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Gateway books
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Paul Auster - City of Glass
Rachel Cusk - Second Place
Currently reading/ Looking forward to
Kevin Barry
Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son /Poetry
Brian Evenson - New collection
https://coffeehousepress.org/products/good-night-sleep-tight
Salman Rushdie - Knife
Desert Island Books
Ottessa Moshfegh - Death in Her Hands
Robert Aickman
https://josevergara.net
https://encyclopediaofthedog.com
Gateway books
James and the Giant Peach - Dahl
Redwall books - Brian Jacques
In Cold Blood - Capote
Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome
Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude
Invisible Man - Ellison
Slaughter House Five - Vonnegut
Ceremony - Leslie Marion Silko
Lolita - Nabokov
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
Current reads / recently enjoyed / looking forward to
Checkout 19 - Claire-Louise Bennett
Finnegan's Wake - Joyce
Extinction of Irena Rey - Jenny Croft
You Dreamed of Empires - Álvaro Enrigue
Ernestine Hayes
Fifteen Dogs - André Alexis
Mark Z. Danielewski
Ulysses
Daniil Kharms
Encyclopedia
Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin
Borges - Short Stories
Lincoln in the Bardo - Saunders
Anna Kerenina - Tolstoy
Gone Went Gone - Jenny Erpenbeck
https://theuntranslated.wordpress.com
Gateway books
Nikolay Kun. “Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece”.Yulian Semyonov. “Seventeen Moments of Spring”.Alexander Belyaev. “Professor Dowell's Head” and “Amphibian Man”.Steven King's novels.Vladimir Sorokin. Collected Works in two volumes and “Blue Lard”Recently finished bookAntonio Moresco. “Canto del buio e della luce”.Desert island booksThomas Pynchon. “Gravity's Rainbow”.
James Joyce. “Ulysses”.
Fernando del Paso. “José Trigo.”
Michael Lentz. “Schattenfroh”.
Miquel de Palol. “El Troiacord”.
Andrei Bely. “Petersburg”.
Umberto Eco. “The Name of the Rose”.
Jorge Luis Borges. “Ficciones” and “The Aleph”
Milorad Pavić. “Dictionary of the Khazars”.
Homer. “Odyssey”.
Rońań Hession - GHOST MOUNTAIN
@MumblinDeafRo
Buy Rońań’s books from ;
https://bluemoosebooks.com/books/author/ronan-hession
Gateway books / Authors
Asterix Comics
Samuel Beckett
Walter Macken
Eileen Battersby - reviews
Japanese literature
Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hiromi Kawakami
Chichi to Ran - Mieko Kawakami
Yoko Tawada
Current reads / recently enjoyed /looking forward to
Plague of Souls - Mike McCormack
Heart be at Peace - Donal. Ryan
Cannibals - Shinya Tanaka
Five Spice Street Can Xue
The Physics of Sorrow - Georgi Gospodinov
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild - Mathias Énard
Spent Light - Lara Pawson
The Sarah Book - Scott McClanahan
Desert Island books
Montaigne - Essays
Jon Fosse - Septology
Ágota Kristóf - Trilogy
Daša Drndić - EEG and Belladona
Alan Bennett - Diaries
https://www.maurojaviercardenas.com
buy the book from :
https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/american-abductions
Current reads /looking forward to
The Pinochet File - Peter Kornbluh
Mónica Ojeda
Herscht 07769 - László Krasznahorkai
Gateway books
Correction - Thomas Bernhard
Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald
Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker
To The Light House - Virginia Woolf
Desert Island books:
Melancholy of Resistance
Collected Novellas of Bolano
Annotated Mrs Dalloway - with Merve Emre
Chris Via
https://www.youtube.com/@LeafbyLeaf/videos
Gateway books and authors
Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson
Michael Crichton
Stephen King
Richard Laymon
Current reads, Looking forward to
Nexus - Noah Yuval Harari
Rachel Cusk new book
Herscht 07769 - László Krasznahorkai
The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk
Annihilation - Michel Houellebecq
Every Arc Bends Its Radian - Sergio De La Lava
The Instructions - Adam Levin
The New Testament - David Bentley Hart
The Tunnel - Gass
Benjamin Labatut - The Maniac
Pure Color - Sheila Heti
Desert Island books
Borges - Ficciones
Shakespeare
Iliad and The Odyssey
Complete Essays - Montaigne
King James Bible
Moby Dick
Proust - In Search of Lost Time
Ulysses - Joyce
Don Quixote
https://www.meganmcdowelltranslation.com
Order here :
https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-obscene-bird-of-night/
Other books coming up from Megan in translation
José Donoso - La misteriosa desaparición de la marquesita de Loria - Coming next year
Mariana Enriquez - A Sunny Place for Shady People (SEPT)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757704/a-sunny-place-for-shady-people-by-mariana-enriquez-translated-by-megan-mcdowell/
Alejandro Zambra - Childish Literature (OCT)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737144/childish-literature-by-alejandro-zambra-translated-by-megan-mcdowell/
New Samanta Schweblin collection
Le fantôme de Truman Capote - Leila Guerriero
Other books mentioned:
Leila Guerriero - La llamada
La reina de las espadas - Jazmina Barrera (Upcoming translation from Two Lines)
Adam Levin
Buy The Bar Mitzva Edition here:
https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-instructions-bar-mitzvah-edition?taxon_id=1
Other books mentioned
Camille Bordas - The Material
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737042/the-material-by-camille-bordas/
No Judgment - Lauren Oyler
Wild Houses - Colin Barrett
Nathan Knapp
https://nathanknappwrites.wordpress.com/
Buy Daybook here
https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/
Gateway books
Lord of the Rings
Notes From The Underground - Dostoyevsky
Fear and Trembling - Søren Kierkegaard
Annie Dillard
é Hill
Cormac McCarthy
In The Suavity of The Rock - Greg Gerke
Mauro Javier Cardenas - American Abductions
Adam Erlich Sachs - Getel and the Great War
Gabriel Blackwell - Comment Section
Desert Island Books
Dream Songs - John Berryman
Witold Gombrowicz - Diary
Emil Cioran - Anathemas and Admirations
Gathering Evidence - Bernhard
Norwood - Charles Portis
God's Country - Percival Everett
Sound and The Fury
Ulysses
The Moviegoer Walker Percy
Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek translated by Gitta Honegger
Buy the book here :
https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780300142150
Part 1
Dustin Illingworth
https://www.dustinillingworth.com/
Other books mentioned -
The Obscene Bird of Night - Jose Donoso
Adam Erlich Sachs - Gretel and the Great War
Paul Celan And The Trans-Tibetan Angel Yoko Tawada
Mauro Javier Cardenas - American Abductions
Herscht 07769
https://www.ndbooks.com/book/herscht-07769/
Part 2
Gitta Honegger
Gateway books/authors
Albert Camus
Simone de Beauvoir
Arundhati Roy
Colson Whitehead - Harlem Shuffle, Underground Railway
James - Percival Everett
Thomas Bernhard - Correction
Wittgenstein
Mark Twain - The Awful German Language
https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html
Desert Island books
Thomas Bernhard - Correction
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Louise Erdrich
Garielle Lutz - Backwardness
Get the book here:
https://www.hobartpulp.com/books/backwardness
Recently enjoyed / Currently Reading / Looking forward to:
The Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Ditlevsen
James Salter
Janet Malcolm
Greg Gerke - The Suavity of the Rock
William Hazlitt
Virginia Woolf - Essays
Mice 1961 - Stacey Levine
Our Long Marvelous Dying - Anna DeForest
Ben Tanzer
https://www.tanzerben.com/
Get The Missing From : https://713books.com/forthcoming/
Gateway books
The Basketball Diaries - Jim Carroll
Cruddy - Linda Barry
Hairstyles of the Dammed - Joe Meno
American Skin - Don De Grazia
Meditations from a Movable Chair - Andre Dubus
Bastard out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
Torres
Currently reading and looking forward to
Sleeping with Friends - Emily Shultz
The Peer Effect - Syed Ali
Jacket Weather - Mike DeCapite
We Are Too Many - Hannah Pittard
Hanif Abdurraqib - There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Meditations from a Movable Chair - Andre Dubus
Excavatio - Wendy C. Ortiz
Naked - David Sedaris
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsBook - Chuck Klosterman
Robert Chandler
Buy Chevengur from NYRB
https://www.nyrb.com/products/chevengur
Gateway books
Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Currently reading;
Emily Dickinson
Dante
John Clare
Andrei Kurkov
Vladimir Sharov
Penelope Fitzgerald
D.H. Lawrence
Desert Island Books
The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
John Clare
Rudyard Kipling - Kim
Emily Dickinson
Dante
https://www.hachette.com.au/keiran-goddard/i-see-buildings-fall-like-lightning
@keirangoddard1
https://www.keirangoddard.com/
Gateway books
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Albert Camus - The Outsider
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Pablo Neruda - Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Jude The Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Currently Reading
- Édouard Louis - Change
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis - Nick Bano
Leslie Jamison - Splinters
Desert Island Books
- The Seven Story Mountain - Thomas Merton
-The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes - Jonathan Rose
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Happy Like Murderers - Gordon Burn
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Collected Poems - Elizabeth Bishop
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Collected Poems - Rilke
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D.H. Lawrence - Women in Love
Clemens. J. Setz
Clemens Podcast with Barbra Zeman https://open.spotify.com/show/37bbq41uotsGq4GfM09f9Y?si=24a23d7432ab4ef0
Gateway books / books and authors mentioned
Megan Boyle - Live Blog
Blake Butler - 300 000 000, Molly, AANNEX
Juliet Escoria
Scott McClanahan - The Sarah Book
Kenzaburō Ōe - Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!
Brutt, or The Sighing Gardens - Friederike Mayröcker
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware
Currently reading / Recently enjoyed
Heaven and Hell Book - Emanuel Swedenborg
Mary Ruefle
Christoph Ransmayr - Cox, Or, The Course of Time also new stories coming out.
Desert Island Books
Dictionary of the Brother's Grimm (Deutsches Wörterbuch)
Book of Psalms - Robert Alter
David Cotner
Buy A History of Violence (1973) here
https://www.ninebandedbooks.com/shop/book/a-history-of-violence-1973/
David's Instagram violencestories
Gateway books
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Orgies and Troilism
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Strangely Enough C.B. Colby
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A Void - Georges Perec
Current reads
Forgotteness by Tanja Maljartschuk
KIKI MAN RAY: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
- Mark Braude
Nick Solsby - Everything Keeps Dissolving
Maya Deren -Choreographed for CameraBook - Mark Alice Durant
- Norman Mailer - The Fight (Tachen Edition)
Desert Island Books
Alan Watts - The Way of Zen
Death of a Citizen - Donald Hamilton
Henry Miller - Reader
Treasury of David Runyon
Wittgenstein - Uncertainty
Norman Mailer - Cannibals and Christians
Psychotronic Encyclopaedia of Film
Latest Findings - Jaques Vallée
History of Underground Comics
Collected E.E. Cummings
http://croftwork.net/about
BUY The Extinction of Irena Rey here :
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Or https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/extinction-of-irena-rey-9781639731701/
Gateway books / Authors
Anna Karenina
Witold Gombrowicz
Wisława Szymborska
Chekhov
Current Reads
How to be Multiple - Helena de Bres
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Gerald Murnane - Stream System
New Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars
Desert Island Books
Virginie Despentes - Vernon Subutex
Yiyun Li - Short Stories
Proust
Borges
Wisława Szymborska
Carl Philips - poetry
https://taniaderozario.com/
Buy Dinner on Monster Island here:
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/dinner-on-monster-island-tania-de-rozario?variant=41057238417442&fbclid=IwAR1ODMgac7PZy7Hbjk5EL-pxIpKWcZfs06_kE0yRJ2_Nw-YeT8wKmwXQnHo
Gateway books
IT -Stephen King
Current reads/ Looking forward to :
The Hchom Book - Marian Churchland
Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco - by K. Ive
Big Mall - Kate Black
Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
Crush - Richard Sikin
Like a Seed with Its Singular Purpose- Cyril Wong
The Gospel of Breaking - Jillian Christmas
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
Buy the book here:
https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/corey-fah-does-social-mobility
@isabelwaidner
https://linktr.ee/isabelwaidner
Gateway books / Authors
Kafka
Goethe - Faust
Samuel Beckett
Dodie Bellamy
Kevin Killian
Robert Clark
Steve Abbott - The Lizard Club
Currently reading/Recently enjoyed/looking forward to
Hangman - Maya Binyam
Drive Your Plow… Olga Tokarczuk
New Olga Tokaeczuk
Adam Thirlwell - Future Future
Brontez Purnell - Ten Bridges I’ve Burned
Desert Island Books
Drive Your Plow
Corey Fah
Advanced Elvis Course - C.A. Conrad
Álvaro Enrigue
Buy You Dreamed of Empires here:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722363/you-dreamed-of-empires-by-alvaro-enrigue-translated-by-natasha-wimmer/
Gateway books
The Red and the Black
José Agustín - De perfil
Don Quixote
Current reads
Werner Hertzog - Every Man for Himself and God against All
Camila Sosa Villada - Tesis sobre una domesticación
Man, Play and Games - Roger Caillois
Desert Island Books
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Works of Juana Inés de la Cruz
https://kellysather.com/
Buy Small in Real Life here:
https://upittpress.org/books/9780822947998/
Gateway books / Authors
Agatha Christie
Catch-22
Amy Hempel
Mary Robson
Alice Munro
Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson
William Trevor
Mavis Gallant
Currently reading:
Western Lane - Chetna Maroo
Nothing Special - Nicole Flattery
Claire Keegan - Foster
Ian Forster - Room With a View / Howard’s End
Desert Island Books
Virginia Woolf - To the LightHouse
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Joan Didion
Lucile Clifton - Poems
Paris Review - Author Interviews
Donald Nicholson-Smith
Jean-Patrick Manchette
Books/authors mentioned
Léo Malet
Thierry Jonquet - Mygale
Didier Daeninckx - Murder in Memoriam
Upcoming works - B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown - Golo
https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1664
Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures - Yvan Alagbé
https://www.nyrb.com/products/yellow-negroes-and-other-imaginary-creatures
Fag Hag - Lola Miesseroff https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1501
Gateway books
Gregory Rabassa - If This Be Treason
Current reads
God’s Teeth and Other Phenomenon - James Kelman
Dorothy B. Hughes - The Expendable Man
The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber and David Wengrow
Desert Island Books
Shakespeare
Montaigne - Essays
Walter Benjamin
The Bible
Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro - Translated by Cory Stockwell
@mariette.navarro
Buy Ultramarine from :
https://www.heloisepress.com/book/ultramarine
@cory_stockwell
Gateway books
Mariette:
The Odyssey
Moby Dick
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Albert Cohen - Belle du Seigneur
Madame Bovary
Cory:
Borges
Shakespeare
The Bible
Other books mentioned :
Percival Everett
Helen DeWitt - The English Understand Wool
Thomas Hardy - Tess
The Culture of Narcissism - Christopher Lasch
John Heldman - Imelda
https://www.alimillar.com/
https://alimillar.substack.com/
@ali_l_millar
https://store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/ava-anna-ada
reads
Anthology
Criticism
Greil Marcus - Lipstick Traces
Nigel Slater - Kitchen Diaries
Moby Dick
War and Peace
Emmett Stinson
- 2023 Highlights
Wall - Jen Craig
Mircea Cărtărescu - Solenoid
Domenico Starnone - The House on Via Gemito
Vertigo - Amanda Lorry
Denis Johnson - Train Dreams
Dag Solstad - Novel 11 book 18
2024
A Bended Circuity - Robert S Stickley
Elfriede Jelinek - Children of the Dead
Alina Stefanescu
Andrei Platinov - Chevengur
Avner, Adam, Sarah
Zachery Solomon - A Brutal Design
Ravel: A Novel - Jean Echenoz
2666 - Roberto Bolaño
Hopscotch - Cortazar
The Instructions - Adam Levin
Past Continuous - Yaakov Shabtai
Gretel and the Great War: A Novel - Adam Ehrlich Sachs
The Material - Camille Bordas
Apastoral - Lee D Thomson
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma - Claire Dederer
Upcountry - Chin-Sun Lee
No One to Come Looking For You - Sam Lipsyte
Stella Maris and the Passenger - McCarthy
The New Naturals - Gabriel Bump
Winter Quarters: A Novel of Argentina - Osvaldo Soriano
Tomas Nevinson - Marias
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Domenico Starnone - Trick
2024
Christian TeBordo - We Go Liquid,
The Discord Regression
Jesse Ball- The Repeat Room
Jill Ciment - Consent
James - Percival Everett
Bristol Vaudrin - Afterward
Ben Tanzer - The Missing
Steve Almond - Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow
Sara Lipman and Seth Rogoff - Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible
Seth W.A.S.T.E Mailing List and Me
Best of 2023
Aannex - Blake Butler
A Bended Circuity - Robert S Stickley
Dolly City - Orly Castel-Bloom
Thomas the Obscure - Maurice Blanchot
Heart Crane - White Buildings
Saint Sebastian’s Abyss - Mark Haber
Wittgestein’s Mistress - Markson
Ada - Nabokov
Looking forward to :
Blue Lard and Red Pyramid - Vladimir Sorokin
New Mark Haber novel
Elfriede Jelinek - Children of the Dead
My Highlights of 2023
- Bret Eastern Ellis - The Shards
The new Cormac McCarty books
Morning Star - Knausgard
Roar by Bruce Wagner and Also The Marvel Universe.
