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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.... -
'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: Ralph Ellison, Crimes, Los Angeles, Iowa, Baghdad (Iraq)
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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: Rebellions, England, Real Estate, Juvenile Delinquency, Science
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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: Los Angeles, Scarlett Johansson, Road Transportation, Travel, James Spader
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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: Comedy (genre), Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Starbucks Corp., Don DeLillo, Gays and Lesbians
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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 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: Children, Science Fiction (genre), Prostate Cancer, The New York Times, Cults and Sects
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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), Prostate Cancer, French Literature, Science, Fiction
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Giving Angela Carter her due
By Richard Rayner "A good writer can make you believe time stands still. Yet the end of all stories, even if the writer forbears to mention it, is death," wrote the English writer Angela Carter, who died 16 years ago this month. At the time Carter was...Tags: Patrick Hamilton, Crimes, Comedy (genre), Clark Gable, Theodore Roosevelt
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Ground level
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer| This is the first in an occasional series of walking tours that The Times' architecture critic will be taking with writers, artists, designers and others who see the L.A. cityscape in unusual or provocative ways. On an L.A. wavelength * To urban blogger...Tags: Arts and Culture, Education, Colleges and Universities, Travel, Fiction
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