Beyond The Zero
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Beau L'Amour - LOST TREASURES - LOUIS L'AMOUR
http://www.louislamourslosttreasures.com/
Gateway Books / Authors
Doc Savage series
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Dashiell Hammett
Ross Macdonald
Raymond Chandler
Current Reads /Looking forward to
Allan Furst novels
Desert Island Books /Authors
H. Rider Haggard
Wilbur Smith - Eye of The Tiger
John DeChancie
Andre Norton
Kevin Wilson - RUN FOR THE HILLS
https://www.wilsonkevin.com/
@kevinwilsonauthor
Gateway books
The Secret Three - Mildred Myrick
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Yearling
A Hero Ain’t Nothing but A Sandwich - Alice Childress
Current reads
Audition - Katie Kitamura
Dying, In Other Words - Maggie Gee
Emma Straub - New book 2026
Desert Island Books
True Grit - Charles Portis
Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
Anne Patchett - The Magician’s Assistant
We Have Always Lived in The Castle - Shirley Jackson
Carson McCullers - The Member of The Wedding
Randall Keenan - A Visitation of Spirits
Michel Nieva - DENGUE BOY
Michel Nieva
@MichelNieva
Buy Dengue Boy here:
https://serpentstail.com/work/dengue-boy/
https://astrapublishinghouse.com/product/dengue-boy-9781662602658/
Gateway books
Late In August - Faulkner
Borges
Philip K Dick
Current reads
Samanta Schweblin - short story collection Good and Evil
Late Fascism - Alberto Toscano
Desert Island books
Borges - collected fiction
Andrew Porter - THE IMAGINED LIFE
https://www.andrewporterwriter.com
Gateway books /Authors
Raymond Carver
John Cheever
Denis Johnson
Elena Ferrante
Marilynne Robinson
Rachel Cusk
Knausgaard
Current Reads /Looking forward to
Lori Ostlund - Are You Happy
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum - Elita
Paul Lisicky
Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping
Collected Stories - Cheever
The Coast of Chicago - Stuart Dybek
Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son
Joan Didion - Slouching Toward Bethlehem
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffery Eugenides
Jonathan Meades - EMPTY WIGS
Buy Empty Wigs here :
https://unbound.com/products/empty-wigs
https://www.jonathanmeades.co.uk
ATTILA(s) with Katie Wittemore
Buy the two Attila books from Open Letter:
https://www.openletterbooks.org/collections/new-forthcoming/products/attila-coll
https://www.openletterbooks.org/collections/new-forthcoming/products/attila
SCHATTENFROH - With Michael Lentz and Max Lawton
Go and pre-order SCHATTENFROH from Deep Vellum
https://store.deepvellum.org/products/schattenfroh
Domenic Amerena - I WANT EVERYTHING
Buy the book from :
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Gateway books
Monkey’s Mask - Dorothy Hewitt
Disgrace - Coetzee
Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing/ The Golden Notebook
Kafka - Short Stories
Current reads
Princess of 72nd Street - Elaine Kraf
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Things - Perec
Desert Island books
The Golden Notebook - Lessing
Coetzee
The Notebook Trilogy - Ágota Kristóf
Ewan Morrison - FOR EMMA
Get For Emma here :
https://leamingtonbooks.com/for-emma
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https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/arcade-publishing/9781648211423/for-emma/
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Gateway books /authors
Orwell
Milan Kundera
Michel Houellebecq
Richard Yates
Lorrei Moore
Dostoyevsky
Current reads
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race - Thomas Ligotti
Ray Kurzweil - The Singularity is Near /Nearer
Desert Island books
Note Form The Underground
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race - Thomas Ligotti
Mark Polizzotti - COMMAND PERFORMANCE BY JEAN ECHENOZ
Mark Polizzotti
Buy Command Performance from NYRB
https://www.nyrb.com/products/command-performance
Pre-order Nadja here;
https://www.nyrb.com/products/nadja
Gateway books
Le Schizo et les langues - Louis Wolfson
A Void - Perec
Cathay - Ezra Pound
The Philosophy of Translation - Damion Searls
Edwin Frank - Stranger Than Fiction
Desert Island Books
Marguerite Duras - Writing and The Sailor From Gibraltar
The Banquet Years - Roger Shattuck
John Ashbery - Poems
Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
Bristol Vaudrin - AFTERWARD
https://www.bristolvaudrin.com/
Buy Afterward here:
https://tortoisebooks.com/store/afterward
Gateway books
Pride and Prejudice
Anna Karenina
The Western Cannon
Current reads
Gravity’s Rainbow
Looking forward to
The Delegation Avner Landes
New Christian TeBordo
Desert Island books
We The Drowned - Carsten Jensen
The Iliad
Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
Too Far Afield - Günter Grass
Independant People - Halldór Laxness
Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
Mount Chicago - Adam Levin
Ryan O'Connor THE VOIDS
Ryan O’Connor
@WordsOConnor
Order The Voids from :
https://scribepublications.co.uk/books-authors/books/the-voids-9781913348441
Gateway books
W.B. Yates - A Vision
Robert Service - The Call of The Yukon
Current reads / Recently enjoyed
Pougemahone - Patrick McCabe
Fernada Melchor - Paradais