Lee Klein’s Chaotic Good
Nefando by Monica Ojeda
Devil of the provinces by Juan Cardenas
Ava Anna Ada by Ali smith (out in Jan)
Malina
Water Statues
David Keenan’s England’s Hidden Reverse
Australian highlights Paul Delgarno’s a country of eternal light, Emmett’s book on Murnane and Late by Michael Fitzgerald.
Seth Rogoff’s book The Kirshbaum lectures, The two most recent Manchette books were great, Bariloche by Andres Neuman, The Kafka Diaries translated by Ross Benjamin, Voyager by Nona Fernandez, Paul Lynch Prophet Song.
Book of the year Man Eating Typewriter by Richard Milward
Daybook by Nathan Knapp
Forthcoming on April 26, 2024 Splice
In the Suavity of the Rock
by Greg Gerke
Forthcoming on June 28, 2024
Knausgaard’s debut novel - Archipelago in November - Out of the world
The Goldilocks Variations- Coover Deep Vellum November
Melvil Rodrigo Fresan – Open Letter July
Fog & Car
by Eugene Lim
Published by: Coffee House Press July
The Stain
by Rikki Ducornet
Published by: Deep Vellum Publishing
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press July
Commission of Tears
Portuguese Literature
by Antonio Lobo Antunes – APRIL
Sensitive Anatomy and Once upon Argentina April
by Andrés Neuman Open Letter
The Rachel Condition March
by Nicholas Rombles
Published by: CLASH Books
The Dark Side of Skin
by Jeferson Tenório – Charco Feb
Cesaria - by Hanna Nordenhok from Heloise
American Abductions
by Mauro Javier Cardenas
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Bad Foundations
by Brian Allen Carr
Published by: CLASH Books – Jan
Mahler Erasures by John Kinsella
Verdigris
by Michele Mari
Translated by Brian Robert Moore
Book of Ayn by Lexi Freiman -
Thomas kendall - HOW I KILLED THE UNIVERSAL MAN
David Leo Rice – The Berlin Wall
Jenny Croft The Extinction of Irena Rey - Feb
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel
Yoko Tawada
Ten - Juan Emar
And The Besieged City - Clarice Lispector
Way Far Away
by Evelio Rosero
Ed Park - Same Bed Different Dreams
Prey for the Shadow by Javier Cercas
Part 4
David Leo Rice
New books in 2024
The Berlin Wall
The Squimbop Condition
Conclusion to the Dodge City series -
A Room in Dodge City Volume 3
Highlights of 2023
Adam Levin
Mount Chicago and Bubblegum and looking forward to the reissue of The Instructions
The Morning Star - Karl Ove Knausgård
Looking forward to The Wolves of Eternity
The Shards - BEE
The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy
The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut
Peace - Gene Wolf
The General of the Dead Army - Ismail Kadare
Patrick Modiano books
Pet Cemetery - Stephen King
2024
The Obscene Bird of Night - Jose Donoso
How I killed The Universal Man - Thomas Kendall
Inland - Murnane
Molly - Blake Butler
Other Minds - Bennett Simms
New Houellebecq
Same Bed Different Dreams - Ed Park
Youval Shimoni - The Salt Line / A Room
Merve Emre
K Patrick - Mrs S
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice - Cristina Rivera Garza
Catherine Lacey - Biography of X
The Rigour of Angels - William Eggington
Art Monsters - Lauren Elkin
The Man Who Cried I am - John A Williams
The Chapter - Nicke Dames
2024
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility - Isabel Waidner
Sheila Heti - Alphabet Diaries
Biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson Glad to the Brink of Fear- James Marcus
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins- Stefanos Geroulanos
How the World Made the West - Josephine Crawley Quinn
Alexis Wright - Praiseworthy
Monkey Grip - Helen Garner
Inland - Murnane
Something Speaks to me - Michel Chaouli
Odd Affinities
- Elizabeth Abel
Daniel Fraser
2023
Peter Levy - Poetry
A.V. Marrachini - We The Parasites
Maurice Blanchot - Kevin Hart
Hotel Splendid - Marie Redonnet
2024
Celan Letters to Gisèle
Obscene Bird of Night
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel - Yoko Tawada
See also Antonio Tabucchi Requiem
New Anne Carson book - Wrong Norma
Crisis Actor - Declan Ryan
Ada
Best book of 2023 - Making Friends 3 - Kristen Gudsnuk
Looking forward to in 2024 - Making Friends 4
Richard Milward
Best of 2023
Fingers Crossed Miki Berenyi
Ali Millar - The Last Days
Luke Turner - Men at War
Lolita - Reread
Irving Welsh - Trainspotting
Collected Alan Ginsberg
2024
Ava Anna Ada - Ali Millar
New David Keenan
Joel Gion - In the Jingle Jangle Jungle
Richard Foster - Flower Factory
Bram Presser
Columba's Bones: Darkland Tales - David Greig
Of Cattle and Men - Ana Paula Maia
Gibbons - James Morrison
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility - Isabel Waidner
Sebastian Castillo - SALMON
The Crane Husband - Kelly Barnhill
Philippe Claudel - German Fantasia
Vladimir Voinovich - The Fur Hat
The Confessions of a False Soul - Ilarie Voronca
The Strangers - Jon Bilbao
Max Porter - Shy
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain - Victoria MacKenzie
Study for Obedience - Sarah Bernstein
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
Biography of X - Catherine Lacey
Justin Torres - Blackout
Gone to the Wolves - John Wray
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers Guild - Enard
My Work - Olga Ravn
Marie NDiaye - Vengeance is Mine
Jenny Croft - The Extinction of Irena Rey
Jen Craig
Highlights of 2023
Vigdis Hjorth - Is Mother Dead
Fleur Jaeggy - Sweet Days of Discipline
Annie Ernaux -
The Sitter - Angela O’Keeffe
Paul Dalgarno - A Country of Eternal Light
2024
Grimmish
More
Vigdis Hjorth
Fleur Jaeggy
Lisa Robinson The Baudelaire Fractal
The Tunnel - William Gass
Collected Stories - Clarice Lispector
Cesar Aira
Martin Shaw
http://www.thebooksdesk.com/
Highlights 2023 from Shaw authors :
Jen Craig
Pip Adam
Angela O’Keefe - The sitter
Other highlights
Tomas Nevinson - Javier Marias
Emily Perkins - Lioness
Looking forward to
Max Easton - Paradise Estate
Politica - Yumna Kassab
Lee Klein
Middlemarch
Jane Eyre
Dracula
Silas Marner
The Year/Tramp Thomas Espedal
I Served the King of England - Bohumil Hrabal
Travels with Charley - Steinbeck
Looking forward to
19th century Lit
New Enard - The Annual Dinner of the Gravediggers Guild
Vernon Subutex
Molly - Blake Butler
Werner Herzog - Memoir
Have a Bleedin Guess - Paul Hanley
The Fraud - Zadie Smith
My Favorite Thing is Monsters Volume 2 - Emil Farris
We Go Liquid - Christian TeBordo
Kevin Kohn
Best books of 2023
Man Eating Typewriter - Richard Milward
All of Sergio De La Pava
2024
Percival Everett - James
Rodrigo Fresan - Melville
Adam Levin - The Instructions Bar Mitzvah edition
Ben Slotky
https://longleafreview.com/slotky/
Best books of 2023
Maurizio De Giovanni
Raymond Carver
Tim O’Brian - America Fantastica
Flannery O’Connor
James Ellroy
Paul Dalgarno
Melissa Lucashenko - Edenglassie
In Ascension - Martin MacInnes
Salonika Burning - Gail Jones
The Drivers Seat - Muriel Spark
Danielle Laidley - Don’t Look Away
Boy Friends - Micheal Pedersen
2024
Audition - Pip Adam
The Sitter - Angela O’Keefe
Serengotti - Eugen Bacon
Double Happiness - Rochelle Siemienowicz
The Great Undoing Charlene Allsopp
Diane Josefowicz
https://www.dianejosefowicz.com/
New book L'AIR DU TEMPS (1985)
James Rosewarne
top 10 from 2023
Thus Bad Begins- Javier Marias
Honoured Guest- Joy Williams
Mysteries- Knut Hamsun
Lewis Percy- Anita Brookner
Berta Isla- Javier Marias
Interpreter of Maladies- Jhumpa Lahiri
La Lucina- Antonio Moresco
Professor Anderson's Natt- Dag Solstad
Trick- Domenico Starnone
When I Was Mortal- Javier Marias
Three 2023 re-reads which were even more remarkable 2nd and 3rd time round.
The Dog- Jospeh O'Neill
Peace Talks- Tim Finch (I really can't recommend this one enough)
Novel 11, Book 18- Dag Solstad
And the book I'm looking forward to most in 2024 is Tomas Nevinson by Javier Marias.
Katia
Katia Nosenko
- Neprosti (The UnSimple in the initial translation) by Taras Prokhasko translated by Uilleam Blacker. It will be published in English by Harvard University Press as a part of “Earth Gods”: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Earth-Gods-Writings-Ukrainian-Literature-ebook/dp/B0CDSHL6JH/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_2?crid=24Y5W0P2AHREY&keywords=earth+gods+prokashko&qid=1701781407&sprefix=earth+gods+prokhasko%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-2-fkmr2
- Shadow of forgotten ancestors by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky. The film by Sergei Paradjanov with the same title made in 1965.
- Stream System by Gerald Murnane
- The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson
- Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire in translation by Louise Varese
- Nadja by Andre Breton
- Man-eating Type Writer by Richard Millward
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- Birthday and An Episode in the life of a Landscape Painter by Cezar Aira
- 10.Ava by Carol Maso
- 11.Room by Youval Shimoni translated by Michael Sharp
- 12.The Vivisector by Patrick White
- 13.The melancholy of resistance by Lazlo Kraznokhorkai translated by George Szirtes
- 14.Tomas Neverson by Javier Marias translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
- 15.Austral by Carlos Fonseca translated by Megan Mc Dowell
Look forward to:
- Shimmering details by Peter Nadas
- Tractatus Logicus by Wittgenstein: two new translations- by Peter Booth and by Damien Searls
- A thousand thoughts in flightby Maria Gabriella Llansol
- Salt Line by Youval Shimoni
Daniel Davis Wood
https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/
Upcoming from Splice
-
Nathan Knapp - Daybook (April 2024)
-
Greg Gerke - In The Suavity of The Rock (June 2024)
Highlights of 2023
Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger and Stella Maris and rereads of his other books
Mathias Enard - The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers Guild
Oli Hazzard - Lorem Ipsem
Luke Carmen - An Ordinary Ecstasy
James Salter - Light Years
Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet
Amy Hempel - Collected stories.
2024 Recommendations
Blake Butler - Molly
Jean Baptise Del Amo - The Son of Man
Marilyn Robinson - Reading Genesis
Rob Moody-Corbett - Hides (Breakwater Books June 2024)
Iain Smith
2023 Highlights
Divine Days Leon Forrest
Ridley Walker - Russel Hoban
Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor
Garden of Seven Twilights - Miguel De Palol
Obscene Bird of Night - Jose Donoso
Antagony - Luis Goytisolo
Mercè Rodoreda - Death in Spring
The Combinations - Louis Armand
A Bended Circuity - Rob Stickley
White Dialogues - Bennett Simms
2024
Children of the Dead - Elfriede Jelinek
Chevengur - Andrei Platonov
Peter Nadas - Shimmering Details
Resta kaòtica - Ventura Ametller
Lies and Sorcery Elsa Morante
Marshland - Otohiko Kaga
The Mind Crimes of August Saint - Alain Arias- Mission
Jan Kjærstad - The Seducer
Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright
Invidicum - Michael Brodsky
Wild Horses - JORDI CUSSÀ
The Forbidden Line - Paul Stanbridge
Adam Biles - Feeding Time
Yuval Shimoni - The Salt Line
Maidenhair - Mikhail Shishkin
Guðbergur Bergsson - TÓMAS JÓNSSON, BESTSELLER
Ali Millar
Best of 2023
Bret Eason Ellis - The Shards
Man Eating Typewriter - Richard Milward
Oliver Mol - Trainload
Ali’s book Ava Anna Ada is out From White Rabbit
A.V. Marrachini
Garden of Seven Twilights - Miguel De Palol
The Japanness in Architecture
10th Century Han Poetry
Hanging Out - Sheila Liming
Balzac
Sublunar - Harald Voetmann
Mark A Henry
The Supply Chain - by Aaron Schneider
Late - Michael Fitzgerald
Golem of Brooklyn - Adam Mansbach
Pynchon Gravity’s Rainbow
The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut
Peter Orner
Light in August - Falkner
Tom Drury - The Driftless Area
Primo Levi - Moments of Reprieve
Taylor Johnson - Inheritance
Looking forward to reading
Virginia Woolf - The Waves
Grahame Greene - The Power and the Glory
Black Paper - Teju Cole
Max Lawton
Notable books coming out in 2024
- Blue Lard - Sorokin ND February
- Red Pyramid - Sorokin ND February
- Dispaches From The District Committee ND May
Other books mentioned
Washington Square - Henry James
The Shards - BEE
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
HERSCHT07769 - László Krasznahorkai
Molly - Blake Butler
The Children of the Dead - Elfriede Jelinek
Robin Myers
Books mentioned, published this year and forthcoming;
Love Training - Andrés Neuman
Bariloche - Andrés Neuman
We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (New Directions / Harville Secker, forthcoming)
The Summer of the Serpent by Cecilia Eudave (Soho Press, forthcoming)
The Trees by Claudia Peña Claros (Relegation Books, forthcoming)
A Strange Adventure by Eva Forest (Sternberg Press, forthcoming)
A Date With the Lady by Mateo García Elizondo (Charco Press, forthcoming)
Restoration by Ave Barrera, co-translated with Ellen Jones (Charco Press, forthcoming)
The Visit by Mariana Graciano (Alliteration Publishing, 2023)
Free Radicals by Rosa Beltrán (Katakana Editores/Hablemos, Escritoras, 2023)
In Vitro by Isabel Zapata (Coffee House Press, 2023)
The Law of Conservation by Mariana Spada (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023)
The Brush by Eliana Hernández Pachón (Archipelago Books, forthcoming)
Best books of 2023 and looking forward to
January
By Sara GallardoTranslated by Frances Riddle and Maureen Shaughnessy
Recital of the Dark Verses
by Luis Felipe Fabre
This Little Art - Kate Briggs
The Longform - Kate Briggs
2024
- The Extinction of Irena Rey - Jenny Croft
Traces of Enayat - Iman Mersal
Michael Winkler
Highlights 2023
Michelle de Kretser
A Horse At Night - Amina Cain
Vehicle - Jen Calleja
Wednesday’s Child - Yiyun Li
Gibbons - James Morrison
Judas Boys - Joel Dean
James Hannaham - Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
James Kelman - God's Teeth and Other Phenomena
Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright
Bird - Adam Morris
August Blue - Deborah Levy
Childhood - Shannon Burns
I’d Rather Not - Robert Skinner
Kick The Latch - Kathryn Scanlan
2024
Wayne Marshal - Henry Goes Bush
Katerina Gibson - Debut Novel
Laura Elvery - New novel
Kylie Mirmohamadi - New novel
Sarah Krasnostein - Non fiction - High Country Murders
Travis Myer
If on a Winters Night a Traveller - Calvino
Tokyo Montana Express - Richard Brautigan
Lispector -
Passion According to G.H.
