Writers: J. G. Ballard

An online guide to the life and work of J. G. Ballard

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

J. G. Ballard

Literature

Browsing the J. G. Ballard Archives
J. G. Ballard Manuscripts at the British Library
Ballard, Bourgeoisie and Violent Crime
Ballard: 'Freud was a born storyteller'
J. G. Ballard on William S. Burroughs
'Inmate in the cosmic madhouse': Ballard on Burroughs
J. G. Ballard's Top Ten Writers
Artforum on J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard: How I Write
J. G. Ballard, Complete Short Stories
J. G. Ballard's Crash and Cocaine Nights
David B. Livingstone on J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard on the Disneyfication of Museums
Lars Iyer on Literature's Antagonistic Couples

Writers on Ballard

John Gray and Will Self on J. G. Ballard
Will Self: 'My hero, J. G. Ballard'
Will Self pays tribute to J. G. Ballard
Will Self on Ballard and Academia
Will Self on Literature and Visual Arts
Will Self on the influence of J. G. Ballard
Moorcock remembers J. G. Ballard
William Boyd on J. G. Ballard

Biography

Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J. G. Ballard 1967-2008
J. G. Ballard, Miracles of Life: From Shanghai to Shepperton
J. G. Ballard's Shepperton House for Sale
J. G. Ballard 1930-2009
Bea Ballard on her late father, J. G. Ballard
Clare Walsh on her relationship with J. G. Ballard
Writers interviewed in The Paris Review
J. G. Ballard: The Inner Man
Review: John Baxter's J. G. Ballard Biography

Film and Television

The South Bank Show: J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard on Blue Velvet 
Christian Bale on J. G. Ballard
Chris Petit on J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard on Special Objects
The Unmade Films of J. G. Ballard
David Cronenberg on J. G. Ballard

Art & Photography

Screaming Popes: J. G. Ballard on Francis Bacon
Ballard: Portraits of the Artist