Grimmish - Michael Winkler
Top 10
Journey To The End of The Night - Celine
Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
The Trial - Kafka
The Legend of The Holy Drinker - Joseph Roth
Heart of Darkness - Conrad
The Dream Songs - John Berryman
On The Road - Kerouac
Leaves of Grass- Walt Whitman
End of Year Special Part 3
Due to Character limits Show full notes are here :
https://beyondthezeropodcast.substack.com/p/show-notes-end-of-year-special
End of year Special part 3
Ryan O’Connor - Author of the Voids
Picks of 2022
- Collected Fiction - Murnane
- Collected Fiction - Bruno Shultz
- Wendy Erskine - Dance Move
- Reality Hunger - David Sheilds
- Henry Miller - Wisdom of the Heart
- Russel Hoban - Ridley Walker
- Oscar Wilde - De Profundis
- Clarise Lispector - Aqua Aviva
- Pynchon CL40
- Cendras - Confessions of Dan Yak
- Dermott Healy - Sudden Times
- The Goat Song
- The Orange Eats Creeps- Grace Krilanovich
- Ben Marcus - Age of Wire and String
- Mike McCormack- Solar Bones
- Fernada Melchor - Hurricane Season
- Pougemahone - Patrick McCabe
- Grimmish - Michael Winkler
Planning to read in 2023
- Solenoid
- Dhalgren
- Waypoints
- David Keenan
- Ezra Maas
- Lazlo K
Thomas Moore
Picks of 2022
- Stricture - Isabelle Nicou
- Zealous immaculate - Audrey Szasz
- 100 Boyfriends - Brontez Purnell
In 2023 -
- Your Dreams - Thomas Moore
- New book by Audrey Szasz
- New Brett Easton Ellis
Emily Hall
2022 highlights
- Bolano by Night in Chile
- Anna Kavan - Ice
- Jen Craig - Wall
2023
- Anne Truett - Diaries
- Jack Lowery - It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful
- A Furious Oyster- Jessica Sequeira
- Women in the Dunes - Kōbō Abe
Rikki Ducornet
- Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness - Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Other Lands - Thomas Haliday
David Leo Rice
2022 highlights
- Solenoid - Book of the year
- Opperation Shylock - Roth
- Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
- Hurricane Season - Melchor
- 63: Dream Palace - James Purdy
- Motor Spirit - Jarett Kobeck
- The Gospel Singer - Harry Cruz
- A Scanner Darkly - PKD
- A Strangeness in My Mind - Orhan Palmuk
- The Black Maybe - Attilla Veres
2023
- Agota Kristóf - New translation
- Tono the Infallible - Evelio Rosero
- The Shards - BEE
- Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez
- Septology - Fosse
- A Different Darkness - Luigi Musolino
- The Autodidacts - Thomas Kendall
- The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy
- On the Marble Cliffs - Ernst Jünger
End of Year Special Part 1
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
Sean Cotter - SOLENOID
Sean Cotter
sean.cotter@utdallas.edu
Solenoid is available here:
https://store.deepvellum.org/products/solenoid
Gateway books
Gabriel Garcia Lorca - Poems
Fary Synder - Poems
Jack Spicer - After Lorca
Current reads / Listens
Don Quixote
Tristram Shandy
Spanky Wilson Album - I’m Thankful
Desert Island books
Poems of Arab Andalusia - Cola Franzen
Narrow Road to the Interior - Matsuo Bashō
Romancero gitano - Federico García Lorca
Lucian Blaga- Poems
Lydia Davis
Invisible Cities - Calvino
Vijay Khurana - THE PASSENGER SEAT
Buy The Passenger seat from :
UK
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US
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Gateway books
Kafka - Stories
Kleist - Stories
Tristram Shandy - Sterne
Piano Stories - Felisberto Hernández
Current reads / Looking forward to
Wall - Jen Craig
The Seers - Sulaiman Addonia
Murnane - Essays
Fail Worse - Habib William Kherbek
Standing Heavy - GauZ
Peter Flamm - Me?
Grimmish - Michael Winkler
Chinatown - Thun
Brian - Jeremy Cooper
Desert Island Books
Moby Dick
The Unfortunates - B.S. Johnson
Pale Fire
The Unconsoled - Ishiguro
Clarice Lispector - Stories
Diane Williams - Stories
Barthelme - Stories
Kafka - Stories
Chekov - Stories
T.J Clark - The Side of Death
Madeleine Watts - ELEGY SOUTHWEST
https://www.madeleinewatts.com/
Buy the book from
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UK
https://pushkinpress.com/book/elegy-southwest/
US
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Elegy-Southwest/Madeleine-Watts/9781668051627
Gateway Books
The Bell Jar - Plath
The Vivisector - Patrick White
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter - Simone de Beauvoir
Monkey Grip - Helen Garner
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
For Love Alone - Christina Stead
Alexandria Quartet - Durrell
Current reads/looking forward to
The City Changes it’s Face - Eimear McBride
Nevermore - Cécile Wajsbrot
Money To Burn - Asta Olivia Nordenhof
A Room Above a Shop - Anthony Shapland
Desert Island Books
The Lover - Marguerite Duras
The Tree of Man - Patrick White
Rings of Saturn - Sebald
Modern Nature - Derek Jarman
Kairos - Jenny Erpenbeck
Lauren Elkin - SCAFFOLDING
Lauren Elkin
Gateway books /authors
Georges Perec
Annie Ernaux
Marguerite Duras
Colette
Current Reads / looking forward to
Catherine Mansfield
Esther Kinsky
Desert Island Books
Break of Day - Colette
Annie Ernaux - Collected works
Mrs Dalloway - Woolf
Georges Perec - Species and Spaces
THE SUICIDES - Antonio Di Benedetto with Esther Allen.
