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Hitchens on J.G. Ballard
01.13.2010
11:06 pm
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Wonderful short essay from Christopher Hitchens, writing about British novelist J.G. Ballard on the occasion of the publication of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard.

From The Atlantic:

For all that, Ballard is arguably best-known to a wide audience because of his relatively ?

Posted by Richard Metzger
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01.13.2010
11:06 pm
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Notes From The J.G. Ballard Memorial
12.03.2009
05:50 pm
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Spotted at the Ballardian, Rick McGrath‘s great, first-person account of what went down at the recent memorial for J.G. Ballard on what would have been the “Bard of Shepperton’s?

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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12.03.2009
05:50 pm
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Cash For Clunkers, Stat!
08.04.2009
02:15 pm
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Let’s hope Congress throws a bone to that Cash For Clunkers program, fast!  In what feels like a further sign-of-our-Ballardian-times, My Interesting Files has posted these photos of unsold cars from around the world.  The sheer acreage of unclaimed autos is staggering.  As are the numbers behind them: Sales of new cars in the UK have slumped to a 12-year low, and the number of cars rolling off production lines fell, at the tail of last year, 47.5% to just 53,823.

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Unsold Cars From Around The World

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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08.04.2009
02:15 pm
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