An Apprenticeship
Agua Viva
Pessoa - Book of Disquiet
The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut
Mount Chicago - Adam Levin
A Bended Circuity - Robert S Stickley
Sunflower - Tex Gresham
Grimmish - Michael Winkler
Gass- Omensetter’s Luck
Ed Parks - Same Bed Different Dreams
Solenoid - Cartarescu
A High Wind In Jamaica
Solarium - Braden Matthew
Oscar Submerges - Zach Tanner
Ben Diamond
Best book
Anything That Moves - Jamie Stuart
Sarah Marie - Literal Nobody
Best books of the year
Soldiers Hunters not Cowboys - Aaron Tucker
Burr - Brooke Lockyer
Love is a Place But You Cannot Live There - Jade Wallace
Most anticipated in 2024 - Bird Suit Sydney Hegele
Zachery Issenberg
Red and the Black - Stendhal
Zone and Compass - Enard
We are a Haunting - Tyriek White
Tour of the Black Clocks Steve Erickson
An Impossible Object - Nicholas Mosley
Carpentaria - Alexis Wright
2024
The Obscene Bird of Night José Dononso
Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright
Sean McCallum
Best books of 2023
Mark A Henry
The Honolulu Situation
A Naked Singularity - Sergio De La Pava
Conversation in the Cathedral - Maria Vargas Llosa
The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
Buy Mark's books here https://operationdodecahedron.com/
Find him on social media
@markahenrybooks
Sam Lipsyte
Buy No One Left To Come Looking For You here:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/no-one-left-to-come-looking-for-you/18850055?ean=9781501146121
Gateway books / writers
Thomas Pynchon
Donald Barthelme
Stanley Elkin
Tom McGunane
Barry Hannah
Padget Powell
Ben Marcus
Moby Dick
Philip Roth - Sabbath’s Theatre
Joseph Roth
Issac Babel
Tolstoy
James Joyce
Samuel Beckett
Currently reading/recently enjoyed/looking forward to
Javier Marias - Your Face Tomorrow Trilogy
My Father’s Diet - Adrian Nathan West
Material - Camille Bordas (June 2024 Release)
Desert Island Books
The Man Without Qualities - Musil
Collected Stories - Barry Hannah
Ulysses - Joyce
Collected Stories - Issac Babel
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Jacob and his Brothers - Thomas Mann
Bernhard - Extinction
Paul Beaty - The Sellout
Find Courtenay @
https://courtenayscorner.com/
http://patreon.com/courtenaywrites
Substack
https://themaplemoon.substack.com
X @courtenaywrites
Instagram themaltesereader
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https://theredearthproject.org/
Get the book from :
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Gateway books
The Wretched of the Earth - Franz Fanon
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Human Condition - Hannah Arendt
The Brothers Kamarazov
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
A Lover's Discourse - Roland Barthes
Influential as a writer
Confabulations - John Berger
The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
Kindred - Octavia Butler
The Literature Machine - Italo Calvino
Anne Carson
The Boxman - Kobo Abe
The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Camera Lucida - Roland Barthes
Derek Walcott
Negrophobia - Darius James
Denis Johnson - Jesus' sonDisgrace - JM Coetzee
Currently reading:
The Black Technical Object - Ramon Amaro
MACUNAÍMA: THE HERO WITH NO CHARACTER, BY MÁRIO DE ANDRADE
Nomenclature: New and Collected PoemsBook by Dionne Brand
The Visitors by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Terra Amata by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Thanks to Jen Craig and to Seth over at WASTE Mailing list for appearing on this episode.
Jen is on Instagram
@absurdenticements
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Seth is everywhere
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The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach
Order from One World V
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737057/the-golem-of-brooklyn-by-adam-mansbach/
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Soundtrack by @defcee
https://open.spotify.com/album/10RHdG5gi6jWhi1qAD7cFK?si=9P1RMU4tRVaRTvAmBN-Hgw\
Gateway books
The Pushcart War - Jean Merrill
Treasure Island
Current reads
Lone Women - Victor Lavalle
When Crack Was King - Donovan Ramsey
The Talmud
Desert Island Books
2666 - Robert Bolaño
Rule of the Bone - Russel Banks
Subway Art - Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper
@mf.novelist
Buy the book from
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Gateway books /authors
Carson McCullers
Tenesse Williams
Truman Capote
Patricia Highsmith
Ulysses
Current reads
The Crying Room - Gretchen Shrim
Gregory Day - Bell of the World
Desert Island Books
Ulysses
In Search of Lost Time
Carpentaria - Alexis Wright
Mavis Gallant - Short stories
Joan Didion
Diane Arbus - Photography
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BUY PARADISE ESTATE FROM
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https://www.annafunder.com/
@AnnaFunder
Buy Wifedom here :
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/wifedom-9780143787112
Chad Post
@chadwpost
http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/
Two Month Review Podcast
http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/category/two-month-review/
https://www.openletterbooks.org/
Chad Post Musican
https://www.chadpostmusic.com/
Nefando is out on October 31st - Pre-order here
https://coffeehousepress.org/products/nefando
https://sarahkbooker.com/
@sarahkbooker
Gateway books
On The Road - Kerouac
Lolita - Nabokov
Boquitas pintadas; - Manuel Puig
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez
Current Reads
The Possessed - Elif Batuman
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Yuri Herrera - Signs Preceding the End of the World
Yoko Tawada - Scattered all over the Earth
Desert Island Books
Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli
Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez
Yuri Herrera - Signs Preceding the End of the World
Girl at War / True Biz - Sarah Novic
Fiebre Tropical - Julián Delgado Lopera
https://www.crowsnestbooks.com/product/the-supply-chain/
http://aaronjschneider.weebly.com/
https://www.thetemzreview.com/
Gateway books
How to Quiet a Vampire - Borislav Pekić
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810117204/how-to-quiet-a-vampire/
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter - Herta Müller
The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
Alice Munro
Mario Vargas Llosa
Current reads
South Babak Laghomi
Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys - Aaron Tucker
Falling Hour Geoffrey Morrison
Desert Island Books
Who Do You Think you Are - Alice Munro
Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter - Herta Müller
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender - Dubravka Ugrešić
War at the End of the World - Mario Vargas Llosa
To the Lighthouse / Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf
Song of The Lark - Willa Cather
Lizzie Davis
lizzie_davis_
https://lizziedavis.com/
Buy The Devil of the Provinces here :
https://coffeehousepress.org/collections/fiction/products/the-devil-of-the-provinces
Gateway books
Poets including :
Claudia Rankin
Forrest Gander
Frank O'Hara
Letter to a Woman in Paris - Julio Cortazar short story
Ariana Harwicz - Die My Love
Sweet Days of Discipline - Fleur Jaeggy
Current reads / Looking forward to
Empty Houses - Brenda Navaro
Elaine Vilar Madruga - Tyranny of Flies Translated by Kevin Gerry Dunn
Desert Island Books
The Nature Book - Tom Comitta
The Illyad
Mary Ruefle - Madness, Rack and Honey
The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You - by Frank Stanford
Deepstep Come Shining - C.D. Wright
Sunnyside
https://www.jackhoughteling.com/
Gateway books / writers
- Elliot and Joyce
- John Ashbury
- William Falkner
- Susan Sontag
- William Gaddis
- E.L Doctorow
Current reads, recently enjoyed, looking forward to
- Flann O’Brian - An Béal Bocht - The Poor Mouth
- Hind’s Kidnapp - Joseph McElroy
- Mason and Dixon - Pynchon
Desert Island Books
J. M. Coetzee - Foe
Helen DeWitt - Last Samurai
The Breaks of the Game - David Halberstam
Lorenzo in Taos - Mabel Dodge Luhan
Saul Bellow - Seize The Day
Billy Bud - Herman Melville
Frank Santo
Franksanto.net
@FrankSanto13
Buy The Birthparents here
http://www.tortoisebooks.com/
Gateway books
Pride and Prejudice
Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
Currently reading/looking forward to/recently enjoyed
Victim - Andrew Boryga out from Double Day books in March 2024.
Broken Bottles - Anthony Koranda
God, Human, Animal, Machine - Meghan O’Gieblyn
Desert Island Books
Catch-22 - Heller
One-Hundred Years of Solitude - GGM
The Quiet American - Greene
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Flashman Series
Sommerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage
Brave New World - Huxley
Milan Kundera - The Joke
Ismael Reed - Mumbo Jumbo
Thomas Bernhard - Extinction
Jeff Bursey
https://jeffbursey.ca/
Get Unidentified Man At Edge of Photo here ;
https://coronasamizdat.com/index.php?id_product=49&rewrite=unidentified-man-at-left-of-photo-by-jeff-bursey&controller=product
Gateway books
How and Why book series
The Shadow, The Spider
Groucho Marx books
John Dos Passos - The Big Money
Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Black Spring
Hedda Gabler - Ibsen
William Gaddis - The Recognitions
Blaise Cendrars - Moravagine and Memoirs
Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle
Mervyn Peake - Gormanghast Trilogy
Wyndham Lewis - Apes of God
Currently Reading/Looking forward
Entangled Life - Merlin Sheldrake
Colin Thubron books
Spark - Timothy J. Jorgensen
Richard Lemm - Imagined Truths
Desert Island Books
My Struggle Book 1 - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Blaise Cendrars - Moravagine/Dan Yack
The Recognitions/JR - William Gaddis
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Lee. D. Thomson - A Pastoral
John Cooper Powys - A Glastonbury Romance
Bahá'í prayer book.
https://www.babaklakghomi.com/
Buy South from Dundern Press
https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459750814-south
Gateway books
John Christopher - Tripod series
The Baron In The Trees - Calvino
When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
Kafka - The Castle
2666 - Bolaño
Beckett - Trilogy
60 Stories - Donald Barthelme
Wittgenstein’s Mistress - David Markson
Ice - Anna Kavan
Current reads /looking forward to
Solenoid - Marcea Cartarescu
To The Lighthouse - Woolf
The Beetle Leg - John Hawkes
Jon Fosse - The New Name
The Woman Who Lived Among the Cannibals - Robert Kloss
The Illiterate - Agota Kristoff
Begat who Begat who Begat - Marcus Pactor
Desert Island Books
Life A User’s Manual - Perec
Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Book - Ken Sparling
Bob or a Man on Boats - Peter Markus
In The Blind - Eugene Marten
Ava Carole Maso
Selected stories - Walser
Rose Mellie Rose Marie Redonnet
Stories in Another Language - Yannick Murphy
Frank Wynne
https://www.terribleman.com/
Buy The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild here in the US
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And here in UK
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Gateway books
Edmund White - A Boys Own Story
Current reads /looking forward to
Jennifer Croft - The Extinction of Irena Rey (2024)
Desert Island books
Ridley Walker - Russel Hoban
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - João Guimarães Rosa
Ahmadou Kourouma - Sons of Independence
The Iliad
Christopher Logue - War Music
Tolkien - The Silmarillion
Nicola Barker - Darkmans
Suspects - David Thomson
Shakespeare - Collected works
JR - Gaddis
Frank Wynne Part 1
https://www.terribleman.com/
Full show notes will be included with part 2.
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Katie Whittemore
@mkwhittemore X
katie.whittemore1 Instagram
Buy Not Even The Dead by Juan Gómez Bárcena
From Open Letter
https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/not-even-the-dead
Gateway books
The Secret Garden
The Little House on The Prairie
Anne of Green Gables
Caddie Woodlawn
Jean Craighead George
Watership Down
Jane Gardam
Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Rodrigo Fresan
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
Immortality - Kundera
Sarah Waters
Kate Atkinson
Current reads
A Ghost in the Throat - Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Desert Island books
2666 - Bolaño
Watership Down -Richard Adams
Immortality - Kundera
Pip Adam
https://www.pipadam.com/
Buy Audition from
https://giramondopublishing.com/authors/pip-adam/
or
https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/audition/
or
https://peninsulapress.co.uk/products/audition
Pip's Substack/podcast
https://betteroffread.substack.com/
Gateway books
Jackie Collins books
S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders
Wuthering Heights
Frankenstein
Bae Suah - Nowhere to Be Found
Current Reads
Dawn Hounds - Sascha Stronach
Turncoat - Tīhema Baker
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility - Isabel Waidner
Lioness - Emily Perkins
Animal Joy - Nuar Alsadir
Desert Island Books
Frankenstein
Nowhere to be Found - Bae Suah
Confessions of the Fox - Jordy Rosenberg
Bad Behaviour - Mary Gatskill
Watchmen - Alan Moore
Love and Rockets - Hernandez Brothers
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
End of Days - Jenny Erpenbeck
Cesar Aira - Ghosts
Douglas Suttle
https://www.fumdestampa.com/
Buy Summa Kaotica here
https://www.fumdestampa.com/shop/p/summa-kaotica
Gateway books
Homer
Beowulf
The Seafarer
The Wanderer
The Ruin
Dream of the Rood
Lord of the Rings
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Orwell - Homage to Catalonia
Current Reads /Looking Forward to
Dictionary of Symbols -
Septology - Jon Fosse
Desert Island books
Seamus Heaney - Beowulf
Orkneyinga saga
Homage to Catalonia - Orwell
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Tractatus - Wittgenstein
The Thin Red Line - James Jones
Collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Wake - Paul Kingsnorth
Eugen Bacon
https://eugenbacon.com/
@EugenBacon Twitter
Buy Serengotti here ;
https://transitlounge.com.au/shop/serengotti/
Gateway books / authors
Toni Morrison
Octavia Butler
Peter Temple
Current reads
Paul Dalgarno - Country of Eternal Light
Angela Slater - The Bone Lantern
Desert Island books
Toni Morrison
Anthony Doer - All The Light We Cannot See / Cloud Cuckoo land
Michael Ondaatje - Divisadero
Bonus Episode with K Hank Jost !