Co-host - Seth from W.A.S.T.E Mailing list
https://estherallen.com
Buy The Suicides from :
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Avner Landes - THE DELEGATION With Sara Lippmann
Buy The Delegation here :
https://operationdodecahedron.com
Buy Smashing The Tablets here :
https://sunypress.edu/Books/S/Smashing-the-Tablets
https://www.saralippmann.com
NERVOSITIES - John Madera
https://anti-oedipuspress.com/books/nervosities/
https://johnmadera.com/book/
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young with David Hering
DEATH TAKES ME by Cristina Rivera Garza with Sarah Booker and Robin Myers
DEATH TAKES ME by Cristina Rivera Garza
https://www.robinepmyers.com
https://sarahkbooker.com
ALL OUR TOMORROWS - Amy DeBellis
Buy All Our Tomorrows here :
https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/amy-debellis-all-our-tomorrows-preorder
Gateway books
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
Sirens and Muses - Antonia Angress
Ripe - Sarah Rose Etter
Babel - R. F. Kuang
Donna Tart - Secret History
Current reads
Nothing Serious - Emily J Smith
The Imposter series - Scott Westerfeld
We Could Be Rats -Emily Austin
Sky Daddy - Kate Folk
Desert Island Books
Secret History - Donna Tart
All’s Well - Mona Award
A Simple Plan - Scott Smith
Dear Committee Members - Julie Schumacher
Cost - Roxana Robinson
THE THIRD TEMPLE by Yishai Sharid with Yardenne Greenspan
Yardenne Greenspan
@yardennegreenspan
Buy Yishai Sarid’s The Third Temple here
https://restlessbooks.org/bookstore/the-third-temple
Gateway books
The Great Gatsby
A Few Seconds of Radiant Film Script - Kevin Brockmeier
Second Person Singular - Sayed Kashua
Current reads
The Panelist - Yishai Sarid
Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
Ghosts of a Holy War - Yardena Schwartz
The Snarling Girl - Elisa Albert
The Anatomy of Exile: A Novel - Zeeva Bukai
Desert Island books
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
People Love Dead Jews - Dara Horn
It - Stephen King
Henderson The Rain King - Saul Bellow
As A Palm Tree In The Desert and Chestnuts of Yesteryear - Zvi Ankori
One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset / A Detective's Complaint /Take Up and Read - Shimon Adaf
Vincenzo Latronico - PERFECTION
Vincenzo Latronico - PERFECTION
@vlatronico
Get the Book from here
Aust
http://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/perfection
UK
https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/authors/vincenzo-latronico/
US
https://www.nyrb.com/products/perfection
Gateway books
Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Current reads
Rejection Tony Tulathimutte
Elsa Morante
Splinters - Leslie Jamison
Desert Island books
Balzac The Human Comedy
The Count of Monte Cristo
Borges - short stories
Anna Maria Ortese - Il cardillo addolorato
Sonya Walger - LION
Sonya Walger
https://sonya-walger.com
Buy Lion from the wonderful NYRB:
https://www.nyrb.com/collections/sonya-walger
@sonyawalgerofficial
Gateway books
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Middlemarch - Elliot
To The LightHouse - Woolf
Current reads
Lore Segal- Her First American
The Last Samurai - DeWitt
Jenny Erpenbeck - Go Went Gone
Natalia Ginzburg - The Little Virtues
Desert Island Books
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Light Years - James - Salter
Mary Oliver - Dreamwork
The Writer’s Life - Annie Dillard
Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse/Mrs Dalloway
Stacey Levine - MICE 1961
Stacey Levine
Get Mice 1961 here :
https://www.versechorus.com/mice1961
Gateway books/ Authors
Clarice Lispector
Marie Redonnet
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead - Barbara Comyns
Current reads
Orbital - Samantha Harvey
Joe Orton - Plays
Damascus House - Corrina Wycoff
Desert Island books
Marguerite Duras
Barbara Comyns
Joseph O'Neill - GODWIN
Joseph O'Neill
@JosephONeillx
Get Godwin from
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741344/godwin-by-joseph-oneill/
Gateway books
Sylvia Plath - Poetry
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
Seamus Heaney
Current reads
Karen Russel - The Antidote
Looking forward to rereading Nabokov and Pynchon
Desert Island Books
Complete Shakespeare
Joyce - Dubliners
Invisible Man - Ellis
Pnin - Nabokov
Collected poems - Wallace Stevens
Frank Kermode - Collected writing
Beckett - Nohow On
Muriel Spark
Borges - Ficciones
Madame Bovary
Levinas - Totality and Infinity
DARKENBLOOM by Eva Menasse with Charlotte Collins
Charlotte Collins
@cctranslates
Get Darkenbloom here
