Black Envelope

Dumitru Țepeneag - Vein Art of the Fugue

Daniil Kharms - Today I Wrote Nothing

Gregor von Rezzori - An Ermine in Czernopol

Varlam Shalamov - Kolyma Tales

Svetlana Boym - Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea

Robert Musil - Diaries

Beyond The Zero

Season 1 Episode 5

With Matt Bucher

Show Notes

https://www.mattbucher.com

@mattbucher

Tumblr [email protected]

bolanobolano.org coming soon

Concavity Show

Email - [email protected]

https://greatconcavity.podbean.com

Matt’s gateway book;

U and I - Nicholson Baker

Matt’s to be read and current reads

Paradise Nevada - Dario Diofebi

A Most Fun Thing - Kyle Beachy

A Shock - Keith Ridgeway

Ava - Carole Maso

House of All Nations - Christina Stead

Matt’s top 10

10.) Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky

9.) Herman Melville - Moby Dick

8.) John Updike - Rabbit is Rich

7.) Primo Levi - Survival in Auschwitz

6.) Sarah Gerard - Binary Star

5.) Iris Murdoch - Severed Head

4.) David Markson - Vanishing Point

3.) Roberto Bolano - 2666

2.) Jim Gauer - Novel Explosives

1.) David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest

Honorable mentions

Anne Petry - The Street

Brenda Lezano - Loop

Robert Eisler - Man into Wolf

Podcast A Very Square Peg by Brian Collins

@averysquarepeg

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-very-square-peg-the-strange-and-remarkable/id1528774422

Malcolm Lowry - Under The Volcano

Gerald Murnane - A Life On The Clouds

Maggie Nelson - Bluets

Beyond The Zero

Season 1 Episode 4

brampresser.com

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.

Show Notes; 

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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@ddillingworth on twiter

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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 

Season 1 Episode 1 of Beyond The Zero. 

Show notes 

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

Show notes;

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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