http://khankjost.com/
https://commonwelljournal.com/
https://whiskeytit.com/product/a-common-well-journal/
Lee Klein
https://www.litfunforever.com/about/
@leeklein0 twitter
@lee.klein_ Instagram
Buy Chotic Good here:
@saggingmeniscus
https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/chaotic_good/
Gateway Books
Peter Pan. Where the Wild Things Are. The Big Book of Jokes and Riddles
Black Stallion series. D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths. Gary Gygax (D&D)
Judy Blume’s Forever
Narnia/LOTRs (competitively read)
Sherlock Holmes
The Bounty Trilogy (Mutiny on the Bounty)
Count of Monte Cristo
Gatsby, Prufrock, The Wasteland
Borges (in Spanish)
Crime and Punishment (2x)
Narcissus and Goldmund
Steppenwolf, Demian, Siddhartha, Journey to the East
Kafka stories
Kerouac (Subterraneans, Dharma Bums, Big Sur)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, The Doors of Perception, Island
Another Roadside Attraction and Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five, Cat’s Cradle, Deadeye Dick)
The Crying of Lot 49
Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Stories by Terry Southern
The Beat Reader – Burroughs, Corso, Ginsberg >> Blake
Beloved
Light in August
See Under: Love (Grossman -> Bruno Schulz)
Maus (graphic novels, Raw vols 1 and 2, Richard McGuire, Here)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog/Adventures in the Skin Trade (Dylan Thomas)
The Tin Drum, A Personal Matter, The Box Man, Carver, Steinbeck short novels, Hamsun (Hunger), Cheever stories, Auster, Beckett, Kafka, Handke, Artaud, Barthelme, Maupassant, Chekhov, TC Boyle, Philip Roth, Sontag essays, Ulysses, Moby Dick
DFW essays, Mark Leyner, DeLillo, Moody, The Recognitions, George Saunders, Pnin, The Last Samurai, Bernhard, Sebald, Gogol stories, Salinger stories, Geoff Dyer, Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials)
War and Peace, Proust, Musil, Mann, Hamsun
Bolano (Between Parentheses)
Knausgaard, Rachel Cusk, Houellebecq, Enard, Gracq, Perec, Zweig, Grace Paley, Hrabal, Aira, The Waves
Currently reading
Ute Av Verden, Knausgaard (in Norsk) Reader’s Block, Markson
Henri Cartier-Bresson interviews Ubik, Philip K. Dick Looking forward to Middlemarch, Trollope The Wolves of Eternity, KOK MJ Nicholls stories Steinbeck (shorter novels) The rest of Hrabal in English (four books) Cormac McCarthy (his first four books) BTZ-inspired purchases: Monument Maker (David Keenan), The Salt Line (Shimoni), The Logos (Mark de Silva), Traveler of the Century and How to Travel Without Seeing (Andreas Neuman), The Kindly Ones (Littel), Too Much Life (Lispecter), Kafka Diaries
Recently read All of Us Together in the End, Matthew Vollmer Bang Bang Crash, Nic Brown All Dag Solstad in English (Novel 11, Book 18) All Tomas Espedal in English (Love, Tramp) I Served the King of England, Hrabal The Belan Deck, Matt Bucher
Annie Ernaux (Happening, A Man’s Place, I Remain in Darkness) Philip Roth (Zuckerman Unbound, Patrimony, The Facts, The Counterlife) The Magus, John Fowles
Desert Island Books
The Birds, Tarjei Vesaas (Archipelago)
Weight of the World, Handke
A Time to Live and a Time to Die, Erich Maria Remarque
Garden, Ashes, Danilo Kis
A Balcony in the Forest, Julien Gracq
A Musical Offering, Luis Sagasti (Charco, Fionn Petch)
Atomik Aztex, Sesshu Foster (Grove Press)
Amazons, Cleo Birdwell (DeLillo)
A Time for Everything, KOK (Archipelago)
Joseph and His Brothers, Thomas Mann (John E. Woods translation; Modern Library)
Aaron Jacobs
Time Will Break The World
https://www.aaronjacobswrites.com/time-will-break-the-world-1
Gateway books / Authors
John Bellairs
Edith Wharton - Age of Innocence
Private Parts - Howard Stern
Where I am Calling From - Raymond Carver
Portnoy’s Complaint - Roth
Henderson The Rain King - Bellow
A Fan’s Notes - Frederick Exley
Current Reads/Looking forward to
White Cat Black Dog - Kelly Link
Foster - Claire Keegan
Tender Is he Flesh - Augustina Bazterrica
The Passenger /Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy
Hernan Diaz- Trust
Desert Island Books
Ulysses - Joyce
Underworld - Don DeLillo
Song Of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Homeland - Sam Lipsyte
Complete Garielle Lutz
InnerTube - Hob Broun
Joy Williams - Quick and the Dead
Palefire - Nabokov
Jen Craig
Buy Wall from
https://puncherandwattmann.com/product/wall/
https://zerogrampress.com/2023/01/11/wall/
Currently reading/Looking forward to
Annie Ernaux
Vigdis Hjorth
Stendhal
Country of Eternal Light - Paul Dalgarno
Angela O’Keefe - The Sitter
https://www.thomaslegendre.com/
Spring Fever is out now through Valley Press
https://www.valleypressuk.com/shop/p/spring-fever
Gateway Books
Sherlock Holmes
Martin Amis - London Fields
Annie Proulx - Shipping News
Don DeLillo
Cormac McCarthy
Nabokov
Edith Wharton
Borges
Current Reads/ recently enjoyed/ looking Forward to
Burntcoat - Sarah Hall
Patricia Dunker- Sophie and the Civil
Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick
Colson Whitehead - Crook Manifesto
Alan Warner - Nothing Left to Fear From Hell
Elizabeth Lindsay Rogers - The Tilt Torn Away From The Seasons
Hoodwitch - Faylita Hicks
Headless John The Baptist Hitchhiking - C. T. Salazar
Desert Island Books
Middlemarch - George Elliot
Jayne Eyre - Brontë
Collected Borges
London Field/House of Meetings - Martin Amis
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Tristrom Shandy - Sterne
Michael Gerard
@39mgerard93
Gateway Books
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
Tao Lin Taipei
Current reads / Looking forward to
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Fantastic Fictions - Sam Pink
Shane Jesse Christmas - new book
Desert Island Books
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
E.E. Cummings - Collected works
Joel Warner - The Curse of the Marquis de Sade
https://www.joelwarner.com/
www.levernews.com
Gateway books
Jonathan Harr - The Lost Painting
Current reads / recently enjoyed or looking forward
The Act of Oblivion - Robert Harris
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Gran
Desert Island Books
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
The Adventures of Cavilier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Middlesex - Jeffery Eugenides
Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
Priscilla Gilman
https://www.priscillagilman.com/
@priscillagilman
@priscilla.gilman Instagram
Gateway books
The Phantom Tollboth - Norton Juster
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Betsy- Tacy books
Paddington - Michael Bond
Charlotte’s Web
Song of Solomon
Wuthering Heights
Great Expectations
Current reads/recently enjoyed/ looking forward to
Lone Women - Victor LaValle
Ann Beattie - new collection - Onlookers
Andrew Porter - The Disappeared
The Netanyahu’s - Josh Cohen
Desert Island Books
Norton Anthology of poetry
Collected Poetry - Wordsworth
Omnibus Jane Austen
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Great Expectations - Dickens
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Riverside Shakespeare
Alice Jolly
http://alicejolly.com/wp/
@JollyAlice
https://unbound.com/authors/alice-jolly
Gateway books /authors
Graham Greene
E.M. Forster
Current reads / recently enjoyed/ looking forward to
House of Doors - Tan Tan Eng
North Woods - Daniel Mason (Sept)
Desert Island Books:
The Chosen - Elizabeth Lowry
Poems of R.S. Thomas
Return of The Soldier - Rebecca West
Light Years - James Salter
Shirley Hazard - The Great Fire
Omensetter’s Luck - William H Gass
Last Exit to Brooklyn - Robert Selby Jr
John Wray
http://www.johnwray.net/
Buy Gone to The Wolves here
https://bookshop.org/p/books/gone-to-the-wolves-john-wray/18789111?ean=9780374603335
Gateway books
Lord of the Rings
Alice in Wonderland / Through The Looking Glass
Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg - Ohio
William S Burroughs
Current reads /looking forward to
Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
I’m With The Band - Pamela Des Barres
La Capital - The Biography of Mexico City - Jonathan Kandell
Biography of X - Catherine Lacy
Trust - Hernan Diaz
Desert Island books
Alice and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Islandia - Austin Tappan Wright
Collected Short Stories of Anton Chekov
The Palm Wine Drinkard - Amos Tutuola
Ross MacDonald - Collection
Lincoln in The Bardo - George Saunders
Shirley Hazzard - The Transit of Venus
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
I Am Ozzy - Ozzie Osbourne
Paul Dalgarno
https://www.pauldalgarno.com/
@PaulDalgarno Twitter
@narrativefriction Instagram
Gateway books
Trainspotting
Catch 22
How Late it Was, How Late - James Kelman
The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway
Also mentioned - Jenni Fagan
Current reads / Looking forward to
Dress Rehearsals - Madison Godfrey
Here be Monsters - Richard King
Wall - Jen Craig
Desert Island Books
Don Quixote
Hopscotch - Julio Cortazár
Loitering With Intent - Muriel Spark
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
Too Much Lip - Melissa Lucashenko
Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
Wuthering Heights - Brontë
Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
Seth Rogoff
https://sethrogoff.com/
Buy his book here
https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/kirschbaum_lectures/
Gateway books
Gore Vidal
Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf
Heinrich von Kleist - Michael Kohlhaas
James Baldwin - Another Country
To The Light House - Virginia Woolf
Danilo Kiš - Garden Ashes
Current reads
- Adam Ehrlich Sachs - Organs of Sense
- Heavy: An American Memoir - Kiese Laymon
- Faces in The Crowd - Valeria Luiselli
- Mr Samler’s Planet - Bellow
- Three Days Before the Shooting - Ellison
Desert island books
Kafka - The Castle
Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight
Seymour an Introduction - J.D Salinger
Waiting for The Barbarians - Coetzee
The Mediterranean - Fernand Braudel
The Bible - God (tbc)
Garin Cycholl
@gcycho1
Buy Rx here https://atmospherepress.com/books/rx-by-garin-cycholl/
Gateway books
Maximus Poems - Charles Olsen
Barry Hannah - Ray and Airships
Laird Hunt - Indiana Indiana, Zorrie
Ben Metcalf - Against The Country
Mike Davis - City of Quartz
Current reads
Percival Everett - The Trees
Hanif Abdurraqib - A Little Devil in America
Solenoid - Cartarescu
Alexander Hammond - The World and All That it Holds
Dan Egan - The History of Phosphorus
Colson Whitehead - Crook Manifesto
Desert island Books
Poe Stories
Brothers K - Dostoyevsky
The Recognitions - Gaddis
Inherent Vice - Pynchon
Suttree - McCarthy
Cecilia Vicuña - poems
The Plains - Murnane
Woolf - The Waves
M.F.K Fisher - The Gastronomical Me
Ed Roberson - To See the Earth Before The End of The World
Mickle Maher - The Stangerer
Maxwell Olin Massa
https://www.maxwellolinmassa.com/
Buy House of Apollo here
https://whiskeytit.com/product/house-of-apollo/
Outlook English program links
- Outlook English explores the dairy farm: https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTMxNzM2MjQ=.html
- Outlook English experiences Beijing culture: https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTMxMTczOTY=.html
- Outlook English welcomes the Beijing Olympics (ep. 1): https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzEyNzA0NzY=.html
- Outlook English welcomes the Beijing Olympics (ep. 2): https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzEyNjk1MDg=.html
- Outlook English welcomes the Beijing Olympics (ep. 3): https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzEyNjgyNjA=.html
- Outlook English welcomes the Beijing Olympics (ep. 4): https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzEyOTIzNTI=.html
- Outlook English welcomes the Beijing Olympics (ep. 5): https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzEyNzAwNzY=.html
Gateway Books
- Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast
- Walter M. Miller JR - A Canticle for Leibowitz
Current reads
- The Iliad
Desert Island Books
- Poetry Han Shan
- The Iliad
- Diary of Samuel Pepys
Chris Andrews
Currently working on Liliana Colanzi - You Glow in The Dark
Six novel César Aira collection
Gateway books / Writers
Bran the Bronze Smith - J Reason
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Jacobs Ladder -Denise Levertov
Between The Acts - Virginia Woolf
Monkey Grip - Helen Garner
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
Labyrinths - Borges
Current reads / Recently read / Looking forward to
Holly Isemonger - Greatest Hits (Vagabond Press)
The Sun Walks Down - Fiona McFarlane
Chilean Poet - Alejandro Zambra
Fugue States - Pasha Malla
A Shock - Keith Ridgway
Upcoming
The Plains - Frederico Falco - upcoming translation by Jennifer Croft
New Translation of Loin de Rueil by Raymond Queneau by Chris Clarke NYRB
Whatever’s Forbidden the Wise - Anthony Madrid
Desert Island books
Shahnameh - The Book of Kings
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
Raymond Queneau - Odile
Manuel Puig - An Eternal Curse on The Reader of These Pages
The Means of Escape - Penelope Fitzgerald
Collected Poems - Gwen Harwood
Vanilla Wine - Geoff Cochrane
Crow Cottage - Emma Lew
Borges - Adolfo Bioy Casares
Max Lawton
@maxdaniellawton
Buy Miquel de Palol’s The Garden of Seven Twilights from
https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/the-garden-of-seven-twilights
Upcoming projects and publications
Upcoming 2023 - New Sorokin short stories, Blue Laird.
Schattenfroh - Michael Lenz (Sample)
See
https://theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/schattenfroh-by-michael-lentz/
Songs of Chaos - Antonio Moresco (sample)
See
https://theuntranslated.wordpress.com/tag/songs-of-chaos/
Oğuz Atay - Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected)
Current read and recommendations
Out of The World / Wolves from The Forest of Eternity - Knausgaard
The Shards - BEE
Hakan Günday - books
Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger/Stella Maris
The Salt Line by Youval Shimoni
Translated by Michael Sharp
Available through https://www.crowsnestbooks.com/product/saltline/
Philip Hollander
https://nes.princeton.edu/people/philip-hollander
Gateway books /authors
Yoseph Chaim Brenner
Currently reading
The Salt Line and The Room by Youval Shimoni
Looking forward to - Through the Transparent Floor - Youval Shimoni
Desert island books
- Even-Shoshan Dictionary
- Shai Agnon - Only Yesteryear and Simple Story
- ימי צקלג, - S. Yizhar (Days of Ziklag)
- Yaakov Shabtai - זכרון דברים - (Past Continuous)
- William Falkner - Light in August
A.V. Marraccini
https://avmarraccini.com/
@saintsoftness
Buy We The Parasites here:
https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/we-the-parasites
Gateway books /authors
- Susan Sontag
- Ursula Le Guin
- The Iliad
Current Reads
- Esther Kinsky - Rombo - Trans - Caroline Schmidt
- Marco Polo’s Travels - Trans - Nigel Cliff
Desert Island/ Windowless data centre books
- Leob Classical Library editions
Richard Milward
https://www.richardmilward.com/
Buy Man-Eating Typewriter here:
https://www.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/titles/richard-milward/man-eating-typewriter/9781399602013/
Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3aJgqfOTyIeA491ag7NhAr?si=058bc75e876941fe
Gateway books / writers
Alan Warner - Morvern Callar
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
Richard Brautigan
Kerouac
Hunter. S. Thomson - Naked Lunch
Nadia - André Breton
Nabokov
Pynchon
Current reads / recently enjoyed / looking forward
Charles Bukowski - Post Office
New American Poetry - 1945-1960
Ali Millar - The Last Days
Interviews with Francis Bacon - David Sylvester
Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History - Derek Sayer
Alex Danchev - Magritte - A Life
Desert Island Books
Lolita and Pale Fire - Nabokov
The Essential Ginsburg
Gravity’s Rainbow
Monument Maker - David Keenan
Mark Polizzotti - The Life of André Breton
Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 - Georges Bataille
Patrick DeWitt- The Sisters Brothers
The Giro Playboy - Michael Smith
Christopher Bollen - The Lost Americans
https://www.christopherbollen.com/
@christbollen instagram
@christobollen twitter
Gateway books/authors
Agatha Christie
Kurt Vonnegut
Sylvia Plath
Joan Didion
Current reads/ recently enjoyed/ looking forward to
Hernán Díaz - Trust
Fruiting Bodies: Stories - Kathryn Harlan
If I Survive You - Jonathan Escoffery
Desert Island Books
Graeme Green - The Quite American, The Comedians, Ministry of Fear
The Executioners Song - Norman Mailer
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
Allan Hollinghurst - The Folding Star
Agatha Christie - Then There Where None, Death on the Nile, A Murder is Announced
Joan Didion - After Henry
Andrés Neuman
Buy Bariloche here:
https://www.openletterbooks.org/collections/andres-neuman
Currently reading / recently enjoyed /looking
The Care Manifesto
Las malas -Camila Sosa Villada
Armonía Somers
Mariana Enriquez - Alguien camina sobre tu tumba
Delphine Horvilleur - Living With Our Dead Ones
Partes de guerra - Jorge Volpi
Elena Garro - Los recuerdos del porvenir / Recollections of Things to Come
Yuri Herrera - Ten Planets
Oliver Mol
@trainlord
Buy the book here :
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/train-lord-9780241525074
ALSO BUY GRIMMISH
Gateway books
Henry Sugar - Roald Dahl
Tintin - Hergé.
Current reads / recently enjoyed / looking forward to
A Fan’s Notes - Frederick Exley
Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles
Willa Cather - My Ántonia
Robbie Arnott - Limberlost
Constance Debré - Play Boy
Cold Enough For Snow - Jessica Au
Mariana Enriquez - Our Share of Night
Desert Island Books
Alejandro Zambra - Bonsai
Train Dreams / Angels - Denis Johnson
Tove Jansson - The Summer Book
Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky
Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen
Battles in the Desert - José Emilio Pacheco
The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
Natasha Wimmer
https://natashawimmer.com/
Buy Voyager by Nona Fernández here
https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/voyager
Currently working on:
Falsa Guerra — Carlos Manuel Álvarez
Álvaro Enrigue - You Dreamed of Empires
Gateway books
Nada - Carmen Laforet
Claudine novels - Colette
Norman Rush - Mating
Willa Cather - Song of the Lark
V.S. Naipaul - A House for Mr Biswas
Ben Lerner - Leaving the Atocha Station
Current reads /recently enjoyed
Enrique Krauze - Spinoza en el Parque México
Recollections of things to come - Elena Garro
Brenda Lozano - Loop
Catherine Lacey - Pew
Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez
Chilean Poet - Alejandro Zambra
The Body Where I Was Born - Guadalupe Nettel
Tomb Song: A Novel - Julián Herbert
Desert Island Books
To The Light House - Virginia Woolf
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
The Complete Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
Henry James - The Golden Bowl
Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
Javier Mariás - Your Face Tomorrow series
Buy Roar here:
https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781956763263/roar/
Bruce Wagner
https://www.brucewagner.la
Gateway books /authors
Jean Genet
Raymond Radiguet
Henry Miller
Hubert Selby Jr- The Room
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
Dickens
Current reads /recently enjoyed
Lincoln in the Bardo
Cause Unknown - The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths - Ed Dowd
Desert Island book
The Conference of the Birds
DBC Pierre
http://www.dbcpierre.com
Buy Big Snake Little Snake here :
https://www.cheeriopublishing.com
Gateway books
Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall
On The Road - Kerouac
Gore Vidal - Duluth
Current reads/recently enjoyed/looking forward to
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Transylvania Trilogy - Miklós Bánffy
Grey Seas Under - Farley Mowat
Desert Island Books
Papillon - Henri Charrière
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay
Lila- Robert. M. Pirsig
The Complete Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova - Translated by Arthur Machen
Kate Evans
@HistoryGirlKate
@RadioNational
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-bookshelf
Gateway books
Ethel Turner - Seven Little Australians
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Michale Ondaatje - The English Patient / In the Skin of a Lion
Kerry Hume - The Bone People
Current Reads / recently enjoyed /looking forward to
Audrey Magee - The Colony
Age of Vice - Deepdi Kapoor
A Day of Fallen Night - Samantha Shannon
Sebastian Barry - Old God’s Time
Salman Rushdie - Victory City
Laura McPhee Brown - Little Plum
Alexis Wright - Praiseworthy
Melissa Lucahshenko’ - Edenglassie
Margaret Atwood - Old Babes in the Wood.
