Beyond The Zero Podcast. Long-form discussions about books with authors, translators and critics. Email us [email protected]
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This week the amazing Brian Evanson speaking about his brand new novel PHANTOM LIMB. Get the book from Coffee House Press and listen here or as you try to text with one thumb. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcas…
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"Devil's Backbone," by the author of "Killoyle," "The Adorations" and "The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad." A novel about ghosts and boozing and love affairs in the Texas Hill Country. Scroll down to Chapter One. Enjoy.
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Positively delighted to share that EYE OF THE MONKEY by Krisztina Tóth, translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet (@caringerel), was shortlisted (!!!) for the 2026 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation (@WarwickPrizeWiT)!
“Unsparing, unforgettable.” —Merve Emre
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For @nytimes, I wrote about Adolfo Bioy Casares’s “Morel’s Invention.” (Gift link below)
Today the BTZ YouTube channel officially launches. Head over and watch interviews with Tom McCarthy, Jerome Charyn (and a cat), Lance Olsen and Joe and Sam Eichner. Check it out youtube.com/@beyondthezeropo…
This week the amazing @jess_sequeira speaking about her translation of THE EIGHTH WONDER by Vlady Kociancich. Loved this chat and the book is great. Get it from @7StoriesPress and listen here or in all the regular places. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcas…
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The reviews are coming in.
"Witty, razor-sharp dialogue... quick, clever, highly original, and genuinely hard to put down."
Thanks, bold, wise and good-looking reader!
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"In short, A Table for Fortune is a book about everything Vollmann has previously written." @TheSpectator
"A Table for Fortune is a deeply ambitious, arguably heroic epic." @AltaJournal
“[A] heroic, fascinating and important work." @nytimes
This week on BTZ - the brilliant James Elkins speaking about his new novel Stories, Like Illness. Listen here or in all the regular places. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcas…
Over on the Patreon - Tom McCarthy speaking about The Rhyl Poster. Coming up in few weeks on the regular feed and for those of you sickos who like this kinda thing...Youtube.
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Happy 70th birthday to the incomparable Lance Olsen! A singular literary innovator, fearless experimenter, and generous intellectual force, Olsen continues to expand what fiction can do and how we see the world.
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My third novel releases a week from today!
Set in Boston, with a brief side trip to Jamestown RI, ONE is about AI, hockey, the power of imagination and living your best life.
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Happy Publication Day to Lance Olsen’s AN INVENTORY OF BENEVOLENT BUTTERFLIES, a literary marvel narrated by Henry Darger! @PublishersWkly calls it “an arresting portrait of a troubled figure," so this is one to discover! Message me with media requests!
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Today @APolitanoff and later in the week Brian Evenson. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcas…
This week the lovely @APolitanoff speaking about his new novel DAD HAD A BAD DAY. Get the book from @astrahousebooks or @Dauntbooks in the UK/Aust. Listen here or in all the regular places open.spotify.com/episode/2ch…
