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JGB News Online
Author: Simon Sellars • Oct 14th, 2008 •Category: Ballardosphere, invisible literature
A big inspiration for me in starting up this site was David Pringle’s JGB News, a newsletter first produced in 1981 under the title News from the Sun and lasting until 1996. To all intents and purposes, David is Ballard’s archivist: he’s been researching and writing about JGB’s work since the 70s and is probably the man who kickstarted ‘Ballard Studies’, if you like. Pringle compiled the essays and reviews that comprised Ballard’s A User’s Guide to the Millennium, and he has conducted around seven or eight lengthy interviews with JGB for various publications over the years.
In short, he had access. JGB News therefore benefitted from occasional input from the man himself in the form of JGB’s replies to Pringle’s letters, answering various queries in his genial style. Now, Rick McGrath and Mike Holliday have onlined JGB News in its entirety: 25 issues in all.
There’s so much of interest in these pages, but what is humbling for me in rereading these is the fact that many of the discoveries we as Ballard students are making today seem to have been made by Pringle a few decades ago. Nothing, it seems, is new(s) under (let alone, from) the sun.
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SO true! But I had to FIND and JOIN the JGB Yahoo “Group” and get on its mailing list to know that!
ALL JGB fans- check out the JGB Yahoo group and its LIVELY mailing list posters! Between Simon and them, that’s 100% up-to-the-minute coverage of Our Man. There IS no more and no better- ANYWHERE!