Mai Phan Que Nguyen - Dustchild
River Sing Me Home - Eleanor Shearer
Kevin Jared Hosein - Hungry Ghosts
Arinze Ifeakandu - God's Children Are Little Broken Things
Becky Manawatu - Auē
Desert Island books
In the Skin of A Lion - Michale Ondaatje
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Pat Barker - Regeneration Trilogy
Peter Carey - Illywacker
Fiona McFarlane - A Son Looked down
A.S. Byatt - Possession
Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
Lousie Erdich - LaRose
Mick Herron - Slow Horses Series
Robbie Arnot - The Rain Heron
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 Highsmith
Dawn Raffel
https://www.dawnraffel.com
https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/boundless_as_the_sky/
Gateway books -
War and Peace
Grace Paley - Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
I Stand Here Ironing - Tillie Olsen
Flannery O’Connor
North American Review
The Quarterly
Current reads /Looking forward to
The Lighted Burrow: A Sanatorium Journal - Max Blecher
The Radezkey March - Joseph Roth
Moby Dick
The Jazz Palace - Mary Morris
The Kirschbaum Lectures - Seth Rogoff
Desert Island books
War and Peace
Metamorphosis - Ovid
A River Runs Through it - Norman Maclean
Merve Emre
https://www.merveemre.com
@mervatim
Gateway books
Matilda - Roald Dahl
If On A Winters Night A Traveller - Calvino
A Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Portrait of a Lady
Current reads /Looking forward to
Orlando Furioso - Ludovico Ariosto
Quaderno proibito (The Forbidden Notebook) - Alba de Céspedes - Translated by Ann Goldstein
Catherine Lacey - The Biography of X
White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin - Michael W. Clune
Desert Island books
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
Middlemarch - George Elliot
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - Erich Auerbach
Ulysses - Joyce
Collected Works of Beckett
Collected Diaries of Virginia Woolf
Translations by Anne Carson (With Greek)
The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt
Septology - Jon Fosse
The Annotated Arabian Nights - New translation by Yasmine Seale
Ben Harnett
Get The Happy Valley here:
https://www.thehappyvalleynovel.com
https://www.benjaminharnett.com
Gateway books
Middlemarch
Moby Dick
Current reads
Nixon agonistes - Garry Wills
Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy - Elizabeth Popp Berman
Alec Guinness - Memoirs
We Have Never Been Modern - Bruno Latour
The Greeks and the irrational - E. R. Dodds
The Evening Hero - Marie Myong-Ok Lee
The Logic of Practice - Pierre Bourdieu
Iris Murdoch
Desert Island Books
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
Capital and Ideology - Thomas Piketty
Jane Austen - Complete works
Moby Dick
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
Brendan Riley
https://brendanriley2020.wordpress.com/about/
Twitter @BPRileyCTSp2Eng
Buy Antagony here https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/antagony
Gateway Books
Ovid
D.H. Lawerence
Aldus Huxley
Lauren Eisley
Peter Matthiessen
Michael Ondaatje
John McPhee
Gary Synder
Robinson Jeffers
Current Reads
London Fields - Martin Amis
Iain Sinclair - Down River
The Five - Hallie Rubenhold
Gary Snyder - The Great Clod
NeuroTribes - Steve Silberman
Literary Translations and the Making of Originals - Karen Emmerich
Desert Island Books
Collected Shakespeare
The Metamorphoses - Ovid
Moby Dick
Gary Snyders- Mountains and Rivers Without End
Collected Yates
Collected Borges
Cities of The Red Night - Burroughs
Absolom Absolom -
Dickens - Our Mutual Friend.
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
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
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
Jerry Stahl
@somejerrystahl
Buy Nein, Nein, Nein from:
https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/nein-nein-nein/
Gateway books
Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr
Nathanael West- Miss Lonelyhearts
Bruce J Friedman - Stern, A Mother’s Kisses
Samuel Beckett- Watt
Celine - Death on the Instalment Plan
Roth - Portnoy’s Complaint
Current reads
Jonathan Ames - The Wheel of Doll
Bruce Wagner - Roar
Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Roth - Opperation Shylock
James Ellroy - The Storm /American Tabloid
Ada - Nabokov
Flannery O’Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find
Gravity’s Rainbow - Pynchon
Witz - Joshua Cohen
Nick Tosches - Dino
Desert Island Books
Weegee - Naked City
Diane Arbus - Untitled
Dante - The Inferno
Ulysses - Joyce
The Bothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
Gravity’s Rainbow - Pynchon
DFW - Collected works
Patrick McCabe
Buy Pougemahone here https://unbound.com/books/poguemahone/
Gateway books
Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan
First Love Last Rites - Ian McEwan
The Ginger Man - J.P. Donleavy
Last Day of Summer - Ian McEwan
Current reads
Clive James - Sentenced to Life
Desert Island Books
The Bible - God ?
Ulysses - Joyce
High Windows - Larkin
Clive James - Sentenced to Life
Shakespeare - Shakespeare ?
Megan McDowell
https://www.meganmcdowelltranslation.com
@meganalimcd twitter
@meganamcdowell Instagram
Buy Our Share of Night here https://granta.com/products/our-share-of-night/
Gateway books
Jane Eyre
Great Expectations
Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe
Little Women
Hopscotch - Cortazar
The Wide Saragasso - Sea Jean Rhys
Bolano - 2666
The Book of Disquiet - Pessoa
Current reads
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
The Friend - Sigrid Nunez
Jawbone - Mónica Ojeda
Desert Island Books
The Neapolitan Novels - Ferrante
Bolano - 2666
Hopscotch - Cortazar
The Book of Disquiet - Pessoa
Necropolis - Santiago Gamboa
Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez
Chilean Poet - Zambra
Fever Dream - Samanta Schweblin
Beloved - Morrison
Louis Paul Boon - Chapel Road
What Belongs to You - Garth Greenwell
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
Ben Slotky
Buy his book from Dalkey
https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/an-evening-of-romantic-lovemaking
Gateway books
Aberration of Starlight - Gilbert Sorrentino
James Ellroy - White Jazz
Kurt Vonnegut
Recently enjoyed
Comac McCarthy - The Passenger
The Tyranny of Algorithms - Miguel Benasayag
Desert Island Books
Aberration of Starlight - Gilbert Sorrentino
Maurizio De Giovanni - Commissario Ricciardi novels
Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir - Norm Macdonald
Thomas Kendall
By the Autodidacts here:
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@TPKendall
Gateway books
Dostoevsky
Yukio Mishima
The Atrocity Exhibition J.G. Ballard
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
Frisk/Try - Denis Cooper
The Book of Lies/Notebook trilogy - Ágota Kristóf
My Teacher is an Alien - Bruce Coville
Current reads
Olga Ravin - The Employees
Fernanda Melchor - Hurricane Season
Twilight Zone - Nona Fernández
What Are You - Lindsay Lerman
The New House - David Leo Rice
I Wished - Denis Cooper
Desert Island Book
The Book of Lies/Notebook trilogy - Ágota Kristóf
Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
The Recognitions - Gaddis
The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima
I Wished - Denis Cooper
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
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
Sara Lippmann
https://www.saralippmann.com
@saralippmann
Buy Lech here;
http://www.tortoisebooks.com
Gateway books
Maurice Sendak - In The Night Kitchen
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble - William Steig
Tell Me a Mitzi - Lore Segal
Bernard Malamud - Jewbird (short story
Goodbye Columbus - Philip Roth
Salinger - short stories
Jayne Anne Philips - The Black Tickets
A.M. Holmes -
Richard Yates
Grace Payley
Tilley Olsen
Jerry Stahl - Nein, Nein, Nein
Who By Fire - Matti Friedman
Human - Elisa Albert
Seth Rogoff - Thin Rising Vapours
Peter Orner - Still No Word From You
Desert Island books
Ulysses - Joyce
Magic Mountain - Mann
How to Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan
Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles
The Waves Virginia Woolf
Peter Orner - Am I Alone Here (+all the books he mentions)
Etgar Keret
Kent Haruf - Our Soles (Arseholes) at Night
James Salter
Sabbath’s Theatre - Roth
Marjorie Morningstar - Herman Wouk
Nicole Krauss- History of Love
K Hank Jost
Order Deselections here
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@hank_being_a_better_ape
Listen to Spark Sputter and Die here;
https://linktr.ee/sparksputteranddie
@sparksputteranddie
Gateway books
The Bible
Stephen King
Vonnegut
In The Heart of the Heart of the Country
Current reads
All of Kafka
Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard
Snopes trilogy - William Faulkner
The Iliad
Desert Island Books
The Iliad
Ulysses - Joyce
Moby Dick - Melville
The Recognitions - Gaddis
The Complete Gary Lutz
The Caste - Kafka
In The Heart of the Heart of the Country - William Gass
Dorothy Allison - Bastard Out of Carolina / Cavedweller
Tristrom Shandy - Sterne
Breece D'J Pancake - Short stories
Stream System - Gerald Murnane
Diane Josefowicz
https://www.dianejosefowicz.com
http://necessaryfiction.com
@dianegreco
Buy Ready Set Go here ; https://www.flexiblepub.com/ready-set-oh
Gateway books
Gravity’s Rainbow - Pynchon
Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber
Rikki Durconet - Fountains of Neptune
Current reads
Stories of a Life - Nataliya Meshchaninova (Deep Vellum)
Desert Island Books
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë.
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Andre’ Forget
https://andre-forget.com
@ayforge Twitter
@a.y.forget instagram
Order City of Pigs from https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459749085-in-the-city-of-pigs
Gateway book - The Arthuriad
Current reads
Monica Ali - Brick Lane
Maxim Gorky - The Life of Klim Samgin
Top 10
At Swim Two Birds - Flann O’Brian
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
https://janerawson.com
@frippet
Buy A History of Dreams here
https://booktopia.kh4ffx.net/VyVgj6
Gateway books
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors - Piers Paul Read
Claudius The God - Robert Graves
Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Current reads -
Gentle and Fierce - Vanessa Berry
Twyborn Affair - Patrick White
An immense World - Ed Yong
Looking forward to -
Freya Maske - new book (sequel to a Marvellous Light)
Jessie Cole - new book
Top 10
The Light Years - Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
The Rift - Nina Allen
Dark Palace - Frank Moorhouse
Coming Through Slaughter - Michael Ondaatje
The Swan Book - Alexis Wright
The Captive Prince - C.S. Pact
Rubik - Elizabeth Tan
Aurora - Kim Stanley Robinson
Tender Morsels - Margo Lanagan
Show notes
Eduardo Halfon
@eduardohalfon instagram
https://blpress.org/authors/eduardo-halfon/
Buy Canción through Bellevue Press :
https://blpress.org/?post_type=product&p=5063
Gateway writers
Bolano
Cormac McCarthy
Hemingway
Carver
Cheever
Joyce
Kafka
Chekov
Current reads /looking forward to / rereads
Cormac McCarthy
Bolano
Top shelf
- Savage Detectives - Bolano
- Conversations in the Cathedral - Vargas Llosa
- Augusto Monterosso
- Rodrigo Ray Rosa
- Cormac McCarthy
Marcus Pactor
@MarcusPactor
Order Begat here :
https://www.astrophilpress.com
Gateway books
Vonnegut
A Feast of Snakes - Harry Crews
Carte Blanche
Gerald Murnane
Can Xue
Current reads / Looking forward to
Ezra Maas - Daniel James
The Human Mind - Angela Woodward
Decolonising the Mind - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Can Xue - new novella
Rikki Ducornet - new novella
Lance Olsen - Always Crashing in the Same Car
Top 10
Borges - Collected works
Beckett - Trilogy
Donald Barthelme - Stories
Padgett Powell - The interrogative mood
Kafka - Metamorphosis
Saul Bellow - Mister Sammler’s Planet
In The Lake of The Wood - Tim O’Brian
Gerald Murnane - The Plains
Trieste: A Novel - Daša Drndić
Links for the Untranslated:
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https://www.patreon.com/andreispage
Preorder Solenoid - https://store.deepvellum.org/products/solenoid
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Avner Landes
@AvnerLandes
Buy here
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Gateway books
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
My Life as a Man - Philip Roth
Pictures of Fidelman - Bernard Malamud
Raymond Carver
Donald Antrim
Leonard Michael
Sabbath's Theatre - Roth
The Dick Gibson Show - Stanley Elkin
Frog - Stephen Dixon
Current reads / Recently enjoyed /looking forward to
Bram Presser- Book of Dirt
A Death: Notes of a Suicide - Zalman Shenour Translated by Daniel Kennedy
Javier Marias - The Infatuations, A Heart So White
Helen DeWitt - Lightning Rods
A Public Burning - Robert Coover
Sam Lipsyte - No-one Left to Come Looking For You
Sara Lippmann - Lech
Christian TeBordo
Aaron Hamberger - Hotel Cuba
Top 10
Daniel Deronda - George Elliot
Red Cavalry - Isaac Babel
Dubliners - James Joyce
Passage from Home - Isaac Rosenfeld
Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
Life and Fate - Vasily Grossman
Lindmann - Book by Frederic Raphael
Frederick Exley - A Fan's Notes
Oreo- Fran Ross
Rituals - Novel by Cees Nooteboom
@reversediorama
Buy Industry of Magic and Light here;
https://www.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/titles/david-keenan/industry-of-magic-light/9781399603249/
Adriane Howell
https://www.adrianehowell.com/story
@felinefelttip Instagram
@Adriane__Howell Twitter
Buy Hydra here https://transitlounge.com.au
Gateway books
R.L. Stine - Goosebumbs
Narnia books - Lewis
Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera
Lolita - Nabokov
DBC Pierre - Release the Bats
Current reads
The Sorrow of War - Bảo Ninh
Ru - Kim Thúy
Moon Sugar - Angela Meyer
Annihilate - Houellebecq
Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
The Old Drift - Namwali Serpell
Desert Island Books
Lolita - Nabokov
Ada - Nabokov
The Lover - Marguerite Duras
Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera
Leonard Cohen - Book of Longing
Nicole Kraus (any)
Deborah Levy (any)
Suri Hustvedt (any)
The Sexual life of Catherine M - Catherine Millet
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight - Alexandra Fuller
@ThatSadieJones twitter
@that_sadie_jones Instagram
Buy Amy and Lan here -
https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/215706/sadie-jones
Gateway books
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Currently reading
A Town Called Solace - Mary Lawson
Tim Finch - House of Journalists
Desert Island Books
A Moveable Feast / For Whom The Bell Tolls
If Beale St Could Talk - James Baldwin
All of Shakespeare
All of Elliot
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
Never Let Me Go - Ishiguro
All of Narnia
Americana - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Laura Vogt
Translated by CAROLINE WAIGHT
https://www.heloisepress.com/book/what-concerns-us
Gateway books
Malina - Inneborg Bachmann
Current reads
The Milkman - Anna Burns
Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell - Katherine Angel
Top 10 -
Malina - Inneborg Bachmann
Rachel Cusk - Transit
Maggie Nelson - The Argonauts
Virginia Woolf - A Room of Ones Own
Connie Palmen - Logbuch eines unbarmherzigen Jahres
Tomas Espedal - Against Nature (Imot naturen)
Chris Klaus - I Love Dick
Bernadine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other
Siri Hustvedt - The Blazing World
A Ghost in the Throat - Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Michael Paul Kozlowsky
@MPKozlowsky
https://mpkozlowsky.com
Scarecrow Has a Gun is available here
https://imbrifex.com/book/scarecrow-has-a-gun/
Currently reading
The Unfortunates - B.S. Johnson
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
Hashtag Good Guy with a Gun - Jeff Chon
Finnegan’s Wake - Joyce
Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
The last taxi driver - Lee Durkee
Diary of Anne Frank
Top 10
Something Happened - Joseph Heller
1993 Was A Bad Year - John Fante
A Visit From The Goon Squad - Candy House
Ted Chiang - Exhalation /Story of Your Life
Times Arrow - Martin Amis
Mrs Caliban - Rachel Ingalls
Great Expectations - Dickens
Blood Meridian - McCarthy
Underworld - DeLillo
Infinite Jest - DFW
Adam Levin
https://www.adamlevinadamlevin.com
Buy Mount Chicago here
https://bookshop.org/books/mount-chicago/9780385548243
Gateway Books
Kurt Vonnegut - Harrison Bergeron and Slaughterhouse 5
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
Currently reading /recently enjoyed/ Looking forward to
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
Among the Thugs - Bill Buford
J.G. Ballard - Hello America
Kuput. - Curzio Malaparte (Also The Skin)
Laughter - Henri Bergson
Jesse Ball- Autoportrait
Sam Lipsyte - No One Left To Come Looking For You
Cormac McCarthy - Stella Maris / The Passenger
Desert Island books
Christian TeBordo - The follow up to the Apology
Jesse Ball - Follow up to Autoportrait
Adam Ehrlich Sachs - Follow up to Organs of Sense
Magnetic field - Ron Loewinsohn
Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century -Patrik Ouředník
Follow up to Twenty grand - Rebecca Curtis
Follow up to The People of Paper
Novel by Salvador Plascencia
How to Behave in a Crowd: - Camille Bordas
Gabriel Bump - The New Naturals
Sam Lipsyte - No One Left To Come Looking For You
George Saunders - Liberation Day
Helen DeWitt (next novel)
Cormac McCarthy - Stella Maris / The Passenger
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Blake Butler
https://blakebutler.org
@blakebutler
https://www.apocalypse-party.com/aannex.html
Gateway books
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
Infinite Jest - DFW
Currently reading /Looking forward to/recently enjoyed
Annie Ernaux
Cormac McCarthy - Stella Maris / The Passenger
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Josiah Morgan
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Carte Blanche
Brian Evenson
https://www.brianevenson.com
Denis Cooper
https://denniscooperblog.com
Top 10
Trilogy - Samuel Beckett
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers - Pierre Guyotat
