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The Reading Life: J.G. Ballard's stormy weather
Jacket CopyDavid L. Ulin reflects on "The Drowned World" by JG Ballard, out in a new 50th anniversary edition.... -
Carmageddon reading list: 19 books about the joys and terrors of transportation
Jacket CopyCarmaggedon: your 19-book reading list. Hope it's enough to keep you busy while stuck in traffic.... -
Album review: Moby's 'Destroyed'
Pop & HissIn his liner notes, Moby states that foreign cities, late at night when he struggled with insomnia, provided the perfect backdrop for the creation of “Destroyed.” It’s easy to picture: the musician, alone in the sterile hotel rooms of... -
J.G. Ballard had a secret archive after all
Jacket CopyWhen asked, author J.G. Ballard told interviewers that he had no papers to be donated. "There are no Ballard archives," he said plainly in 1982. "I never keep letters, reviews, research materials. Every page is a fresh start." Now we...... -
'Oblivion': Sci-fi pastiche doesn't come together, reviews say
These days it seems rare to encounter a big sci-fi movie that's not a remake, a sequel, a prequel or an adaptation of a well-known property (whether a novel, a comic book or even a toy). The new Tom Cruise film "Oblivion" is an exception: This story of...Tags: Prometheus (movie), Entertainment, Tom Cruise, Tron Legacy (movie) , Chicago Tribune
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'Artful' by Ali Smith reads slapdash
At least since whoever wrote "The Arabian Nights" invented postmodernism, we have been visited by metafiction — literature folding in on itself to address its own fictionality. At its best we get "Don Quixote," "Tristram Shandy," Jorge Luis Borges'...
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Summer reading: Fiction, poetry
Busy Monsters William Giraldi W.W. Norton: $24.95 When a mediocre writer's bride-to-be leaves him to search for a legendary giant squid, he treks across the continent seeking counsel from nefarious creatures on how to win back her affections. (August)...Tags: Germany, Poetry, Crimes, Lower East Side, Human Interest
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Book Review: 'Millennium People' by J.G. Ballard
![When J.G. Ballard died in April 2009, he left behind a body of work dominated by a few key ideas. First were the erotic possibilities of violence, as embodied by his 1973 novel "Crash." Equally important was his sense of suburban life as not just soul-dead but also dangerous — where beneath a surface layer of conformity we find ugliness and rage. It's easy, in an age of workplace violence and school shootings, to take such a vision for granted; what Ballard is reflecting back at us is the essence of ourselves. But when he first explored these concepts in the 1960s, it was a departure as radical in its way as any of that era.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-07/63392676-21112728.jpg "When J.G. Ballard died in April 2009, he left behind a body of work dominated by a few key ideas. First were the erotic possibilities of violence, as embodied by his 1973 novel "Crash.\" Equally important was his sense of suburban life as not just soul-dead but also dangerous — where beneath a surface layer of conformity we find ugliness and rage. It's easy, in an age of workplace violence and school shootings, to take such a vision for granted; what Ballard is reflecting back at us is the essence of ourselves. But when he first explored these concepts in the 1960s, it was a departure as radical in its way as any of that era.")
Los Angeles Times Book CriticWhen J.G. Ballard died in April 2009, he left behind a body of work dominated by a few key ideas. First were the erotic possibilities of violence, as embodied by his 1973 novel "Crash." Equally important was his sense of suburban life as not just soul-...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Juvenile Delinquency, Health, Human Interest, Don DeLillo
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Don't drive, won't drive
Special to the TimesI'M an English guy who's been in L.A. for 16 years. I work here. My children were born here. And still I don't drive. Some people find this … puzzling. "But why?" they ask. "Why don't you drive?" "I'm really not sure," I say. "I've spent thousands of...Tags: Germany, Scarlett Johansson, Automotive Equipment, Transportation, Argentina
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Review: 'My American Unhappiness' by Dean Bakopoulos
Los Angeles TimesMy American Unhappiness A Novel Dean Bakopoulos Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 277 pp., $24 Whichever way you turn, beacons of American inauthenticity and political dysfunction are all around you, clamoring for your head space, your dollars, your...Tags: Entertainment, Minority Groups, Gays and Lesbians, Don DeLillo, Starbucks Corp.
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J.G. Ballard dies at 78; British science fiction writer
![J.G. Ballard, one of the most inventive of the new wave of British science fiction writers to emerge in the 1960s who was best known for the autobiographical novel "Empire of the Sun," died Sunday, his agent said. He was 78.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2009-04/46386988-19204505.jpg "J.G. Ballard, one of the most inventive of the new wave of British science fiction writers to emerge in the 1960s who was best known for the autobiographical novel "Empire of the Sun,\" died Sunday, his agent said. He was 78.")
Times Staff And Wire ReportsJ.G. Ballard, one of the most inventive of the new wave of British science fiction writers to emerge in the 1960s who was best known for the autobiographical novel "Empire of the Sun," died Sunday, his agent said. He was 78. He had been ill "for...Tags: Science Fiction (genre), Entertainment, Science and Technology, Prostate Cancer, United Kingdom
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Visionary with a sharp edge
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf J.G. Ballard -- the visionary British novelist who died Sunday of prostate cancer at age 78 -- ends up being remembered, it will likely be as a science fiction writer who aspired to use genre as a vehicle for art. That's true enough, in a certain...Tags: Science Fiction (genre), Science and Technology, Los Angeles Times, Prostate Cancer, John F. Kennedy
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