J. G. Ballard

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• Disjecta: This weeks links

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 130
  Rare photographs of John Coltrane on the updated official website Literature: J. G. Ballard :  Rick McGraths Letter from London: The J. G. Ballard Memorial William S. Burroughs : Mark Dery on Naked Lunch at Fifty The Atlantic Online :  Index of Literary Interviews Samuel Beckett : Zadie Smith ...
  3 days ago

• Disjecta: This weeks links

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 130
  (Image: Francis Bacon, Triptych, May-June, 1973) Literature: J. G. Ballard : NPR publishes an excerpt from the Complete Stories Don DeLillo : A short story in the New Yorker , Midnight in Dostoyevsky Paul Auster : FlavorWire on Paul Austers Invisible Patricia Highsmith : Slavoj Žižek on Patricia ...
  1 week ago

• The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard, in One Volume

  
  WEALTH OF IDEAS — Authority: 119
  At 1196 pages, The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard has to be the longest short story collection I have ever read. It contains 94 stories, and comes at a time of renewed interest in the short story. I am going to review this book for the Sacramento or San Francisco Book Review , but for now, here are some details ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of..."

  
  Daily Cow — Authority: 163
  “Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It’s going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.” - J. G. Ballard
  3 weeks ago

• London, Claro & J.G. Ballard

  
  clusterflock — Authority: 588
  I finally got around to posting some photos/jaded thoughts from London, this first dispatch whilst reading Claro’s Electric Flesh & this second dispatch whilst reading J.G. Ballards’s The Drowned World . Apologies to anyone who likes London, I wasn’t feeling it.
  3 weeks ago

• "I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that..."

  
  Daily Cow — Authority: 163
  “I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.” - J. G. Ballard
  3 weeks ago

• "A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction."

  
  Daily Cow — Authority: 163
  “A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.” - J. G. Ballard
  3 weeks ago

• Will Self, My hero J. G. Ballard

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 130
  Will Self has written a short piece in todays Guardian newspaper, expressing his deep admiration for British writer J. G. Ballard who passed away earlier this year. The article anticipates what would have been Ballards 79th birthday on 15 November, and declares him the last great English avatar of the avant garde. ...
  3 weeks ago

• J. G. Ballard on Blue Velvet

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 130
  British author J. G. Ballard on David Lynchs Blue Velvet  (originally published in Time Out  in 1993): Blue Velvet is, for me, the best film of the 1980s - surreal, voyeuristic, subversive and even a little corrupt in its manipulation of the audience. In short, the perfect dish for the jaded palates of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• book review – The Drought – JG Ballard

  
  inside books — Authority: 116
  “…he now felt that the white deck of the river was carrying them all in the opposite direction, forward into zones of time future where the unresolved residues of the past would appear smoothed and rounded, muffled by the detritus of time, like images in a clouded mirror. Perhaps these residues were the sole ...
  4 weeks ago

• David Bowie: 40 Years

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 130
  Graeme Thomson reflects on the musical career of David Bowie, spanning four decades: In some respects "Space Oddity" was a false dawn, widely regarded as an opportunistic novelty number timed to coincide with the moon shot. Bowie, meanwhile, never felt at ease playing the winsome acoustic troubadour. Bored by the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Hi-Lo Astro: Haute Scorpio – Low Scorpio

  
  Mystic Medusa — Authority: 480
  J.G. Ballard HAUTE SCORPIO IS INSCRUTABLE Mysterious by nature, Scorpio is the only sign which can carry off a chic yet compulsive-obsessive aura. Do they have hobbies? Stuff that they just dabble in? No. They tend toward deep and abiding interests in subjects to do with sex, the occult, and other people’s money. ...
  6 weeks ago

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