With the Animals - Noelle Revaz
The Recognitions - William Gaddis
Thomas Bernhard - Extinction /Correction
Liveblog - Megan Boyle
https://store.nytyrant.com/products/liveblog-by-megan-boyle
Sutree - Cormac McCarthy
Molina - Ingeborg Bachmann
Matty Markwood
https://www.reddit.com/r/ThomasPynchon/
@TheObliterature
https://linktr.ee/Obliterature
Gateway Books
Vonnegut (all)
White Noise - DeLillo
Borges
Melville - Moby Dick
Don Quixote
Faulkner (novels)
Hemingway
Currently reading
John Barth - Letter
Robert Coover - Pricksongs and Descants
W. Maxwell Prince - One Week in The Library
Looking forward to
Cormac McCarthy - New novels
Richard Powers- Goldbug Variations
The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead
You Bright and Risen Angles - Vollmann
Joyce Carol Oates
Zadie Smith
Top 10
Gravity’s Rainbow - Pynchon
The Recognitions - Gaddis
The Public Burning - Coover
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
Short stories - Kafka
The Sot-Weed Factor - Barth
Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut
White Noise - DeLillo
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
@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
https://coronasamizdat.com
Instagram @rick.harsch
@corona_samizdat
Gmail - Rick.harsch@gmail.com
Buy The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas here : https://zerogrampress.com/2022/01/26/the-manifold-destiny-of-eddie-vegas/
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
https://danieldaviswood.com
@danieldaviswood
@ThisIsSplice
thisissplice.co.uk
Buy Daniel’s books at www.booktopia.com.au
https://www.booktopia.com.au/at-the-edge-of-the-solid-world-daniel-davis-wood/book/9781922267009.html
Gateway books
The Sandman - Neil Gaiman
Dhalgren - Samuel R Delany
Lanark - Alasdair Gray
Current reads / looking forward to
Shakespeare
Russian classics
The Longcut - Emily Hall
Comac McCarthy - New books
Paul Stanbridge - My Mind to me a Kingdom is
Mark Haber - The Abyss of St Sebastian
Camilla Grudova - Children of Paradise
Edmond Caldwell - Human Wishes /Enemy Combatant
Top 10
The Plains - Murnane
Life and Times of Michael.K - J.M. Coetzee
Voss - Patrick White
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Absalom, Absalom - William Falkner
Melanctha - Gurtrude Stein
The Known World - Edward P Jones
Solar Bones - Mike McCormack
Moby Dick / Bartleby The Scrivener - Herman Melville
Meg Tuite
https://megtuite.com
Buy White Van here;
https://megtuite.com/megs-books/#white-van
Books mentioned
Lithium - For Medea by Kate Braverman
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Gateway books / Authors
Flannery O’Connor - Collected works
Issac Bashevis Singer
Bernard Malamud
Shirley Jackson
Sylvia Plath
Anne Sexton
Thomas Wolfe
Fernando Pessoa
Dylan Thomas
Flann O’Brian
Bruno Shultz
Clarise Lispector
Lucia Berlin
Jean Rhys
Carte Blanche authors -
Dominique Christina
Ottessa Moshfegh
Melissa Pritchard
Eimear McBride
Also mentioned - Thomas James
Djuna Barnes - Nightwood
Olga Tokarczuk
Memories That Smell Like Gasoline - David Wojnarowicz
Olivia Laine -
Maggie Nelson
Emil Cioran
William R Soldan
Nabokov - Pnin
Marcus Pastor Begat Who Begat Who Begat
David Nutt - Summer time in the Emergency Room
Top 10
Bruno Shultz - Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling - Marguerite Young
Lidia Yuknavitch- The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
So What if it is True- Lorrie Jackson
Third Policeman Flann O’Brian
The Passion According to G.H - Clarice Lispector
Dominique Christina - https://www.dominiquechristina.com
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
Complete Gary Lutz / Worsted - Garielle Lutz
Ocean Veoung
Fernando Pessoa
Send us a voice message here;
https://anchor.fm/beyondzero/message
Brad Kelly
https://www.bradkellyesque.com
https://artofdarkpod.com
@bradkelly
Buy House of Sleep
https://www.amazon.com/House-Sleep-Brad-Kelly/dp/B08SLGF4W1
Gateway books
Jack London - Short Stories (To Build a Fire)
The Dark Tower - Steven King
Stories of Franz Kafka
Jack Kerouac - On The Road
Current reads
Robert Aickman
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - PKD
Looking forward to :
A Season on Earth - Murnane
Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger and Stella Maris
Carte Blanche :
Cormac McCarthy
Don DeLillo
Rachel Kushner
Top 10
Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson
Meditations in Green - Stephen Wright
Labyrinths - Borges
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
Stoner - John Williams
New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Cities of the Red Night Trilogy - William S. Burroughs
Ashely Goldberg
@ashg1305 Twitter
@ash_goldberg Instagram
https://www.ashley-goldberg.com/abomination
Gateway books
Goosebumps - R.L. Stine
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
Ray Carver - Cathedral
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
TBR pile/Recent reads
If You’re Happy by Fiona Robertson
Colin Barrett - Homesickness
Wendy Erskine - Dance Move
The War for Gloria - Gordon Lish
George Saunders - A swim in a pond in the rain
Jessica Stanley’s A Great Hope T
he Keepers - Al Campbell
Other Houses - Paddy O'Reilly
No hard Feelings - Genevieve Novak
Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls - Anne Casey Hardy
Carte blanche authors George Saunders Cynan Jones Jennifer Down
Top 10
Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
The Slave - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Rabbits for Food - Binnie Kirshenbaum
Stephen Florida - Gabe Habash
Manual For Cleaning Women - Lucia Berlin
Wake in Fright - Kenneth Cook
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness - Richard Yates
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Pugilist at Rest - Thom Jones
Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson
America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots; A Diagnostic
Written by Philip Freedenberg and Illustrated by Jeff Walton
Instagram ;
Phil
@cultofthecactusboots
Jeff
@matter_interacting
Order their book through Rick Harsch rick.harsch@gmail.com
https://coronasamizdat.com
Gold Edition
https://coronasamizdat.com/index.php?id_product=61&rewrite=limited-edition-gold-cactus-boots&controller=product
Books mentioned
Philosophy of Creativity - David Lee Miller
Rerelease from Corona Samizdat with illustrations by Jeff Walton coming soon.
Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas - Rick Harsch,
The Combinations, Louis Armand
Cairo - Louis Armand
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
Moby Dick - Melville
Animal Money - Michael Cisco
Infinite Jest - DFW
Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Gravity’s Rainbow - Pynchon
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L’Engle
Oskar Submerges - Zac Tanner
Wandering Stone - The Streets of Old Izola
Sunflower - Tex Gresham
Jared Marcel Pollen
jaredmoiseul.wordpress.com
@JaredMPollen
Buy Venus and Document through
https://www.crowsnestbooks.com
Gateway books
1984 George Orwell
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
Current reads /recently enjoyed
Tom McCarthy - Making of Incarnation - (Carte Blanche)
Svage Detectives - Bolano
Top Ten
- Gravity’s Rainbow - Pynchon
- Humboldt’s Gift - Bellow
- Philip Larkin- Collected Poems
- Collected essays - Michel de Montaigne
- Letters to a Young Contrarian - Hitchens
- Sincerity and Authenticity - Lionel Trilling
- Underworld - Don DeLillo
- Sound and the Fury - Fawkner
- Hamlet - Shakespeare
- Also mentioned Inside Story - Martin Amis
Brendan Colley
@brendancolley
The Signal Line is out now through Transit Lounge
https://transitlounge.com.au/shop/the-signal-line/
Gateway books
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
White Noise - Don DeLillo
Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
Current Reads
Lovers of Philosophy – Warren Ward
In Plain Sight -Ross Coulthart
Looking forward to
Ellen Van Neerven – Comfort Food
Scot Patrick Mitchell – Clean
Andrew Roff – Teeth of A Slow Machine
Adam Ouston – Waypoints
Robert Lukin – Loveland
Kirsten Arnett-Mostly Dead Things
Denis Johnson - Train Dreams
Stefan Zweig – Chess
Hemingway – A Movable Feast
Autobiograpy of Alice B Toklas – Gertrude Stein
George Saunders – A Swim in the Pond in the Rain
The Keepers - Albert Campbell
Blankets (Graphic Novel) - Craig Thomson
Icelandic tradition of book giving – Jolabokaflod
Top 10
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
White Noise - Don DeLillo
Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy O’Toole
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Sayaka Murata – Earthlings
Patrick DeWitt- Under Major Domo Minor
Don’t Skip Out On Me – Willy Vlautin
The Wanderers – Meg Howrey
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
Clarissa Botsford
@botsford_cla
https://clarissabotsford.com
https://www.heloisepress.com/book/thirsty-sea -Erica Mou’s book Thirsty Sea
Books mentioned
Sacha Naspini – Oxygen
Conchita de Gregori – The Missing Word
Mariolina Venezia – Matera Thrillers
Currently working on
New Sacha Naspini - Le Case De Malcontento
Oliva Denaro – Viola Ardone
Current reads and recently enjoyed
Vanda Symons - Faceless
Joyce Carrol Oates – Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars
Claudia Piñeiro – Elena Knows
Simone Buchholz – Chastity Riley
Meg Mason – Sorrow and Bliss
Louise Beech – This is How We Are Human
Abi Daré - The Girl with the Louding Voice Bernardine Evaristo – Girl Woman Other
Richard Flanagan – The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Colson Whitehead – Underground Railway
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
Jeanette Winterson – Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Gabriel Blackwell
@gabeblackwell
https://www.therupturemag.com
http://www.gabrielblackwell.com
https://www.thisissplice.co.uk
By Doom Town Here :
http://zerogrampress.com/2022/01/25/doom-town/
Gateway Books
Mysteries of the Unknown
Tales of the Cthulhu mythos - H.P. Lovecraft
Grove / New Directions publishing
Also mentioned - Against The World Against Life - Houellebecq
Carte Blanche Authors
- Eliot Weinberger
-Marie NDiaye
Lawrence Weschler
Garielle Lutz
Brian Evenson
Lydia Davis
Current Reads / Looking forward
Jon Fosse - Trilogy / Septology
Dag Solstad
Barbra Comyns - Sisters by a River
American Stutter - Steve Erickson
Top 10
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa - by Jan Potocki
The Obscene Bird of Night - by José Donoso
Gertrude Stein - The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Castle - Kafka
William Gaddis - JR
Borges - Collected Fictions
William. H. Gass - Omensetter’s Luck
The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
Flann O’Brian - The Third Policeman
Proust - Swann’s Way translated by Lydia Davis
Chris Power
@chris_power Twitter
instagram.com/chrisjohnpower
Order A Lonely Man here
https://www.booktopia.com.au/a-lonely-man-chris-power/book/9780374298449.html
Gateway books
Lord of The Rings - Tolkien
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson
Carte Blanche
- Gwendoline Riley
-Rachel Cusk
-Katie Kitamura
-Fernanda Melchor
Current reads
The War For Gloria - Atticus Lish
Top 10
Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
2666 - Roberto Bolano
Moby Dick
Gathering Evidence - Thomas Bernhard
Villette - Charlotte Bronte
Mrs Dalloway - Woolf
Jude The Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Collected Chekhov
Party Going - Henry Green
In A Strange Room - Damian Galgut
Tomorrow In The Battle Think on Me / A Heart So White - Javier Marias
Mark de Silva
https://mark-de-silva.com
@markdesilva1
https://www.thisissplice.co.uk
Order the Logos and Square Wave here :
https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/our-titles/phase-4/the-logos/
Gateway Books :
DESCARTES - MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY.
SCHOPENHAUER, ON THE SUFFERING OF THE WORLD
STEPPENWOLF, HERMAN HESSE
RECENTLY READ :
Middlemarch
Brothers Karamozov
A Fiery and Furious People, James Sharpe
CURRENTLY READING: Invisible Man--
A Philosophy of Madness: the experience of psychotic thinking--Dutch Philosopher Wouter Kusters
Future Reads: Jesus the Magician: Morton Smith, Columbia Historian
TOP 10
Blithedale Romance--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Growth of the Soil--Knut Hamsun (Life and Times of Michael K).
The Sleepwalkers, Herman Broch
Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias
Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
The Leopard, Giuseppie Lampedusa
Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
The Confidence Man, Herman Melville
Hyperion, Holderlin
Pushkin, Short Stories (Queen of Spades).
Erica Mou
http://ericamou.com
@ericamou
Buy Thirsty Sea from ;
https://www.heloisepress.com/book/thirsty-sea
https://open.spotify.com/album/3sQyHcF85hNSArNS3wKSZj?si=wPFFq4CITWayJ2SVnbbetA
On tour
UK events
https://www.waterstones.com/events/erica-mou-talk-with-live-music/canterbury-rose-lane
https://www.waterstones.com/events/gower-st-indie-spotlight-erica-mou-and-ivana-sajko-in-conversation-with-merve-emre/london-gower-street
Currently Reading
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ivana Sajko - Love Novel
Recommended reading
Concita De Gregorio - The Missing Word
https://www.europaeditions.com/book/9781609457631/the-missing-word
Emanuele Trevi - Two Lives
Top Shelf
Letter to a child never born - Oriana Fallaci
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
The Stranger - Albert Camus
All Men are Mortal - Simone de Beauvoir
A Room Of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
The Adversary - Emmanule Carrere
Boredom - Alberto Moravia
Family Sayings (Lessico famigliare) - Natalia Ginzburg
Music at the end of the episode is Animals from Erica's latest Album, Nature
Emily Hall
@emilyhallnyc
Buy the Longcut here https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/the-longcut
Influences;
Thomas Bernhard
Gertrude Stein
Samuel Beckett
Gateway books/art
Harriet The Spy - Fitzhugh
Bleak House - Dickens
Concrete - Bernhard
Arthur Danto
Sigmar Polka
Mark Lombardi
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2-2-can-cake/
https://artbasel.com/catalog/artwork/34806/Sigmar-Polke-Druckfehler-Printing-Error
http://www.artnet.com/artists/sigmar-polke/velocitas-firmitudo-kuY66hul3giEoMuJsTWS3Q2
Blind Spot books
-
The Captive - Proust
-
Arno Schmitt
Currently reading / Recently enjoyed/ looking forward to
Claudia Piñeiro - Elena Knows
My Dead Book - Nate Lippens
Since the Accident - Jen Craig
Carlos Labbé - Spiritual Choreography
Mark Haber - St Sebastian’s Abyss
Daša Drndic - Doppelgänger
Top Ten
Thomas Bernhard - Correction
Waiting for Godot - Beckett
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
Julie Hecht - The Unprofessionals
Lydia Davis - The End of The Story
2666 - Bolano
Mapp and Lucia - E. F. Benson
Wittgenstein’s Mistress - Markson
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
Madame Realism - Lynne Tillman
Ben Walter
https://ben-walter.com
Email hello@ben-walter.com
Twitter @ben_walter
Buy What Fear Was here:
https://shop.fullersbookshop.com.au/p/what-fear-was?barcode=9781922571205&search_key=what+fear+was
Gateway books
Current reads
Top 10
Collected Fiction - Borges
Heat and Light - Ellen Van Neerven
Waypoints - Adam Ouston
Top 10
Seeing Stars Simon Armitage
Cosmos and Ferdyderke - Witold Gombrowicz
Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut
Underworld - Don Delillo
Fever Dream - Samanta Schweblin
Pereira Maintains- Antonio Tabucchi
Julius Winsome - Gerard Donovan
Speedboat - Renata Adler
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)
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
Seth on Twitter @wastemailing
Instagram @wastemailinglist
wastemailinglist@gmail.com
https://wastemailinglist.substack.com
Gateway Books:
House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
2.Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
3.Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Currently Reading:
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Anniversaries: A Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl by Uwe Johnson, translated by Damion Searls
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Anticipated Reads:
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William T Vollmann
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Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter
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Blinding: The Left Wing by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter
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A Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine translated by Ralph Manheim
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Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet
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Devil House by John Darnielle
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The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
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Malina by Ingborg Bachman translated by Philip Boehm
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The Complete Works of Primo Levi compiled by Ann Goldstein
Top 10:
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I’m Thinking of Endings Things by Iain Reid
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Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
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Satantango by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes
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The Burrow by Franz Kafka, translated by Michael Hofmann
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In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
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Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
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Story of the Eye by George Bataille, translated by Joachim Neugrochal
(Correction (1:11:30) - Seth refers to the narrator's love interest as Marcelle where he meant to say Simone. Marcelle is a secondary character in the story.)
