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...Even folks who have been reluctant, they are shoulder to shoulder with him,” says Brian Ballard, a Florida-based lobbyist close to Trump....
...Reminiscent of Ballard at his most experimental, the novel is a fascinating exercise in sustained surrealism but its poetic imprecision won’t be to everyone’s taste....
...Spotlighting stories of other planets, fantasy utopias, gothic and dystopian fiction by authors including HG Wells, Philip K Dick, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr, and William Gibson, Wessells highlights how...
...And in James Graham’s epic new play, it’s clear he’s talking about far more than football....
...But there’s a get-out-of-execution-free card: James can have a “double” of himself made and killed in his place....
...And still with mature male American writers: a nod for This Train (No Exit, £9.99) by James Grady....
...“That is starting to be challenged,” says Tamsin Ballard, chief initiatives officer at the UN Principles for Responsible Investment....
...Can the once unassailable American writer James Ellroy win back the legion of fans who have deserted him? After such astonishing crime epics as L.A....
...The Poet Laureate of Dystopia, JG Ballard, predicted that by about now private cars would not be allowed on public roads....
...After all, the so-called New Wave that swept over SF in the 1960s and ’70s arose in opposition to the genre’s prevailing conservative orthodoxy, with the likes of JG Ballard and Michael Moorcock using experimental...
...Fintech Mr Chopra’s CFPB could prove a new force in financial technology where, according to Ed Mills, policy analyst at Raymond James, “there is a battle brewing” as various agencies engage in a “turf...
...If there is a cinematic touchstone it might be The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Jacques Audiard’s 2005 French remake of James Toback’s Fingers, about a pianist with a sideline in extortion....
...My personal style signifiers are a suit, usually from Richard James, Paul Smith or sometimes Prada, if I can afford it; black or brown suede loafers, also by Richard James; and a white or pale-blue shirt...
...Which American — played by Ryan Gosling in a 2018 film — did JG Ballard suggest would be the only 20th-century person remembered in 50,000 years?...
...When the young JG Ballard moved to postwar Britain, what he found was “Bucharest with a hangover”. An “exhausted ferret-like people” occupied a “wasteland” of “rubble” and “ration books”....
...Another artist resident, James Dunnett, noted the “breathtaking panorama” seen from the flats. “The drama of the changing sky was a constant source of wonder,” he wrote....
...bulk of the contributors were architects from the British brutalist avant-garde, including Alison and Peter Smithson, Colin St John Wilson (who would later design the British Library), Ernő Goldfinger, James...
...I am a huge fan of hers,” said Marjorie Peerce, an attorney at Ballard Spahr....
..., through to Kapuscinski and the King James Bible, with hefty doses of Raymond Chandler and Cormac McCarthy among the 80 writers listed....
...The idea of the residential tower as an emblem of social failure is deeply rooted, not just in Britain, but across the west; “an environment built, not for man, but for man’s absence”, as JG Ballard put...
...Taking its cue — as well as its title — from JG Ballard’s 1962 debut novel The Drowned World, the book offers 15 memorable, distinctive visions of Earth after climate change has exerted its grip....
...Next we’ll be at JG Ballard’s favourite spot: the Heathrow Hilton....
...In the 1960s and 1970s he edited New Worlds magazine, publishing authors such as JG Ballard and Thomas Pynchon. What was your childhood or earliest ambition? To write and edit....
...The London to which Bowie was born in 1947 was a “wasteland of poverty, ration books and grotesque social division”, in the vivid account of JG Ballard, who had just arrived from China as a boy....
...James Bond! A haunted house! A man on Mars!...
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