https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/darkenbloom-9781922585486
Gateway books
The Owl Service - Alan Garner
The Box of Delights - John Masefield
Narnia books
Marianne Dreams - Catherine Storr
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle
A Traveler in Time - Alison Uttley
Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
Current reads /recently enjoyed/Desert Island Books
Partiot - Alexei Navalny
Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder - Asako Yuzuki
Clearings - Iris Wolff (early 2026)
Desert Island Books
Complete Shakespeare
Four Quartets - T.S. Elliot
Dante
Lance Olsen - ABSOLUTE AWAY
Lance Olsen
Gateway Books
Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
Pricksongs & Descants - Coover
Lost In The Funhouse - Barth
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Current Reads and Looking forward to
CRAIG BERNARDINI - TWELVE OXEN UNDER THE SEA
Sound Museum - Poupeh Missaghi
Colin Hamilton - The Discarded
Desert Island books /authors
Sound And The Fury - Faulkner
Ulysses - Joyce
Mrs Dalloway - Woolf
Lolita - Nabokov
Borges
Sebald
Murakami
Calvino
White Noise - DeLillo
Paul Auster
Percival Everett - James
Barthelme - Snow White
Crash - J.G. Ballard
Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
The White Hotel - D. M. Thomas
Murnane
Adam Ross - PLAYWORLD
@adamrosswriter
Get the book from :
https://bookshop.org/p/books/playworld-adam-ross/21357966?ean=9780385351294&next=t&next=t
Gateway books
Farley Mowat - Never Cry Wolf/A Whale for the Killing
Dune
Ursula K. Le Guin
Current reads
Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change - Ben Austen
The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex - Melissa Febos
The Known World - Edward P. Jones
Desert Island Books
Fatal Shore - Robert Hughes
Alice Munro - Stories
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera
Benjamin Resnick - NEXT STOP
https://www.benjamin-resnick.com
Gateway books / Authors
Kazuo Ishiguro
Marlon James
Satan in Goray - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
Mrs. Lilienblum's Cloud Factory - Iddo Gefen
A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean
Maus - Art Spiegelman
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Hemingway
The Assistant- Bernard Malamud
Ted Chiang - Stories
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
Tevye the Dairyman - Sholem Aleichem
Andrew Lipstein - SOMETHING ROTTEN
Get the book from :
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374613358/somethingrotten/
Gateway books
Chuck Palahniuk
Murakami
Current reads /Recently enjoyed
Symptomatic - Danzy Senna
Entitlement: A Novel - Rumaan Alam
Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker
All Fours - Miranda July
The Shards - BEE
The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder
Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty
Columbine - Dave Cullen
Reading Genesis - Marilynne Robinson
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
- Richard Lloyd Parry
David Sally - Flesh
Katie Kitamura - Audition
The Dry Season - Melissa Febos
Sister Europe - Nell Zink
Universality - Natasha Brown
Desert Island books
The Bible
Chess books
Infinite Jest
D. Frederick Thomas - EXHIBITION TEXT
https://dfrederickthomas.wordpress.com
Get the book here:
https://vagabondpress.net/collections/fiction/products/d-frederick-thomas-exhibition-text
Gateway books
Letters From a Nut - Barry Marder
Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
Shades Children - Garth Nix
Kurt Cobain - Journals
Richard Brautigan
The Paris Review Interviews
The Motion of Light and Water - Samuel R Delany
Mysteries of Pittsburgh - Michael Chabon
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin Lawrence Weschler
Desert Island Books
Tender Buttons - Gertrude Stein
Hogg - Samuel R Delany
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin Lawrence Weschler
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Emily Dickinson - Collected poems
Miles Beard - AMERICANITIS
https://www.milesbeard.com/americanitis
Get the book here :
https://renardpress.com/books/americanitis/
Gateway books / Authors
Paul Auster
Philip Roth
John Updike
Nabokov - Despair
Paul Theroux
Desert Island books
Anita Brookner - Look At Me
Nabokov - Despair
Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
Under The Volcano
Sam Mills - THE WATERMARK
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/782813/the-watermark-by-sam-mills/
https://sammillsauthor.com
Gateway books /Authors
Roald Dahl
Will Self
Les Liaisons dangereuses - Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos
Highlights of 2024
All My Precious Madness - Mark Bowles
Desert Island Book
Les Liaisons dangereuses - Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos
Mrs. Caliban - Rachel Ingalls
Yoga Vasistha
Collected Virginia Woolf
Roald Dahl
Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
Outline Trilogy - Rachel Cusk
Animalia - Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
Ulysses - Joyce
E. M. Forster - Howard's End
Alice in Wonderland
The Rest Is Silence by Augusto Monterroso with Aaron Kerner
Aaron Kerner
@Memoiressecrets
Get The Rest Is Silence from
https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-rest-is-silence
Gateway Books/ Authors
Jacques Roubaud
Molloy - Beckett
W.G. Sebald
Calvino
Highlights of 2024
Meditations - Keston Sutherland
J. H. Prynne
Chevengur - Andrei Platonov
Jose Donoso - Obscene Bird of Night
THINKING-ABOUT-GLADYS MACHINE - Mario Levrero
2025
Aesthetics of Resistance - Peter Weiss
The Suicides - Antonio de Benedetto
Leonora Carrington - Plays / The Stone Door
T.J. Clark - Those Passions
Borges - Adolfo Bioy Casares
Desert Island Books
T.J. Clark - Farewell to an Idea
Molloy - Beckett
Philosophical observations - Wittgenstein
Henry James - Autobiography
Lydia Davis - The End of the Story
Lisa Robertson - The Weather
John Ashbury - Three Poems
Chris Ware
Chris Ware
Buy The Acme Novelty Daybook 3 here:
https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/acme-novelty-datebook-volume-1-3-slipcase-edition/
Gateway Books/Artists
Art Spiegelman - Maus
Robert Crumb
Desert Island Books
Madame Bovary
Anna Karenina
Ulysses
Moby Dick
Lolita
Regret - Guy de Maupassant
Best of 2024
Final Cut - Charles Burns
Sunday - Olivier Schrauwen
Petar & Liza - MIROSLAV SEKULIC-STRUJA, TRANSLATOR: JENNA ALLEN
I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together - Maurice Vellekoop
Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund - Caitlin McGurk
Blurry - Dash Shaw
Looking forward to in 2025
Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life - Dan Nadel
Joe Sacco - War on Gaza
Anders Nelson - Tongues
Barnaby - Crockett Johnson
Jaime Hernandez - Life Drawing
Bonus episode with Rochelle Siemienowicz and Anne De Marken
Bonus episode with
Rochelle Siemienowicz
https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/08/rochelle-siemienowicz/
and https://annedemarcken.com
End of Year Show Part 7
Bram Presser
Best of 2024
Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright
Elaine Kraf - The Princess of 72nd Street
Hospital - Sanya Rushdi
Woman at Point Zero - Nawal El Saadawi
Rita Bullwinkel - Headshot
Children of Paradise - Camilla Grudova
Ghost Mountain - Rónán Hession
The Singularity - Balsam Karam
Woodworm - Layla Martinez
Boy with a Black Rooster - Stefanie Vor Schulte
On The Calculation of Volume - Solvej Balle
The Holy and The Broken - Ittay Flescher
Looking forward to
Children of the Dead - Elfriede Jelinek
The Book Censor’s Library - ‘Bothayna Al-Essa, Ranya Abdelrahman
David Leo Rice
Best of 2024
Mevlido’s Dreams - Antoine Volodine
The inquisitors' Manual - António Lobo Antunes
Annihilation - Houellebecq
Layman’s Report - Eugene Martin
Wolves of Eternity - Knausgaard
The Guest - Emily Cline
Mysticism - Simon Critchley
Trickster Makes The World - Lewis Hyde
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers - Larry McMurtry
Herscht 07769 LK
Rejection: Fiction - Tulathimutte
2025
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll - Álvaro Mutis
Black Brane - Michael Cisco
New Morning Star series book
Context Collapse - Ryan Ruby
Incurable Graphomania - Anna Krivolapova
Major Arcana - John Pistelli
Schattenfroh
Kafka Diaries
Novel Explosives - Jim Gaur
More António Lobo Antunes
Into the Universe of Technical Images - Vilém Flusser
Enrique Vila Matas
Cesar Aria - Fulgentius
Gene Wolfe
Strange Beasts of China - Yan Ge
Emmett Stinson
Alexis Wright - Praiseworthy
Hospital - Sanya Rushdi
Nicholas John Turner - Let The Boys Play
Greg Gerke - In The Suavity of The Rock
Save Yourself If You Can Six Plays - Thomas Bernhard
Rebecca West - The Fountain Overflows
2025
New Sergio De La Pava - Every Arc Bends It’s Radian
Roberto Bolaño - Collected Stories
Blue Lard - Sorokin
The Strudlhof Steps: The Depth of the Years - Heimito von Doderer
Greg Gerke
Highlights of 2024
Garille Lutz - Backwardness
Schism Blue - Christina Tudor-Sideri
Rod Moody Corbett - Hides
https://socratesonthebeach.com/
Pascal Quignard
2025
Anna DeForest
Mauro Javier Cardenas - American Abductions
J.M. Tyree - The Haunted Screen.