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The Recognitions by William Gaddis
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Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Adam Ouston
@adamouston
https://www.costyoume.co/biography
Buy Waypoints here
https://puncherandwattmann.com/product/waypoints/
https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/our-titles/phase-4/waypoints/
https://www.booktopia.com.au/waypoints-adam-ouston/book/9781922571243.html
Gateway books
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Malone Dies - Beckett
Jeanette Winterson - The Passion
Current reads
Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellmann
Fernando Pessoa -Biography - Richard Zenith
Paul Auster - Stephan Crane
Ben Walter - What Fear Was
Top Shelf
All Fires the Fire - Julio Cortazar
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Jeanette Winterson - The Passion
Thomas Bernhard - The Looser
The Melancholy of Resistance - László Krasznahorkai
Dublinesque - Enrique Villa-Matas
The Vegetarian - Han King
By Night in Chile - Roberto Bolano
Max Sebald - Vertigo
Caroline Golden and Derek Owens
The Villagers is available now here;
https://animalheartpress.net/meet-the-villagers/
www.carolinegolden.com
@cgcollage
www.derekowens.net
@derekowens.art
Gateway books
D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
The golden phoenix, and other French-Canadian fairy tales - Book by Marius Barbeau
Alice - Lewis Carroll
Top Shelf
Derek
Laurence Millman - A kayak Full of Ghosts
Russel Edson - Poetry
Kij Johnston - At the Mouth of the River of Bees
Ridley Walker Russel Hoban
Carmen Maria Machado - Her Body and Other Parties
Laird Hunt - Zorie and In The House in The Dark in The Woods
Jacob Rabinowitz - Blame It On Blake: a memoir of dead languages, gender vagrancy, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Corso & Carr
Caroline -
The Green Fairy Book - Andrew and Nora Lang
Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
Love in the Time of Cholera - Marquez
The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
Fresh Water for Flowers Valérie Perrin
Rikki Ducornet
http://www.rikkiducornet.com
Gateway Books / Authors
Alice in Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carol
50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship - Salvador Dali
Misfortunes of The Immortals - Paul Eluard, Illustrated by Max Ernst
Kafka
Borges
Calvino
Lispector
Lolita - Nabokov
100 Years of Solitude - Marquez
Omensetter’s Luck - William H Gass
Currently reading/recently enjoyed looking forward to
Above us The Milky Way - Fowzia Karimi
The Celestial Hunter - Roberto Calloso
Top 10ish
Above us The Milky Way - Fowzia Karimi
Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carol
Kafka
Borges
Lolita - Nabokov
Cosmicomics - Calvino
The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin
Omensetter’s Luck - William H Gass
Jen Craig
Buy Panthers and the Museum of Fire through
http://zerogrampress.com/2020/03/30/panthers-and-the-museum-of-fire/
https://www.booktopia.com.au/panthers-and-the-museum-of-fire-jen-craig/book/9781953409065.html
In Australia head to Gleebooks or Blarney Books
https://shop.blarneybooks.com.au/p/panthers-and-the-museum-of-fire?barcode=9781925052145
Gateway books
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
An Imaginary Life - David Malouf
The Man who Loved Children - Christina Stead
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
Gargoyles - Thomas Bernhard
Currently reading / Looking forward to
Mauro Javier Cárdenas - Aphasia
See What I See - Greg Gerke
Dodge Rose - Jack Cox
The Other Name - Jon Fosse
The Longcut - Emily Hall -
Doomtown - Gabriel Blackwell
Top 10
Gargoyles - Thomas Bernhard
The Man who Loved Children - Christina Stead
Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
The New Life - Orhan Pamuk
The Watchtower/ The Long Prospect - Elizabeth Harrower
Border Districts - Gerald Murnane
Amerika - Franz Kafka
Garielle Lutz
@gariellelutz
https://www.booktopia.com.au/worsted-garielle-lutz/book/9780996494922.html
https://www.hobartpulp.com/books/worsted
Show notes
Gateway books
City Life - Donald Barthelme
Barry Hannah - Ray
Modern American Usage -Wilson Follet
Currently reading
See What I See - Greg Gerke
Gwendoline Riley (all books)
The Pure and The Impure - Colette
Diane Arbus - new biography
Looking forward to;
A History of Present Illness, Anna DeForest
Summertime in the Emergency Room, David Nutt
No One Left to Come Looking for You, Sam Lipsyte
The Uncollected Essays, Elizabeth Hardwick
Top 10
Voyage in the Dark - Jean Rhys
The Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer - Christine Schutt
S.J. Perelman - The best of /Crazy like a fox
The Long Winded Lady - Maeve Brennan
Collected Works a journal in Jazz 1954- 2001 - Whitney Balliett
Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick
Modern American Usage -Wilson Follet
Venus Drive - Sam Lipsyte
Files on Parade John O’Hara.
Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers - Janet Malcolm
This week’s give-away
Source by Rosemary Johnston
@angelseyrie1901
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Source-Rosemary-Johnston/dp/1912665107
https://storymachines.co.uk/product/source/
If you would like free copy and live in the UK or Ireland DM me or email me beyondthezeropod@gmail.com first in wins.
Max Easton
@maxeaston__
You can get Magpie Wing here https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-magpie-wing-max-easton/book/9781925818765.html
or here https://giramondopublishing.com/books/
or https://www.amazon.com/Magpie-Wing-Max-Easton-ebook/dp/B09C88HB8F/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3E9SH0OPQ9L6D&keywords=max+easton&qid=1644283369&sprefix=max+eaton%2Caps%2C273&sr=8-1
We have one free copy for an Australian listener - DM me or email me - first in wins.
Gateway Books:
Philip K Dick books
Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night / Cat's Cradle
John Iriving - The World According to Garp J
Recently enjoyed / Looking forward to Nanni Balestrini - the Unseen. Shaun Prescott - Untitled 2nd Novel. Luke Carman - Untitled Novel. Upcoming works by S.L. Lim and Briohny Doyle
TOP TEN Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
John Irving - The 158-Pound Marriage
Helen Garner - Honour and Other People's Children
Paul Beatty - The Sellout
E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime
Doris Lessing - The Good Terrorist
Mordecai Richler - Barney's Version
Kathy Acker - Blood and Guts in High School
David Keenan - This is Memorial Device
Frank Moorehouse - The Electrical Experience
The Movement Image —Gilles Deleuze
James Ley - The Critic in the Modern World
Genese Grill - new essay book from Splice later this year.
Gateway books
Joyce - Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Long Man Ulysses
Beckett- Plays + Trilogy
Top 10
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rainer Marie Rilke
À la recherche du temps perdu - Marcel Proust
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick
The Enigma of Arrival - V.S. Naipaul
The Tunnel - William Gass
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer - Christine Schutt
Centenary of Ulysses Special with Bob Carr
Find Bob on Twitter @bobjcarr
Show notes
Currently reading /recently enjoyed
Thomas Mann - Lotte in Weimar
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Top 10
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
Anthony Powell -A Dance to The Music of Time
The Odyssey
Brother Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
Madame Bovary
Shakespeare - Plays
Chekov - Plays
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Also mentioned
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Leopard
Philip Roth - The Plot Against America
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Nevada McPherson
Poser is out Feb 14 from Outcast - preorder here
https://www.booktopia.com.au/poser-nevada-mcpherson/book/9781737982913.html
http://www.nevada-mcpherson.com
Current reads and looking forward;
Shaun McCallum - Recalcitrant Stuff of Life
DuVay Knox - The Pussy Detective
In Filth is Shall be Found
Austin Davies - Lotus and the Apocalypse
Jack Moody Crooked Smile
Top Ten
Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers
Complete Stories - Flannery O’Connor
How Proust Can Save Your Life - Alain de Botton
I Fatty - Jerry Stahl
The Deer Park - Norman Mailer
McTeague - Frank Norris
The Colossus of Maroussi - Henry Miller
Stroheim - Arthur Lennig
Naked Lunch - Burroughs
Anaïs Nin: A Biography - Deirdre Bair
Wendy Erskine
Show notes
Links
Pre-orders for Dance Move here
https://noalibis.com/product/dance-move-wendy-erskine-pre-order/
@WednesdayErskin
Gateway books /authors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga
Happy Venture Readers Book 4
https://marchhousebookscom.blogspot.com/2012/08/can-you-help-identify-this-book.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Streatfeild
Current reads /recently enjoyed and looking forward to
https://www.republicofconsciousness.com/prize
Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure - Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi
Small Town Girl: Love, Lies and the
Undercover Police - Donna McLean
Re-reading William Faulkner - Light in August
Looking forward to - Nicole Flattery - Nothing Special
Top 10
Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Hellfire- Nick Tosches
Alma Cogan - Gordon Burn
Good Behaviour - Molly Keane
Light in August William Faulkner
Pat Barker - Blow Your House Down
Problems - Jade Sharma
Monument Maker - David Keenan
Age of innocence - Edith Wharton
Beware of Pity- Stefan Zweig
Honorable mention
Will and Testament - Vigdis Hjorth
Austin Davis
Website
https://msha.ke/austindavis/#about
Street Sorrows EP
https://open.spotify.com/album/14HG4cScgrnLtJGelfg47D?si=-TUXg_ONQ8WpmDNG2wvbXQ
Order Lotus and The Apocalypse - Out March 4th
https://www.outcast-press.com/published-works
Twitter @Austin_Davis17
Instagram @austinwdavis1
Gateway books
Neil Hilborn - OCD poem
Billy Collins - Poetry
Ray Bradbury
Current reads / recently enjoyed /looking forward to
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
Homie - Danez Smith
Rosemarie Dombrowski
Hunter Hazelton - I Never Understood Religion Until I Learned Your Name
The Sunflower Cast a Spell Save Us from the Void - Jackie Wang
Buddy Wakefield- Choir of Honest Killers
Top 10
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
The Body - Steven King
The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin - Terrance Hayes
Wild Milk - Sabrina Orah Mark
The Crown Ain't Worth Much - Hanif Abdurraqib
Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong
Crush - Richard Siken
Depression & Other Magic Tricks- Sabrina Benaim
Don’t call us dead - Danez Smith
Ryan Ruby
Links
http://www.ryanruby.info
@_ryanruby_
https://dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/how-does-this-get-read
Bottom's Dream, the Arno Schmidt Project, and Philanthropy Chad W. Post
Recent / Current reads /Looking forward to
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon by Mark McGurl
When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamin Labatut
Fireflies by Luis Sagasti
Anecdotes by Heinrich von Kleist
Lauren Elkin notes on a Parisian Commute
Gateway book - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Top 10
Economy of the Unlost by Anne Carson
The Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso
Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle by Pierre Klossowski
Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Brütt, or The sighing gardens (Brütt, oder, Die seufzenden Gärten) by Friederike Mayröcker
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Gateway books
Edgar Allan Poe stories translated by Julio Cortazar
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka translated by Jorge Luis Borges
Currently reading
Las malas
Novel by Camila Sosa Villada
Annie Ernaux - The Years and The Other Daughter
Iosi Havilio - Petite Fleur
Paulina Flores - Isla Decepción
Logan February - Fuckboys
https://www.loganfebruary.com
Looking forward to
Lydia Davis - Collected Stories
Re-read Capote - In Cold Blood
Top 10
Invisible Cities
Lorca - The Audience
Ceaser Vallejo - Human Poems
Jose Watanabe
Selected Poems Wislawa Szymborska
Wallace Stevens - Aphorisms
Rilke - New Poems
Goethe - Roman Elegies
Another County - James Baldwin
Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Woman Destroyed - Simone de Beauvoir
The kiss of the spider woman - Manuel Puig
Flannery O’Connor -Everything That Rises Must Converge
Birds of America - Lorrie Moore
Against the interpretation - Susan Sontag
On Being Ill - Virginia Woolf
History of death in the western world - Philippe Ariès
Grave of fireflies - Akiyuki Nosaka
The Chess Novel Stefen Zweig.
End of year special !
Co-hosted by Thommy Waite !
Featuring Michael Horn (Drunk Pynchon) Bram Presser, Martin Shaw, Travis Meyer, Iain Smith, James Rosewarne, Lauren Teixeira, Sean McCallum, Dustin Illingworth, Greg Gerke, Seth from Waste Mailing List, Ryan Alexander, David Keenan, Jake Dean, Adam Ouston, Michale Winkler, Courtney S Gray and George Salis.
Books of 2021 (and best books read)
Grimmish - Michael Winkler
Monument Maker - David Keenan
Mona - Pola Oloixarac
The Employees - Olga Ravn
Any Day You Can Die - Thommy Waite
Recalcitrant Stuff of Life - Sean McCallum
Burning Man - Biography of D.H. Lawrence - Frances Wilson
The Netanyahus - Josh Cohen
Sunflower -Tex Gresham
The Luminous Novel - Mario Levrero
CoinciDATE - David R Low
Hope - Glen Duncan (Thommy’s best read this year)
The Things We’ve seen - Augustine Fernando Mallo
William Blake Versus the World - John Higgs
Inquisitor’s Manual - António Lobo Antunes
Helen DeWitt - Last Samurai
Story of The Eye - George Bataille
Hypnopony - Stuart Buck
Bubblegum - Adam Levin
Clairvoyant of the Small - The Life of Robert Walser - Susan Bernofsky
The Moment - Peter Holm Jensen
Gabrielle Blackwell - Correction
Garielle Lutz - Worsted
Michael Drinkard - Disobedience
Wittgenstein’s Mistress - David Markson
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
American and The Cult of The Cactus Boots
List Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli
Novel Explosives - Jim Gaur
Animal Money - Michael Cisco
Snuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
The Interim -Woolfgang Hilbig
Shanty Town - César Aira
Clarise Lispector - Hour of the Star
Geoff Sparrow - Crimes Against Nature
The Mayfly Glimmer Before Last Call- Poe Ballantine
Amnesia Road - Luke Stegemanm
Born Into This - Adam Thomson
Steven Millhauser - We Others
The Animals in That County - Laura Jean Mckay
Jessamine Ward - Salvage The Bones
Hermione Lee - Virginia Woolf
Transcendental style in film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer
- Paul Schrader
Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
Mayor Of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
Goodbye Columbus - Philip Roth
Love in a Dead Language - Lee Seigel
Lance Olsen - Skin Elegies
Picks for 2022 -
Wendy Erskine - Dance Moves
The new 736 page Houellebecq - Annihilation
Javier Marias - Thomas Nevinson
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu -
Pierre Senges - Ahab (sequels)
The Logos - Mark De Silva
More David Keenan
More Andres Neuman
New Rikki Dukornet
Illustrated Ulysses - from Eduardo Arroyo
Rian Hughes XX
Reprint of Miss Mackintosh My Darling Marguerite Young - Dalkey Archive
Waypoints - Adam Ouston
Lydia Davis - Essays
Gabrielle Blackwell - Doomtown
Morgan Meis and J.M. Tyree - Letters on Cinema and Religion in Malick, Von Trier, and Kieślowski
Max Blecher coming from Sublunary
Antagony - Luis Goytisolo
New Sorokin
Alejandro Zambra - Chilean Poet
Andrew Roff - Teeth of a Slow Machine
Ben Walter - What Fear Was
Robbie Arnot - Limberlost
Mirandi Riwoe - The Burnished Sun
Jane Rawson - New book
Sweet Meat Saga - G. F. Gravenson
Hustler’s Grotto - Yayoi Kusama
Leg Over Leg -Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
Devil To Pay in the Backland -João Guimarães Rosa
Music Courtesy of Bram Presser
Happy New Year!
