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| from "ReSearch 8-9: JG Ballard" (ReSearch, 1984), pp42-52] INTERVIEW BY GRAEME REVELL In the summer of 1983 JG Ballard was interviewed | GRev 1983 07 15 |
| In the summer of 1983 JG Ballard was interviewed by Graeme Revell, a writer, musician and conceptual artist behind SPK, an | GRev 1983 07 15 |
| we’re using. Obviously, our long interview, and the one that Graeme Revell just did with you, and the David Pringle interview | VVal 1983 08 29 |
| JG Ballard: Conversations" (ed. V Vale, ReSearch Publications, 2005) Interviewers: Graeme Revell and V Vale] JG Ballard, V Vale, Graeme Revell | GRVV 1985 05 00 |
| Interviewers: Graeme Revell and V Vale] JG Ballard, V Vale, Graeme Revell In the spring of 1985 V Vale visited JG | GRVV 1985 05 00 |
| the cameraman did not capture the sound! Also present were Graeme Revell, his wife Sinan and their infant son Robert -- | GRVV 1985 05 00 |
| but for these public appearances. You’ve got a lovely baby, Graeme. What can we give him to play with? Maybe a | GRVV 1985 05 00 |
| is very wealthy like America is. The contrast is enormous. [Graeme, Sinan and baby leave to get lunch.] JGB: The ReSearch | GRVV 1985 05 00 |
| or has needles hanging out of their arms -- VVal: Graeme was saying that there’s a heroin problem in London and | GRVV 1985 05 00 |
| knows what else -- even striptease in some London pubs. [Graeme, Sinan, and baby Robert return from eating at Kew Gardens | GRVV 1985 05 00 |
| doesn’t extend any deeper than that. JGB: Hmm. What is Graeme Revell doing now? The last time I heard from him | MPau 1987 00 00 |
| JG Ballard: Conversations" (ed. V Vale, ReSearch Publications, 2005). Interviewer: Graeme Revell] JG Ballard and Graeme Revell Born in New Zealand | GRev 2003 11 07 |
| Vale, ReSearch Publications, 2005). Interviewer: Graeme Revell] JG Ballard and Graeme Revell Born in New Zealand, Graeme Revell founded the pioneering | GRev 2003 11 07 |
| Revell] JG Ballard and Graeme Revell Born in New Zealand, Graeme Revell founded the pioneering "Industrial" music group SPK in the | GRev 2003 11 07 |
| date, besides working on projects such as television’s CSI Miami. Graeme interviewed JG Ballard by phone on November 7, 2003 -- | GRev 2003 11 07 |
| stated that JGB: Tell Vale to press the "delete" button! Graeme, listen, have we touched all the bases? My brain’s getting | GRev 2003 11 07 |
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| beautiful -- all these beautiful new gleaming buildings, despoiled by graffiti -- very strange. JGB: Yes, apparently the events I described | JSav 1978 08 00 |
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| view, what I’m interested in (thinking of High-Rise and social graft [sic]) is a New Conceptualization of Psychopathology, where you’re getting | JSav 1978 08 00 |
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| things on our behalf, and it’s like a third eye grafted onto us. RLou: You even integrate certain specifically cinematic techniques | RLou 1974 04 00 |
| Riviera, and for the all-too-credible cancer of violence that he grafted onto it. He has been visiting the South of France | GWhi 2001 11 08 |
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| May 1951, it accompanied Ballard’s story "The Violent Noon"] J Graham Ballard who shares the first prize of ten pounds with | Vars 1951 05 26 |
| writers but also accolades from Anthony Burgess, Kingsley Amis and Graham Greene) his new book will receive wide critical attention. And | DRee 1971 04 00 |
| reality and the inner world of thought and fantasy. James Graham Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930. When World War | JTar 1973 05 00 |
| one way of doing it. DPri: I think it was Graham Greene who compared The Crystal World with Heart of Darkness | JGDP 1975 01 04 |
| about conscious imitation: certainly not. DPri: Were you influenced by Graham Greene -- because he was influenced by Conrad? JGB: Probably | JGDP 1975 01 04 |
| away from all this sort of thing. I certainly admire Graham Greene a great deal. DPri: You studied medicine at Cambridge | JGDP 1975 01 04 |
| to late-Sixties British SF. Born in Shanghai in 1930, James Graham Ballard came to Britain at the end of World War | GDad 1979 11 02 |
| friend of one of Britain’s most influential imaginative writers, James Graham Ballard. Author of almost thirty books in twenty-five years, JG | RSmi 1980 01 18 |