Ryan Ruby - Context Collapse
Nathan Knapp
Wrong Norma - Anne Carson (first 2/3)
Guy Davenport - Essays and
Every Force Involves a Form
Across My Big Brass Bed Gary Amdahl
Sutree - Cormac McCarthy
Memoirs from Beyond The Grave - François-René de Chateaubriand
Jon Fosse - Morning and Evening
Gary Indiana - Essays
2025
My Heresies - Alina Stefanescu
Garielle lutz - Backwardness
Gabrielle Blackwell - Comment Section
American Abductions- Mauro Javier Cardenas
Hannah
Best books of 2024
Babysitters Club - Christie’s Big Day
Ada
Sister Showdown - Rachel Rene Russel
2025
New Babysitters Club - Mallory and the Trouble With The Twins
My list
Best books of 2024
Berlin Atomised
Backwardness
The Empusium
Children of the Dead
Daybook Nathan Knapp
In Suavity of the Rock
Esther Kinsky- Seeing further
Headshot - Rita Bullwinkle
Once upon Argentina
The Son of Man
Bruce Wagner
2025
Tetra Nova- Sophia Terazawa
Sam Mills - The Watermark
The National Telepathy
by Roque Larraquy
The Deserters - Mathias Énard
The Honditsch Cross Ingeborg Bachmann
The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria
Sacha Naspini -The Malcontents
Death Takes Me - Cristina Rivera Garza
Dareknbloom - Eve Menasse
All our Tomorrows - Amy De Bellis Clash
Borges Bioy Caseres
Afterward - Bristol Vardrin
Brother Bronte - Fernando A Flores
The Suicides - Antonio De Benedetto
May Our Joy Endure - Kevin Lambert
Empty Wigs - Jonathan Meades
Golden Grove - Patrick McCabe Unbound
Scahattenfroh
Andrew Gallix- Loren Ipsum
On The Calculation of volume
Wendy Erskine
David Keenan
The Delegation -Avner
Atillia - Open Letter Katie Whittimore
I Am Clarence - Elaine Kraf
The House of Madelaine: A Novel
Elizabeth Ellen - American Thighs
End of Year Special - Part 6
Mauro Javier Cárdenas
Garielle Lutz
Mark. A. Henry.
Colleen Hoover
Part 6
Mauro Javier Cárdenas
Best of 2024
Distant Star - Bolaño
Stella Maris - McCarthy
Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life - Sofia Samatar
The Captive - Christine Smallwood
Herscht 07769 - László Krasznahorkai
Lesser Ruins - Mark Haber
Looking Forward to in 2025
Los Sorias - Alberto Laiseca
Theodoros - Cărtărescu
Schattenfroh - Lenz
Berlin Atomised - Julia Kornberg
Garielle Lutz
Best of 2024
The Broken Tower The Life of Hart Crane - Paul L. Mariani
Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar - Cynthia Carr
The Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Ditlevsen
Letters to Felice and Letters to Milena and Kafka Diaries - Kafka
Virginia Woolf - Letters
Mice 1961 - Stacey Levine
Our Long and Marvelous Dying and A History of Present Illness - Anna DeForest
In The Suavity of The Rock - Greg Gerke
2025
American Thighs - Elizabeth Ellen
Ryan Ruby - Ringbahn Project
Mark A Henry
Get The Delegation here https://operationdodecahedron.com/
2024 Highlights
Sweat of the sun, tears of the moon - Peter Lourie
Goliath - Tochi Onyebuchi
Bird by Bird Anne Lamott
Megan Collins - Cross My Heart
End Year Special - Part 5
Andrei from The Untranslated
James Rosewarne
Nicholas Rombes
Miles Beard
Iain Smith
Part 5 Show Notes
Andrei
Best books of 2024
La Sorias - Alberto Laiseca
The Obscene Bird of Night - Jose Donoso
H.R. Giger - https://www.amazon.com.au/Giger-Andreas-J-Hirsch/dp/383657716X
Theodoros - Cartarescu
Antonio Moresco - Canto del buio e della luce
Nostalgia - Cartarescu
Blue Lard Sorokin
Watt - Samuel Beckett
Ernesto Sabato - Trilogy El Túnel (1948), Sobre héroes y tumbas (1961) and Abaddón el exterminador (1974).
Sátántangó - LK
2025
Schattenfroh - Lenz
Attilla - Aliocha Coll
ATTILA - Javier Serena
https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/attila
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War - Lyndal Roper
Jonathan Meads - Empty Wigs
https://unbound.com/books/empty-wigs
Dispatches from the District Committee - Sorokin
César Vallejo - Poetry
Complete Seamus Heaney
Beckett - Trilogy
James Rosewarne
Best of 2024
Tomás Nevinson - Javier Marías
Fulgentius - Cesar Aira
Class Trip - Emmanuel Carrere
John Banville
Georges Simenon-
Godwin - Joseph O’Neill
The Lone Woman - Bernardo Atxaga
Peace Talks - Tim Finch
Nicholas Rombes
James - Percival Everett
Jeff VanderMeer - Absolution
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez
2025
Luminous - Sylvia Park
Audition - Katie Kitamura
Iain Smith
Let The Boys Play - Nicholas John Turner
Michael Kohlhaas - Heinrich von Kleist
John Cowper Powys - A Glastonbury Romance
Looking forward to in 2025
10 - Juan Emar
Ann Quinn
Gabriel Blackwell
Alexander Zanoviev - The Madhouse
La Medusa - Venessa Place
Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright
Fresan - Trilogy
Schattenfroh - Lenz
