Ballardian

Over at the J.G. Ballard Yahoo Group, prominent Ballard scholar David Pringle informs us that the new 2006 paperback printing of JGB’s Empire of the Sun (the “Harper Collins Perennial Classic” edition) contains a new interview with JGB at the back of the book. As David says, “This covers mainly old autobiographical ground, about WWII, but it’s evidently new because it contains a passing mention of the 2005 New Orleans flood disaster”.

The interview goes for six pages, and there’s also a reprint of Ballard’s article ‘End of My War’ (1995), which, David notes, ’should already be familiar to anyone who’s got a copy of A User’s Guide to the Millennium‘.