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    Aug 7, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Review: 'My American Unhappiness' by Dean Bakopoulos

    My American Unhappiness
    Los Angeles Times
    My American Unhappiness A Novel Dean Bakopoulos Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 277 pp., $24 Whichever way you turn, beacons of American inauthenticity and political dysfunction are all around you, clamoring for your head space, your dollars, your...

    Tags: Noah Baumbach, Gays and Lesbians, Satire (genre), Comedy (genre), Car Repair and Maintenance Tips

    2. Jul 24, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Book Review: 'Millennium People' by J.G. Ballard

    When J.G. Ballard died in April 2009, he left behind a body of work dominated by a few key ideas. First were the erotic possibilities of violence, as embodied by his 1973 novel "Crash." Equally important was his sense of suburban life as not just soul-dead but also dangerous — where beneath a surface layer of conformity we find ugliness and rage. It's easy, in an age of workplace violence and school shootings, to take such a vision for granted; what Ballard is reflecting back at us is the essence of ourselves. But when he first explored these concepts in the 1960s, it was a departure as radical in its way as any of that era.
    Los Angeles Times Book Critic
    When J.G. Ballard died in April 2009, he left behind a body of work dominated by a few key ideas. First were the erotic possibilities of violence, as embodied by his 1973 novel "Crash." Equally important was his sense of suburban life as not just soul-...

    Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Health and Medical Professionals, Psychologists, Science and Technology, Science

    3. Jul 12, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Carmageddon reading list: 19 books about the joys and terrors of transportation

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    Carmaggedon: your 19-book reading list. Hope it's enough to keep you busy while stuck in traffic....
    4. May 22, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Summer reading: Fiction, poetry

    Busy Monsters William Giraldi W.W. Norton: $24.95 When a mediocre writer's bride-to-be leaves him to search for a legendary giant squid, he treks across the continent seeking counsel from nefarious creatures on how to win back her affections. (August)...

    Tags: Crimes, Baghdad (Iraq), Poetry, Science and Technology, Germany

    5. May 16, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Album review: Moby's 'Destroyed'

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    In his liner notes, Moby states that foreign cities, late at night when he struggled with insomnia, provided the perfect backdrop for the creation of “Destroyed.” It’s easy to picture: the musician, alone in the sterile hotel rooms of...
    6. Jun 14, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  6. J.G. Ballard had a secret archive after all

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    When asked, author J.G. Ballard told interviewers that he had no papers to be donated. "There are no Ballard archives," he said plainly in 1982. "I never keep letters, reviews, research materials. Every page is a fresh start." Now we......
    7. Apr 20, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. J.G. Ballard dies at 78; British science fiction writer

    J.G. Ballard, one of the most inventive of the new wave of British science fiction writers to emerge in the 1960s who was best known for the autobiographical novel "Empire of the Sun," died Sunday, his agent said. He was 78.
    Times Staff And Wire Reports
    J.G. Ballard, one of the most inventive of the new wave of British science fiction writers to emerge in the 1960s who was best known for the autobiographical novel "Empire of the Sun," died Sunday, his agent said. He was 78. He had been ill "for...

    Tags: David Cronenberg, Death, Cults and Sects, Obituaries, Science and Technology

    8. Apr 20, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Visionary with a sharp edge

    If J.G. Ballard -- the visionary British novelist who died Sunday of prostate cancer at age 78 -- ends up being remembered, it will likely be as a science fiction writer who aspired to use genre as a vehicle for art. That's true enough, in a certain small-bore manner, but it's ultimately reductive, a way of categorizing Ballard that his entire career stood against.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    If J.G. Ballard -- the visionary British novelist who died Sunday of prostate cancer at age 78 -- ends up being remembered, it will likely be as a science fiction writer who aspired to use genre as a vehicle for art. That's true enough, in a certain...

    Tags: David Cronenberg, Death, Ronald Reagan, Science, Science and Technology

    9. Apr 26, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Duke Elric: A cross between Conan and Camus

    Maybe it's the books we read when we're young that stick with us the longest. That's the time when books not only excite us, but seem to tell us about ourselves and our futures. As a teenager I read (wallowed in and feasted upon, really) Tolkien, Evelyn Waugh, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, "Great Expectations" and "David Copperfield," "Crime and Punishment," "The Great Gatsby," P.G. Wodehouse and Kafka. A predictably unstructured and non-academic bag, I guess. I also read, with mounting glee, and seized from different corners of the bookstore when my mother wasn't watching, the paperbacks of Michael Moorcock, especially those concerning the doomed prince Elric.
    Maybe it's the books we read when we're young that stick with us the longest. That's the time when books not only excite us, but seem to tell us about ourselves and our futures. As a teenager I read (wallowed in and feasted upon, really) Tolkien, Evelyn...

    Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Jane Austen, Dashiell Hammett, Death, Social Issues

    10. Apr 21, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Robert Silverberg, science fiction elder statesman

    Right about then, the Age of Aquarius seemed to be reaching an apocalyptic conclusion: Amid campus riots, a contentious war and political assassinations, it was hard not to feel fatalistic. And Robert Silverberg, a New York writer who'd recently...

    Tags: Education, Science and Technology, Ray Bradbury, Superman (fictional character), Health and Safety at School

    11. Dec 6, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Surreal worlds of J.G. Ballard, 'Armitage Family Stories' and more

    1Comfortably over a thousand pages, &quot;The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard" <em style="b">"The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard" </em>(Norton: 1,216 pp., $35) isn't just a doorstop but the door itself, a portal to the worlds that Ballard (who died this year) hatched in his fictions. In the relentless consumer society of "The Subliminal Man," a giant ad is vandalized and revealed to be flashing the words "BUY NOW BUY NOW BUY NOW BUY NOW BUY NEW CAR NOW NEW CAR NOW NEW CAR NOW," followed by "YES" 10 times in a row. In the surreal "Vermilion Sands," artists make singing sculptures and poets plug commands into a Verse-Transcriber.
    1Comfortably over a thousand pages, "The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard" "The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard" (Norton: 1,216 pp., $35) isn't just a doorstop but the door itself, a portal to the worlds that Ballard (who died this year) hatched in his...

    Tags: Tennessee Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Passenger Cars, Family, Animals

    12. Aug 9, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Siren's Call: A talk with Michael Moorcock

    <i>Where do you begin with Michael Moorcock? His career and background range as far and wide as his characters do across the multiverse. Novelist, short story writer, editor (of New Worlds and other publications), journalist, <a href=&quot;http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/artist/Moorcock,%20Michael/a/Michael%20Moorcock.htm ">musician</a> -- and, in the case of this column, a very gracious interviewee. His detailed answers below, like those found on his website, <a href="http://www.multiverse.org/">Moorcock's Miscellany</a>, seem designed to help enthusiasts and scholars alike to a better understanding of his multiverse.</i>
    Where do you begin with Michael Moorcock? His career and background range as far and wide as his characters do across the multiverse. Novelist, short story writer, editor (of New Worlds and other publications), journalist, musician -- and, in the case...

    Tags: Crimes, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Science and Technology, Peter Jackson, Book

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