Miles Beard
Highlights of 2024
The Unconsoled - Ishiguro
Looking forward to in 2025
Hermione Lee - Anita Brookner
End of Year Special Part 4
Featuring :
Jen Craig
Nicholas During
D. Frederick Thomas
Eli McLean
Paul Dalgarno
Part 4
Show notes
Jen Craig
Best of 2024
Paradise Estate - Max Easton
Jakob Von Guten - Walser
Let The Boys Play - Nicholas John Turner
Janet Frame - Owls Do Cry
Eve Langley - The Pea Pickers
Greg Gerke - In The Suavity of The Rock
2025
Michelle de Kretser - Theory and Practice
Pip Adam - Audition
Catherine Rey - Lovers
The Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Ditlevsen
Vigdis Hjorth - If Only
Mauro Javier Cardenas - American Abductions
Nicholas During from NYRB
Best of 2024
Edwin Frank - Stranger Than Fiction
The Pornographer - John McGahern
Blue Lard - Sorokin
Upcoming in 2025
https://www.nyrb.com/collections/forthcoming
The Suicides - Antonio di Benedetto
On Writers and Writing - Henry James
Perfection - Vincenzo Latronico
Sun City- Tove Jansson
Water - Rumi
Frog In The Throat - Marcus Werner
Eli McLean
https://meanjin.com.au/interviews/all-colour-and-light-an-interview-with-gerald-murnane/
Best of 2024
Marxist Modernism - Gillian Rose
Wittgenstein’s Mistress - Markson
Guy Davenport - Every Force Evolves a Form
I Am Not Sidney Poitier - Percival Everett
Hospital - Sanya Rushdi
HOLOCENE POINTBREAKS -Jake Goetz
2025
On The Calculation of Volume - Solvej Balle
Killing Stella - Marlen Haushofer
The Seal Woman - Beverley Farmer
Lucy Nelson - Wait Here
POETS AND THEIR ENEMIES - Louis Klee
The Athletics of Resistance - Peter Weiss
D.Frederick Thomas
2024 Highlights
Sheila Heti - Alphabetical Diaries
Night Palace Mount Eerie
Stacey Levine - Dra—
Audition - Pip Adam
Nevada - Imogen Binnie
Tape For The Turn of The Year - A. R. Ammons
The Yellow Notebooks - Helen Garner
2025
Good Lord - Ella Frears
TOM MCALLISTER - It All Felt Impossible
Girlhood x A Haunting - Jessica Rae Bergamino
Pathemata - Maggie Nelson
RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS - Drafts
Musashi - Yoshikawa Eiji
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
The Tunnel - William H Gass
The Swan Book - Alexis Wright
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Murakami - Kafka On The Shore 1Q84
Gilgamesh
End of Year Special Part 3
David Keenan and Wendy Erskine
Julia Kornberg
Max Lawton
Erin Vincent
Show Notes
PART 4
Wendy Erskine and David Keenan
Buy The Benefactors by Wendy In June 2025 from Sceptre
Buy David’s Volcanic Tongue from:
https://store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/volcanic-tongue
Highlights of 2024
A Time of Cherries - Montserrat Roig
Spent Life - Laura Pawson
Mrs. Caliban - Rachel Ingalls
Monumenta - Lara Howorth
Danilo Kiš -Encyclopaedia of The Dead
Clay - A Human History by Jennifer Lucy Allen
Artaud 1937 Apocalypse: Letters from Ireland - Antonin Artaud
Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock’n'Roll - Peter Guralnick
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 - Peter Cole (Trans)
2025
The Benefactors - Wendy Erskine
The Expansion Project - Ben Pester
The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth - Adrian Duncan
Base Notes - Adelle Stripe
Julia Kornberg
Highlights 2024
You Glow in The Dark - Liliana Colanzi
The Queens’ Ball - COPI
In Translation by Kit Schluter - 2025
Catherine Lacey -New book
Max Lawton
Best of 2024
Bleak House - Dickens
Pitch Dark Renata Adler
Light Years - James Salter
Mating - Norman Rush
Obscene Bird Of Night - Donoso
Table of Fortune - Vollmann
Mary Gaitskill - Bad Behaviour
Will Self - Elaine
Conrad - The Secret Sharer and Typhoon
Theodoros - Cartarescu
The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
Iain Sinclair - Pariah Genius
On The Calculation of Volume - Solvej Balle
Erin Vincent
2024 Highlights
Roland Barthes - The Preparation of the Novel
Maggie Nelson - Jane - A Murder
When I Sing Mountains Dance - Irene Solà
Lara Pawson - Spent Light and This Is The Place to Be
The Haunted Screen - J.M. Tyree
Brown Girls - Daphne Palasi Andreades
Vessel - Dani Netherclift
Pablo Katchadjian - What To Do and Thanks
Looking forward to in 2025
Helen DeWitt & Ilya Gridneff - Your Name Here
Irene Solà - I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth - Maggie Nelson
End of year Special - Part 2
Ben Slotky
Avner Landes, Sara Lippmann, Adam Levin
Daniel Davis Wood, Bristol Vaudrin
Dustin Illingworth
Show notes
Part 2
Ben Slotky
- Best of 2024
Mariana Enriquez Short stories and Our Share of Night
Jessica Anthony - The Most
James Ellroy
Paul Auster
Adam Levin, Avner Landes, Sara Lippmann
Get The Delegation By Avner in April from https://operationdodecahedron.com/