| The Listener", 14 February 1980. Interviewer: Rodney Smith] DISASTERS James Graham Ballard, the science-fiction writer, was the subject of "Profile" (Radio | RSmi 1980 02 14 |
| and Apollinaire, yes, but they’re not, strictly speaking, surrealists. J Graham Ballard, who shares the first prize of £10 with DS | DPri 1982 02 00 |
| world. CBre: Is that the reason for your fondness of Graham Greene? JGB: Yes, I like Greene because you can breathe | CBre 1982 04 00 |
| for the forty-minute journey from London to Shepperton, portrayed James Graham Ballard broad-grinned behind a smashed windshield. I pulled out the | TGol 1982 04 00 |
| erected in some university library around the handkerchief in which Graham Greene blew his nose in 1957. One can have too | AJVV 1982 10 29 |
| stand for? JGB: "Well it’s no great secret, it’s James Graham". MFen: When did you first start writing? JGB: "Well I | MFen 1982 11 00 |
| Nude] 1 Min 26 Secs JGB: My name is James Graham Ballard and I’m a science-fiction writer. I was born in | SSco 1983 00 00 |
| social novel. There were one or two exceptions, such as Graham Greene whom I admired enormously and still do, who wrote | CToo 1984 09 00 |
| court. Here in the deep innocuousness of garden suburbia, James Graham Ballard, the glazed SF stylist, the countercultural adventurer, the poet-technologian | MAmi 1984 09 02 |
| -- and did before I started writing, of course -- Graham Greene very much, because he got out of the English | MHof 1984 09 27 |
| p20] War story earns Ballard his pot of gold James Graham Ballard, famous as a gripping science-fiction writer of biting wit | JMur 1984 11 04 |
| At home in a quiet, grey suburb of London, James Graham Ballard, fifty-four, looks far too well fed ever to have | DLDF 1985 01 28 |
| despite the critical acclaim accorded him by contemporaries such as Graham Greene and Kingsley Amis. Also, his approach to SF precluded | CSMu 1985 02 00 |
| say, Hemingway travelled in the Thirties, or Evelyn Waugh or Graham Greene in the Thirties or Forties -- that is out | GRVV 1985 05 00 |
| and run them down, pursue them to the end." James Graham Ballard was born in Shanghai, then an American zone of | JWil 1987 10 00 |
| experience is that early in the book, the young Jim Graham (which is, incidentally, what the author’s initials JG stand for | APir 1988 01 00 |
| China, during World War II. Like his fictional counterpart Jim Graham, Ballard never saw England until he was sixteen. He was | TMah 1988 01 10 |
| supra-natural (rather than "science") fiction. This the vintage JG (James Graham) Ballard, whose eleventh novel, The Day of Creation, just out | MFie 1988 03 11 |
| familiar with the science-fiction of Spielberg than that of James Graham Ballard. Not that this bothers the fifty-seven-year-old author, long-time resident | PRam 1988 04 00 |
| when he grows up." Ballard, whose initials stand for James Graham, also studied medicine as a young man, only to give | JFal 1988 04 01 |
| thing to surprise me. I simply had not pictured James Graham Ballard, the creator of the new Spielberg film "Empire of | JKup 1988 04 10 |
| about the science, mysticism and politics behind his fictions, James Graham Ballard (born 15 November, 1930 in Shanghai, China) is one | DPri 1990 03 00 |
| doom or the consumptive dandy they might conjure up. James Graham Ballard, fifty-nine, looks a bit like a vacationing Oxbridge don | LSan 1990 09 09 |
| out to be the most imaginative of HG Wells’s successors; Graham Greene said that his short-story collection, The Disaster Area, was | LSan 1990 09 09 |
| the autobiography of Shepperton’s greatest living surrealist, JG Ballard James Graham Ballard, the visionary Science-Fiction stylist, has lived for the past | ITho 1991 09 21 |
| attracted praise from Kingsley Amis (an old acquaintance), William Boyd, Graham Greene, Robert Nye and George MacBeth. For many readers, however | ITho 1991 09 21 |
| in the manner of Noel Coward". I hope not; James Graham Ballard is a magician of the contemporary scene -- and | ITho 1991 09 21 |
| Bigsby" Vol 1 (2000)] In Conversation with JG Ballard James Graham -- JG -- Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930 | CBig 1991 10 00 |
| extremely vivid imaginations. CBig: Why 'JG Ballard' and not 'James Graham'? JGB: I think that is my scientific training because scientists | CBig 1991 10 00 |
