J.G. Ballard: London’s 28th Most Erotic Writer
By Simon Sellars • Apr 22nd, 2008 •
Category: Ballardosphere, Toby Litt, sexual politics, speed & violence, statistics
It’s official: Ballard is the 28th most erotic writer in London.
Archive for the ‘Toby Litt’ Category
The Wind from Nowhere is now a wind from somewhere
By Simon Sellars • Sep 2nd, 2007 •
Category: Ballardosphere, Toby Litt
From the Observer: Nicola Barker Toby Litt ‘critically rehabilitates’ (to use the parlance of our times) J.G. Ballard’s first novel…
[ via Feuilleton ]
Sunday September 2, 2007
The Observer
How did we miss these? Far from the fame and glamour of the Booker and bestsellers is a forgotten world of literary treasures - brilliant but underrated novels [...]
‘The Stuff of Now’: Toby Litt on J.G. Ballard
By Gwyn Richards & Simon Sellars • May 2nd, 2007 •
Category: Australia, Toby Litt, consumerism, interviews, invisible literature, literature, medical procedure, suburbia
Interview by Gwyn Richards & Simon Sellars
Toby Litt is an English novelist who published his first book, Adventures in Capitalism (a volume of short stories), in 1996, when he was 28. He’s since won praise for the dark inventiveness of his writing, a combination of cinematic prose, apocalyptic imagery and sharp wit that freely [...]
Ballardosphere Wrap Up, Part 2
By Simon Sellars • Mar 19th, 2007 •
Category: Ballardosphere, Toby Litt, academia, audio
+ The programme for the University of East Anglia’s two-day J.G. Ballard conference on 5 & 6 May 2007 is now available as a PDF. It looks thorough and exhaustive, with a wide spread of topics — a tribute to Ballard’s appeal. The conference should be a cracker; let’s hope the UAE also onlines the [...]