Get Smashing The Tablets edited by Sara and Seth Rogoff here in April
https://sunypress.edu/Books/S/Smashing-the-Tablets
Highlights of 2024
Hotel Egypt - Stuart Ross
Living with our dead. Stories of loss and consolation - Delphine Horvilleur
Like it Matters - Lee Klein
The Material - Camile Bordas
Jesse Ball - The Repeat Room
Jill Ciment - Consent
Cynthia Ozick - The Cannibal Galaxy
The Little brothers of St Mortimer - John Fergus Ryan
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
- Natasha Trethewey
Apeirogon - Colum McCann
Minor Detail - Adania Shibli
Nicole Kraus - Forest Dark
Elisa Albert - The Snarling Girls / How This Night is Different
Fruit of the Dead - Rachel Lion
God of The Woods - Liz Moore
The Propheteers -Max Apple
Butcher’s Crossing - John Williams
Jernigan - David Gates
The Name of The World - Denis Johnson
Golk - Richard G. Stern
Looking forward to in 2025
Hotel Egypt - Stuart Ross
The Delegation - Avner Landes
Christian TeBordo - Discord - A Regression
Afterward - Bristol Vaudrin
Berlin Atomised - Julia Kornberg
More Cynthia Ozick
Joseph Roth
Shayne Terry - Leave
The Anatomy of Exile: A Novel - Zeeva Bukai
The Novelist - Jordan Castro
The Woodcutters - Bernard
The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker
Bristol Vaudrin and Daniel Davis Wood
Afterward coming out on March 4th from Tortoise books
Highlights of 2024
We Will all Still See Each Other Afterward - Tyler Dempsey
Alphabetical Diaries - Sheila Heti
Laura Pawson - Spent Light
Garielle Lutz - Backwardness
All My Precious Madness - Thomas Bowles
Let The Boys Play - Nicholas John Turner
2025 list
Sexy Life Hello - Michelle Kicherer
New Christian TeBordo
The Instructions - Adam Levin
New Sergio De La Pava, New Mark Haber, Miss Mackintosh My Darling
Stephen Downs - Mural
Schattenfroh
New Helen DeWitt - Your Name Here
The Deserters - Enard
Andrew Gallix - Loren Ipsen
Dustin Illingworth
Highlights of 2024
The Obscene Bird of Night - Donoso
Edwin Frank - Stranger Than Fiction
Herscht 07769
Children of The Dead - Elfriede Jelinek
Gretel And The Great War - Adam Erlich Sachs
2025
Schattenfroh
The Suicides - Antonio di Benedetto
Visions and Temptations
by Harald Voetmann
Borges - Adolfo Bioy Casares,
End of Year Special Part 1
Part 1
Lee Klein
https://www.litfunforever.com/
Best book read in 2024 Always Crashing In Same Car - Lance Olsen
Percival Everett books
Megan McDowell
Fates and Furies - Lauren Groff
Elena Garro - Biography
Looking forward to in 2025
The National Telepathy - Roque Larraquy
Richard Milward
Highlights 2024
In The Jingle Jangle Jungle - Joel Gion
Ava Anna Ada - Ali Millar
2025
Richard Foster - Punk Rock Bird Watching Club
David Keenan - Volcanic Tongue
Adele Stripe - Base Notes
Blake Butler
2024
Alphabetical Diaries - Sheila Heti
Flunker Denis - Cooper
The Abyss - Fernando Vallejo
My Lesbian Novel - Renee Gladden
The Last Sane Woman - Hannah Regel
2025
The Honditsch Cross - Ingeborg Bachmann
The Deserters - Mathias Énard
Inger Christensen - The Painted Room
Ian J Baker - MR O WINDS BACK THE CLOCK
https://ijbaker.com.au
Julia Kornberg - BERLIN ATOMIZED
@sputnikon3
Buy the book here:
https://astrapublishinghouse.com/product/berlin-atomized-9781662602856/
Gateway books
Savage Detectives
Collected Borges
Salinger
T.S Elliot poetry
Desert Island Books
Anna Karenina
Borges - Ficciones
Buenos Aires Affair - Puig
Hour of The Star - Lispector
Hopscotch - Cortazar
Ulysses - Joyce
L'Internationale Argentine - Copi
Opperation Shylock - Roth
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento -Facundo
MELVILL by Rodrigo Fresán with Will Vanderhyden
@WillVanderhyden
Buy Melvill from
https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/melvill-1
Gateway books
Infinite Jest
Gravity’s Rainbow
Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson
Picksongs and Descants - Coover
Lost In The Funhouse - Barth
If on a Winter’s Night A Traveller
Current reads
The Annual Banquet of The Gravediggers Guild - Enard
You Dreamed of Empires - Alvaro Enrigue
The Extinction of Irene Rey - Jenny Croft
Solenoid - Cartarescu
Bruna Dantas Lobato - Blue Light Hours
The Book of Losman - K.E. Semmel
Mark Haber - Lesser Ruins
New Teju Cole and Yuri Herrera
Desert Island Books
La velocidad de las cosas - Fresan
Nabokov - Transparent Things
Waiting for the Barbarians - Coetzee
War and War - Lazlo K
Runaway
Post Colonial Love Poem
Distant Star / By Night In Chile
60 Stories - Donald Barthelme
Distant Star - Lispector
Invention of Morel - Adolfo Bioy Casares
Infinite Jest
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden - Denis Johnson