Season 2 coming in 2022.
Jack Moody
@jack_is_moody
Crooked Smile is out through Outcast in March 15th 2022
https://www.outcast-press.com
Gateway books
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Currently Reading / Recently enjoyed / looking forward to
Sean McCallum - Recalcitrant Stuff of Life
Lost City of The Monkey God - Douglas Preston
Top 10 (ish)
The Sarah Book - Scott McClanahan
Ablutions - Patrick DeWitt
Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
Nick Flynn - Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
The Outsider (The Stranger) - Albert Camus
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Old Man and The Sea - Hemingway
MAX LAWTON
@maxdaniellawton
Gateway books
Elementary Particles (Atomised) - Houellebecq
Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
Kakfa on the Shore - Murakami
Current reads/recently enjoyed/ looking forward to;
Finnegan’s Wake - Joyce (reread)
In search of Lost Time - Proust
Out of the World - Knausgaard - (coming soon in English)
New Houellebecq book ! (Coming 2022)
Antonio Moresco The Beginnings (Gli Esordi)
American Dream - Mailer
Peter Handke - assorted books
Top 10
Ulysses - Joyce
Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
Blue Lard - Vladimir Sorokin
Melancholy and Resistance - László Krasznahorkai
Elementary Particles (Atomised) - Houellebecq
The Kindly Ones- Jonathan Littell
My Struggle - Knausgaard
2666 - Bolano
In search of Lost Time - Proust
Gravity’s Rainbow - Pynchon
Parallel Stories - Péter Nádas
Writers;
Peter Hanke
Ian Sinclair
Elijah Moss
briefinterviewswithvampirecastleppl
@gangweedernomad
https://link.medium.com/5cMZu8BLslb
https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/e-moss/
Gateway Books
Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) Charles Baudelaire
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Current reads and recently enjoyed/looking forward to
J.R. - William Gaddis
Top 10
Omensetters Luck William Gaddis
Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
The Cannibal - John Hawkes
Second Skin - John Hawkes
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
The Erasers - Alain Robbe-Grillet
Justine - Marquis de Sade
Margins of Philophsy - Jaques Derrida
Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) Charles Baudelaire
Cerebus (graphic novel) Church and State and High Society - Dave Sim
Sergio De La Pava
https://www.sergiodelapava.com
Gateway Books
Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Recently Enjoyed
Winter in Sokcho - Elisa Shua Dusapin
See also https://www.nationalbook.org/2021-national-book-awards-longlist-for-translated-literature/
Top 10
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Moby Dick Herman Melville
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Fat City - Leonard Gardner
Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
Mulligan Stew - Gillbert Sorrentino
Lauren Teixeira.
@lrntex
https://www.laurenteixeira.com
Our Struggle Podcast
@OurStrugglePod
https://anchor.fm/ourstrugglepod
Gateway Book
Tintin - Herge
Usagi Yojimbo- Stan Sakai
Currently Reading /Recently enjoyed /Looking forward tp
Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge
Play Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
Vox - Nicholson Baker
Red Harvest Dashiel Hammet
Tintin and the Secret of Literature - Tom McCarthy
Morning Star - Knausgaard
Anthony Powell - Dance to the Music of Time
Top 10
The Quiet American - Grahame Green
Mating - Norman Rush
Pride and Predjuice - Jane Austen
North and South. - Elizabeth Gasell
Jayne Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Karla Trilogy by John le Carré · Book 1 · Shelve Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy · Book 2 · Shelve The Honourable Schoolboy · Book 3 · Shelve Smiley's People
From Heaven Lake - Vikram Seth
Tintin - Prisoners of the sun Herge’
Our Struggle Volume 1 - Knausgaard
Show notes;
Ben Shore
@bookshore_ben Instagram
https://www.youtube.com/c/bookshore
Gateway books
Hard Boiled Wonderland At the End of the World - Murakami
Borges - Stories
Currently reading / recently enjoyed
Omensetter’s Luck - William H Gass
In The Heart In The Heart of The Country William H Gass
The Tunnel - William H Gass
Parallel Stories Peter Nadas
Top 10
Plot Against America
Lanark - Alisdair Gray
Disconnected by Oğuz Atay
The Frog Cemetery - Umberto Eco
White Noise - Don Delilo
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
Shoat Rumblings - Samuel R Delany
Lookout Cartridge - Joseph McElroy
Dubliners - James Joyce
Mason and Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
Show Notes
Emmett Stinson
@EmmettStinson
Gateway books
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jnr
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Current reading, TBR and Recently enjoyed
Novel Explosives - Jim Gaur
House of all Nations - Christina Stead
Complete Stories - Clarice Lispector
Last Letter to a Reader - Gerald Murnane
Daronville’s Cat Alexander Theroux
Louis Armand - The Combinations
Prae - Miklós Szentkuthy
Adam Buenosayres - Leopoldo Marechal
Gregor Von Rizzori - Abel and Cain
Prairie Earth - William Least Heat-Moon
Kin -Miljenko Jergović
Havoc - Tom Kristensen
Larva - Julián Ríos
Belle du Seigneur -Albert Cohen
The Dying Grass - Vollmann
Top 10
1.) Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
2.) The Recognitions - William Gaddis
3.) Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things - Gilbert Sorrentino
4.) Middlemarch - George Elliot
5.) 2666 Roberto Bolaño
6.) A Million Windows - Gerald Murnane
7.) Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
8.)Panthers and the Museum of Fire - Jen Craig
9.) The Lost Scrapbook - Evan Dara
10.) The Counterfeiters Andre Gide
Ryan Alexander
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Twitter @ryanhasbadtaste
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Instagram @therepublicofbadtaste
Vollmannia podcast @vollmannia coming in 2022
Gateway Books
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Hamlet
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Goosebumps
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Salem's Lot
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Arguably - Christopher Hitchens
TBR
· The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk; translated by Jennifer L. Croft
· The Plains, Inland, A Million Windows, Border Districts by Gerald Murnane
· Doppelgänger, Leica Format, Trieste, Belladonna, EEG by Daša Drndić; translated by S.D. Curtis, Celia Hawkesworth, and Ellen Elias-Bursać
· Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald; translated by Michael Hulse and Anthea Bell
· Mr. Theodore Mundstock, The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks; translated by Iris Urwin and Eva M. Kandler
· Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories by Tadeusz Borowicki; translated by Madeline G. Levine
· Satantango, The Melancholy of Resistance, War & War, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai; translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet
· Like a Tear in the Ocean, Vols. I-III by Manès Sperber; translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon
· The Book of Blam, The Use of Man, Kapo by Aleksandar Tišma; translated by Michael Henry Heim, Bernard Johnson, and Richard Williams
· A Dreambook for Our Time, A Minor Apocalypse by Tadeusz Konwicki; translated by David Welsh and Richard Lourie
· Nostalgia, Blinding, Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu; translated by Julian Semilian and Sean Cotter
· Kin by Miljenko Jergović; translated by Russell Scott Valentino
- Frost by Thomas Bernhard; translated by Michael Hofmann
· The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz; translated by Celina Wieniewska
· Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
· Lookout Cartridge, A Smuggler’s Bible, Hind’s Kidnap by Joseph McElroy
Top 10
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Women and Men by Joseph McElroy
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The Doll’s Alphabet by Camilla Grudova
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How to Quiet a Vampire: A Sotie by Borislav Pekić; translated by Stephen M. Dickey and Bogdan Rakić
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The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell; translated by Charlotte Mandell
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Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
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Ice by Anna Kavan
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Rising Up and Rising Down, Vol I: Three Meditations on Death, The Days of the Niblungs, Definitions for Lonely Atoms by William T. Vollmann
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Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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Moby-Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville
David Keenan
@reversediorama
www.whiterabbitbooks.com
Gateway books
Under The Volcano
Lester Bangs - Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Currently reading / TBR
Burning Man: The ascent of D.H. Lawrence - Frances Wilson
Mona - Pola Oloixarac
Selected Letters - John Berryman
The World of Bob Dylan - Sean Lathem
Maximus Poems - Charles Olsen (reread)
(See also - A Guide to The Maximus Poems of Charles Olson - George Butterick)
Strandings: Confessions of a Whale Scavenger - Peter Riley
(Forthcoming Feb 2022)
Top 10
Aqua Viva - Clarise Lispector
Moravagine - Blaise Cendrars
Maximus Poems - Charles Olsen
Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
Monastic Architecture of France - Joan Evans
Lipstick Faces - Drew Marcus
In the Sierra - Mountain Writings Kenneth Rexroth
The Love Object Edna O’Brian
Leviathan - Paul Auster
Lester Bangs - Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Rick Harsch
https://rickharsch.wordpress.com
https://coronasamizdat.com
@harsch_rick twitter
Rick.harsch@gmail.com
@rick.harsch instagram
Currently reading
Blood Meridian - Reread
Oskar Submerges, by Zachary Tanner
The Wolf Leaps, by Chandler Brossard
Bedraggling Grandma with Russian Snow, by Joao Reis
1.) Moby Dick - Melville
2.) Finnegans Wake - Joyce
3.) Middlemarch - Austen
4.) Alvaro Mutis
5.) Trieste - Daša Drndić
6.) Conversation in the Cathedral - Vargos Llosa
7.) Blaise Cendrars -Moravagine
8.) Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer
9.) Beckett Trilogy
10.) Don Quixote
Show notes
Tex Gresham
https://squeakypig.com
@thatsqueakypig
Sunflower is out 22nd of November through Spaceboy Books
https://readspaceboy.com/portfolio/sunflower/
Gateway Book
Valis - Philip K Dick
Currently reading
Search History - Eugene Lim
Ordinary People - Judith Guest
Top 10
1.) Inherent Vice - Pynchon
2.) Underworld - Don Delillo
3.) Valis - PKD
4.) Broom of The System - DFW
5.) American Psycho - BEE
6.) Dear Cyborgs Eugene Lim
7.) The Archive of Alternative Endings - Lindsay Gregor
8.) Bear - Marian Engel
9.) Factotem - Charles Bukowski
10.) Dark Tower - The Gunslinger - Stephen King.
Also mentioned -
Mammother by Zachary Schomburg
Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan
Show notes
Courtenay S. Gray
https://courtenayscorner.com
http://www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2021/10/poetry-selections-from-courtenay-s-gray.html?m=1
http://www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2021/09/fiction-skin.html?m=1
Upcoming work in
https://gutslutpress.wordpress.com/g-u-t-s-l-u-t-new-site-new-press-check-back-soon/
https://www.miserytourism.com/category/fiction-poetry/
https://expatpress.com
Gateway book
Lolita - Nabokov
Georges Bataille - Story of the Eye
Jack Moody - Dancing to Broken Records
Brett Easton-Ellis - American Psycho
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
Simone de Beauvoir - Letters to Sartre
Top 10
- )Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
2.) Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
3.) Love is a Dog From Hell - Charles Bukowski
4.) Age of Reason - Sartre
5.) Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
6.) Fata Morgana - William Kotzwinkle
7.) The Tunnel - Ernesto Sabato
8.) A Spy in the House of Love Anaïs Nin
9.) Notes From the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
10.) Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
George Salis
Show notes
Links
https://thecollidescope.com
https://georgesalis.wordpress.com
https://www.patreon.com/TheCollidescope
Satanic Verses podcast - https://www.booksofsomesubstance.com/books/salman-rushdies-the-satanic-verses-guest-george-salis?fbclid=IwAR3G_D0VNm0UMtq212n1Jmnap5TjSV6xRV_dTmGLjFHdsnLnJs_RLl9Wsnc
Gateway books
Hitch 22 - Christopher Hitchens
Currently reading
Horseplay - Lee Siegel - (also Love in a dark language)
Lance Olsen - Dream Lives of Debris
Mircea Cărtărescu - Nostalgia
João Guimarães - Rosa The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
My Horse and Other Stories - Stacy Levine
Gregor Von Risori - Abel and Cain
Book of Portraiture - Steve Tomasulo (also Vass)
Ibrahim Al-Koni - Anubis and The Fetishists
Tom Mallin's - Erowina
Top 10
Ulysses - James Joyce
Infinite Jest - DFW
Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino (see also Mulligan Stew - Gillbert Sorrentino review coming up on The Collidescope)
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Underworld - Don Delilo
Darconville’s Cat - Alexander Theroux
Show notes
Jasper Fforde
www.jasperfforde.com
Gateway Book;
Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Current reads;
You Are Not Sparrows: A Light-Hearted Account of Flying Between the Wars - by S.J. Carr
Top 10
True Grit - Charles Portis
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About - Mill Millington
He Died With A Felafel in his Hand - John Birmingham
1927 - Bill Bryson
Moomin - Tove Jansen
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Tiger Tiger - Alfred Bester (AKA The Stars My Destination)
Alice in Wonderland / Through The Looking Glass Lewis Carroll
Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
Douglas Adams - All books
Grim Short Story Comp - write your story as a review on danmurphys.com.au and share with us via twitter @beyondzeropod or email to beyondthezeropod@gmail.com Shortlisted entries will be read on the show and the winner will receive a signed copy of Grimmish from Michael Winkler.
Show notes
Grim Short Story Competition;
Entries are open from 24th of September and close on 22nd of October. To submit go to www.danmurphys.com.au and submit your story as a review of a product. Be creative ! Screenshot or send us a link once your entry is live and send to beyondthezeropod@gmail.com or tweet to @beyondzeropod #grim
10 stories will be shortlisted and read on the podcast. The winner will receive a signed copy of Grimmish.
Here is an example;
https://www.danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_73011/mcwilliam-s-royal-reserve-dry-apera (see review titled nothing on earth)
Michael Winkler
Top ten
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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The Outsider by Albert Camus
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The Sweet Science by AJ Liebling
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The Unquiet Grave by Palinurus (Cyril Connolly)
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If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him! The pilgrimage of psychotherapy patients by Sheldon B. Kopp
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Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
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Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
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A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews
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Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
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The Vivisector by Patrick White/The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser
Gateway book:
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig
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Plus Bony books (Arthur Upfield), Agatha Christie books
Recent pleasures:
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My Duck Is Not Your Duck by Deborah Eisenberg
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Tell Me Why by Archie Roach
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It gets me home, this curving track by Ian Penman
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Make it Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie Jamison
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Blacktop Wasteland by SA Crosby
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The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
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Shirl by Wayne Marshall
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501 Minutes to Christ by Poe Ballantine
Links;
https://www.michaelwinkler.com.au
Meyer's Megafictional Musings
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkNIZdug9XtuCHalq-LtBpw
Twitter @nr_wayne
Instagram @meyers_megafictional_musings
Gateway Books
Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz
Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
Currently Reading / TBR / Just read
America and The Cult of The Cactus Boots - Phillip Freedenberg + Jeff Walton. Corona\Samizdat Press
Old Man and The Sea - Hemingway
J.G. Ballard - Concrete Island
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - General in His Labyrinth
Richard Price - The Wanderers
Music choices
Tycho
Propagandhi
Protest the Hero
Rise Against
Metallica
Justice for All
Arizona
Top 10
Fifth Business - Robertson Davies
The Magus - John Fowles
Middle C - William H Gass
Naked Singularity - Sergio De La Pava
Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
The Recognitions - William Gaddis
Against The Day - Thomas Pynchon
The Tunnel - William H Gass
Pale King - David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Ramona Koval
www.ramonakoval.com
Audio clips are courtesy of the ABC and can be found on Ramona’s website and on the ABC website abc.net.au
Gateway book
The Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde (read by Orson Wells)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ4x5x6Gylo
Currently reading;
Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin
Edward Hirsch - How to Read a Poem, Gabriel.
Pat Shipman - Our Oldest Companions
Top 10
The Trial - Franz Kafka
My Mother’s House - Colette
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
What I saw - Joseph Roth
The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
Grace Paley -The Little Disturbances of Man
Ernest Shackelton - South
Wisława Szymborska - Poetry
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana Alexievich
Edward Hirsch - How to Read a Poem and Gabriel.
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 buchr@tumblr.com
bolanobolano.org coming soon
Concavity Show
Email - concavityshow@gmail.com
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
- ) 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
https://www.dustinillingworth.com
@ddillingworth on twiter
Find us on Twitter @beyondzeropod
Email Beyondthezeropod@gmail.com
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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