Dedicated to the work & life of J.G. Ballard: November 15, 1930 - April 19, 2009
Hello, and welcome to my JG Ballard collection and archive. I think I have all of JGB's print output from 1951 to the present. This link will take you to the Terminal Collection index page, where you can see all JG's output in one file -- The Terminal Timeline -- or go to specific years.JG Ballard Interviews
This bibliography lists over 150 JG Ballard interviews over the years.Various Ballard Bibliographies
Start with The James Graham Ballard Secondary Literature Online Bibliography by Umberto Rossi. Over 150 essays and articles from over 140 writers and critics are currently listed. Other lists include the complete bibliography of all of JGB's short stories, JGB's early secondary sources, and Dave Pringle's fascinating study of what JGB read as a youth.JG Ballard's Shanghai Days
Lots of photos, videos and my "travelogue" of finding and visiting JGB's childhood home in Shanghai in September 2007. Also many photos of JGB's Shanghai neighbourhood and childhood haunts, the Lunghua Camp, and a whole section of interviews with other Lunghua internees.Deep Ends
Here you'll find little oddities, stories, reviews, maxims, notes, etc, from or about The Man that have popped up along the way, but were too odd to list on their own.Non-Fiction by JG Ballard
From 1963 to 1971 JGB wrote a number of "editorials" explaining his position on "Inner Space". Here they are, as well as a number of old journalistic pieces that are fascinating.Articles & Essays About JG Ballard
Scholarly and interesting articles from such critical luminaries as Scott Bukatman, Paul Crosthwaite, Mike Holliday, Sarah Blandy, Matt Smith, Jerome Tarshis, John Boston, David Pringle, Benjamin Noys, Peter Brigg, Richard Walls and Luc Sante. To name a few.The Complete Run of David Pringle's News from The Sun and JGB News
David Pringle has generously allowed all 25 issues of his JGB newsletters to be reprinted. They stretch from 1981 to 1996, and report on a fascinating period of JGB's career. Text transcribed by Mike Holliday and David Pringle. JG Ballard: Autopsy Of The New Millennium Exhibition in Barcelona's CCCB Museum
Hola, and buenos dias from Barcelona. It's 24 July 2008 and I’m currently standing in the Carrer de Montalegre, a narrow street outside the ancient CCCB Museum.The JG Ballard Memorial at the Tate Modern
My full report on this heartwarming event has been posted as Letter From London at Simon Sellar's Ballardian site, but this is an excuse to post more of the photos I took during the mingling part after the formal ceremonies were complete. Yes, quite a few name brands showed up.JG Ballard Short Stories Dramatized on The Vanishing Point
In 1988, Canada's national radio corporation broadcast a series of 30-minute radio dramas, based on the short stories of JG Ballard, for its long-running program, "The Vanishing Point".The Shanghai To Shepperton International Conference on JG Ballard
This conference was held at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, on Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th May 2007. I was there with my camera & recorder, and managed to catch a number of very interesting presentations.The Ballardian Videos of Jesús Olmo
It is always an exciting and happy time to introduce and help disseminate the work of a young artist entranced with and influenced by the ideas of JG Ballard. | POSTED: 16 October 2012 1993 JG Ballard interview with Eleanor Wachtel of the CBC... and, JG reads The Enormous Space! Who knew? Turns out  CBC Radio One’s Writers & Company has an interview with, and a short story by J.G Ballard. Starting off with an interesting interview -- The Kindness of Women had recently been published -- by the CBC's Eleanor Wachtel, we once again hear the story of much of Ballard’s history, including how he found Science Fiction in Canada, at an RCAF Station in Moose Jaw. After the interview Ballard himself reads his short story, The Enormous Space, from the War Fever collection. Hear more... |
|||
 JG Ballard WebLinks Ballardian Simon Sellars. The Man. JG Ballard: A Collector's Guide Mike Holliday. The Sleuth. Mike shows and tells with tips for anyone interested in collecting books, stories, and other material by and about JGB. The JG Ballard Concordance Mike Bonsall. The Scanner. An amazing site in which Mike's scanned every word used by JGB in all his short stories and novels. Yes, all two million of them! JGB Chat Group Join in the fun, or voyeuristically eavesdrop on a buncha JGB fans. RE/Search Publications V. Vale has lots of great Ballard books. jgballard.com Chris Mitchell. The Link. Dan O'Hara Dan teaches literature & philosophy at a university in Germany. JG Ballard: 20th Century Chronicler Jim Goddard runs this site as an offshoot to his Solaris bookstore, but it doesn't look like he's paid much attention to it recently. 99 Stella Vista BallardoTube Cronenberg’s Crash Who2 Profile flickr Myspace Scriptorium Wikipedia The Metro-Centre jgballard.ca was born on March 4, 2009 and is administered by Rick McGrath |
| POSTED: 8 October 2012 Daytripping Ballardland  Join Saul Franks as he recalls his recent pilgrimage to the Shepperton house, street, town and general environs of JG Ballard. "Fictional associations transmute the mundane into the meaningful, fostering a search for significance in the minutest things. Probably one just can't help finding what one’s looking for, particularly when what one’s looking for are traces of the uncanny vision of a departed Surrealist psychopomp and shaman of the Surrey suburbs." Saul Franks finds lots of what he's looking for, and thankfully shares with us the traces he perceives. A great little story, complete with photos! Read more... |
|||
| POSTED: 21 September 2012 Extreme Metaphors now on sale... order yours today!  It's been a long time coming, but this long-anticipated collection of Ballard's seminal interviews is now available in the UK through the usual outlets. Edited by our longtime friends Dan O'Hara and Simon Sellars (of ballardian fame), they also contribute fore and aft essays. From the HarperCollins website: A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard’s greatest interviews... for the first time, ‘Extreme Metaphors’ collects the finest interviews of his career... cultural figureheads such as Will Self, Jon Savage, Iain Sinclair and John Gray, and collaborators like David Cronenberg, are a reminder of his wit and humanity, testament to Ballard’s profound worldliness as much as his otherworldly imagination. This collection is an indispensable tribute to one of recent history’s most incisive and original thinkers. |
|||
| POSTED: 25 July 2012 An Hour With Desmond Power  In July of 2012 I met with Lunghua Civilian Assembly Centre internee Desmond Power at his home in Vancouver, Canada. Desmond was born in Tientsin, Hopei Province, China, in 1923, and by 1937 Desmond and his family were caught up in the Japanese invasion of China. By 1942 Desmond had missed all his chances to leave China via Shanghai, and like so many other "foreign devils", he was collected and interned at a number of Japanese civilian camps, including Lunghua.Read more... |
|||
| POSTED: 19 January 2010 UPDATED: 9 April 2010 UPDATED: 3 September 2010 UPDATED: 9 May 2011 I  mages of the destruction of the JG Ballard Home in Shanghai. This started with two photographs of the reconstruction going on at the Ballard family home on Amherst Avenue in Shanghai, but recent update posts from Shanghai reveal the home has basically been destroyed, not redone. The latest update comes from Ben Lin, who visited the new restaurant and sent a number of new photos. See more... |
|||