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Empire of the Sun

hotlog wrote 3 days ago: Roundly dismissed as one of Steven Spielberg’s least successful efforts, this very underrated … more »

Tags: Christian Bale, Christian Bale, Empire of the Sun, empire of the sun christian bale, Hiro Arai, Peter Copley, Ray Charleson, sibi blazic, The Last Emperor

Recycled Reading No More

Cindie wrote 1 week ago: My friend told me about this great used bookstore nearby called “Recycled Reading”.  Yo … more »

Tags: purchases, Books, BookStores, disappointment, recycling, Used Books, Barbara Kingsolver, Hanif Kureishi, janice galloway

my mind evolved behind my eyes/same position

thingling wrote 3 weeks ago: So out of touch with books, really, I’ve devoted endless hours to Card’s series of Ender … more »

Tags: criticism, ender's game, gunslinger, hesse, Jae Lee, lies inc., Neal Stephenson, orson scott card, Philip K. Dick

Eat the poor12 comments

dcairns wrote 1 month ago: Victoria Vetri/Angela Dorian/whatever she’s calling herself this week enjoys the black meat o … more »

Tags: film, Literature, crash, SAM FULLER, When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, Empire of the Sun, Cambridge cannibalism

Branislav Kropilak: Prague photographer reveals a rare urban beauty

seandodson wrote 1 month ago: Portraying the city as if it was a huge machine, Prague-based photographer Branislav Kropilak capt … more »

Tags: Culture, technology, Art, Photography, advertising, Branislav Kropilak, Urban, city

Literature at the Labs2 comments

Doktor Holocaust wrote 2 months ago: Inspired by Petit Muse’s own currently-reading post, I figured I’d share some titles fro … more »

Tags: Memes, fandom, Reviews, SubGenius, Books, Chuck Palahniuk, Clive Barker, haruki murakami, Novels

19. Cocaine Nights - JG Ballard

jacquelinekvz wrote 2 months ago: Having never heard of this book, the title and cover caught my eye when my friend was reading it, so … more »

Tags: Books, Reading, cocaine nights

Love & Napalm3 comments

rottenhat wrote 3 months ago: The final chapter of JG Ballard’s recent memoir reveals that he has terminal cancer. I think … more »

Tags: Books

Writers And Their Influences

rottenhat wrote 3 months ago: “I usually had a strong scotch and soda when I had driven the children to school and sat down … more »

Tags: Quotations

JG Ballard...as a Children's Cartoon?1 comment

polygoncastles wrote 3 months ago: Since there’s never anything good on TV during the day, I switched it to the Cartoon Network, … more »

Tags: general geekery, Art, Science Fiction, TV, Concrete Island, Rodney the Squirrel, Squirrel Boy, adaptation of novel

The Sneaky Art of Storytelling

Mike Poole wrote 4 months ago: John Irving, J.G. Ballard and the Best of Genre Fiction Stories rarely do what we expect of them. … more »

Tags: Biography, Books, Reviews, Science Fiction, Reading, John Irving, Storytelling

Psychopathology2 comments

Rodger Jacobs wrote 4 months ago: I watched an elderly woman patient helping the orderly to serve the afternoon tea … She began … more »

Tags: Writers and Writing, Writers, writing, Literature, the atrocity exhibition, Psychopathology

JG Ballard: The Oracle of Shepperton 1 comment

seandodson wrote 4 months ago: JG Ballard Originally uploaded by jadc01 He has been credited with foreseeing the Regan administrat … more »

Tags: Culture, Future, Canary Wharf, Cinema, felini, film, gated community, Literature, Ronald Regan

nowhere

coromandal wrote 4 months ago: (photograph by Todd Hido) “… the suburbs are the tundra, and at night the effect is … more »

Tags: Brave New World, World, Violence, Luc Sante, landscape, suburb, Night, airplane, Todd Hido

J.G. Ballard On Writing6 comments

Rodger Jacobs wrote 4 months ago: The author of Crash and The Atrocity Exhibition writes: “The novels of Stephen King are much c … more »

Tags: Writers and Writing, Writers, writing, Books, Literature, Stephen King, Hitler, modern communications, Mass media

another submerged future -- j g ballard's drowned world

insomnihack wrote 4 months ago: “Just as psychoanalysis reconstructs the original traumatic situation in order to release the … more »

Tags: WorDs, Quotes, Ideas!, Updates, writing, Writers, drowned world, j. g. ballard, Dystopia

Issue 3 is online1 comment

theshortreview wrote 6 months ago: A New Year, ten new reviews, author interviews, a sneak preview of short story collections forthcomi … more »

Tags: Blogroll, General, site updates, Anthologies, Books, Fiction, Jay Merill, Literature, new year

Love In A Colder Climate - The Final Cut

nickeoaddiction wrote 7 months ago:             Lucile McCabe, my assignment for the evening, lived in the Spanish quar … more »

Tags: nickeo writes, 18 SX, AIDS

Dislocations: Empire of the Sun

Terry wrote 8 months ago: I am not sure why I have avoided J.G. Ballard’s 1984 autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun … more »

Tags: W.G. Sebald, Book Reviews


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