| until you’re sixty." Serene? Horizontal on his recliner chair, James Graham Ballard looks positively comatose. He doesn’t seem to have enough | DStr 1992 01 09 |
| only a pen. LFul: Who is your favourite author? JGB: Graham Greene. I admire his life. He left England and found | LFul 1992 05 26 |
| life and one’s set of mental attitudes. I never met Graham Greene but I enormously admired him for all sorts of | WSel 1994 09 08 |
| Within the fact packed pages of his speculative fiction, James Graham Ballard ("JG Ballard" to you) killed more people and caused | GPet 1996 00 00 |
| Dealey Plaza, Marilyn Monroe and Rosemary West, then it’s James Graham Ballard. I met him at his cosy suburban semi in | PKan 1996 01 09 |
| is set to be yet another big year for James Graham Ballard, the Shanghai-born British author who passed his sixty-fifth birthday | DPri 1996 02 00 |
| or in sympathy with -- in the way that, say, Graham Greene was able to collaborate with Carol Reed. It’s a | DPri 1996 02 00 |
| we do the same, if only to keep up. James Graham Ballard was born in 1930, in Shanghai, the only son | TSho 1997 03 17 |
| belatedly provided by Empire of the Sun, was simpler: James Graham Ballard had a childhood as surreal as anything dreamed up | JCow 1998 08 00 |
| beyond psychiatric help," the amiable, articulate, and consummately logical James Graham Ballard has managed pretty well: His output to date consists | DLiv 1999 08 01 |
| You have been championed by everyone from Kingsley Amis to Graham Greene and are regarded by many contemporary critics, academics and | SSha 2001 11 00 |
| in the Sunday Times. But this was long before Dan Graham did it. They advertised Princess Margaret’s armpit, an angle between | PDod 2003 09 16 |
| of the time were, you know -- John Piper and Graham Sutherland -- who didn’t seem to explore the world. PDod | PDod 2003 09 16 |
| because in many ways England had lost the war." James Graham Ballard went on to study medicine at King’s College, Cambridge | DWil 2003 09 21 |
| a serious consideration for the seventy-three-year-old British author, JG (James Graham) Ballard. Since his entry into the world of fiction, particularly | ZAbb 2003 11 01 |
| VBen: Which writers and artists have most influenced you? JGB: Graham Greene was a big influence; Kafka; and the Surrealist painters | VBen 2004 03 00 |
| 7. Catch-22, Joseph Heller JGB: 8. Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene JGB: 9. 1984, George Orwell JGB: 10. Brave New | VBen 2004 03 00 |
| it well. The Germans are sensitive. And the writer James Graham Ballard seems to glorify violence. He seems to approve of | EFin 2005 09 00 |
| interview originally appeared online; transcript supplied by Simon Sellars. Interviewer: Graham Rae] Graham Rae. 'JG Ballard mini-interview'. GRae: Are you happy | GRae 2006 00 00 |
| appeared online; transcript supplied by Simon Sellars. Interviewer: Graham Rae] Graham Rae. 'JG Ballard mini-interview'. GRae: Are you happy with the | GRae 2006 00 00 |
| as an ordinary reader and civilian, meet Evelyn Waugh or Graham Greene or whoever, Camus or Moravia … TLit: Did you meet | TLit 2006 07 10 |
| rare literary feat of creating his own world. Just as Graham Greene created 'Greeneland' -- a psychic terrain racked with anguish | MBro 2006 09 02 |
| a textile firm, and raised in an international enclave, James Graham Ballard was seven when the Japanese invaded China. Carnage and | MWal 2006 09 09 |
| British literary scene. The serious writers I admired, Lawrence Durrell, Graham Greene, later Anthony Burgess, all lived abroad, and I sort | RMcC 2006 09 14 |
| age seventy-five, is also bursting with charm and ideas. James Graham Ballard was born in Shanghai, where his father worked for | DMor 2006 09 28 |
| town on the north bank of the Thames, where James Graham Ballard has spent the greater part of his life. A | WSel 2006 10 00 |
| cults come and go, but for fifty years now, James Graham Ballard has been one of the coolest authors on the | MDoh 2006 10 02 |
| open. 2007 Rae interview [Published online at laurahird.com. Interviewer: Graham Rae] GRae: When and how did you first encounter Burroughs’ | GRae 2007 00 00 |
| rectum, and many of the adults had lost heart". James Graham Ballard is a large man with mischief in his eye | JCam 2008 06 14 |
| Hamilton and other pop-artists overthrew Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Graham Sutherland. Ballard refers to the latter group, a touch severely | JCam 2008 06 14 |