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• 22 People Who Died In 2009 & A Couple Who Didnt

  
  MamaPop.com — Authority: 536
  Skull For a lot of people who started out alive in January, 2009 sucked because they died. I guess we made out pretty good, didnt we? Being not dead is the way to be. So heres a list of the best people who died in 2009. That sounded awkward. I dont know how else to say it. If youre dead and didnt make the cut, Im ...
  2 days ago

• Supposedly contemptible components

  
  Disambiguation — Authority: 431
  Zadie Smith on Ballard (in her ceaselessly quoteworthy Guardian piece/book excerpt in response to David Shields Reality Hunger ): This year Ballards stories in particular have been a revelation to me, being at once well made, full of the supposedly contemptible components – plot, setting, character – and ...
  1 week ago

• More Mail

  
  Jim Steel's Cave of Doom — Authority: 125
  …and today the latest British SF Association mailing arrived. There’s only one story with this one, but it’s a big one. A novel, in fact: Colin Harvey’s Winter Song , courtesy of Angry Robot. I have no idea if all of the mailings contain the same novel, but I’m very, very happy with this one. Vector 261 ...
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• J.G. Ballard as father

  
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  "So in between school runs, ironing school ties and cooking sausages and mashed potato, he wrote his novels and short stories – one minute conjuring up wild dystopias, the next watching Blue Peter ....The watching of television was not rationed (unlike most of my friends) and was welcomed as an interesting vehicle ...
  2 weeks ago

• Disjecta: This weeks links

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 124
  An example of Austin Kleons Newspaper Blackout poetry Literature: J. G. Ballard : Simon Reynolds speaks to Ballardian.com J. G. Ballard : Issue four of new journal, Kill Author , focusses on Ballard and his work J. G. Ballard : Jacob Silverman on J. G. Ballard and Vladimir Nabokov William S. Burroughs : ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Would-be Murderer, the Modest "Amateur", and the Brilliant Single Dad

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 429
  If she had not become a writer, she would have been a murderer, reckons Joan Schenkar , whose biography The Talented Miss Highsmith : The Secret Life and Serious Art was published this week. Calling her our most Freudian novelist, Schenker explains that : To her, love and death are closely related. She tends to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bea Ballard on her father, J. G. Ballard

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 124
  Bea Ballard has written a moving tribute to her father, British author J. G. Ballard, who passed away earlier this year: In 2009 the world lost one of its most original and brilliant authors, JG Ballard. But my siblings and I lost our father, our dearest Daddy. To the world he was this unique writer, with a huge ...
  2 weeks ago

• Disjecta: This weeks links

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 124
  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 weeks ago

• Book News: about Short Stories, and Mentioning J.G. Ballard, Raymond Carver, Orhan Pamuk and others

  
  WEALTH OF IDEAS — Authority: 420
  There is general agreement, in my book circles, that 2009 is the year of the short story. Of course, this is not to say that we are not prepared to accept 2010 as a short story year if it becomes one. I asked the question somewhere, perhaps in one of my classes, about why it would make sense for 2009 to be a short ...
  3 weeks ago

• Disjecta: This weeks links

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 124
  (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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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

  
  WEALTH OF IDEAS — Authority: 420
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

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