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25. J.G. Ballard - Cocaine Nights

November 07, 2016 by John Mitchinson
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Monocle culture editor Robert Bound joins John and Andy to discuss J.G. Ballard's Spanish set thriller Cocaine Nights. Also, The Ballard-Bond connection, Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, and the phrase you never want to hear John Mitchinson say in person…

Books mentioned:

  • J.G. Ballard - Cocaine Nights, Crash, Empire of the Sun, The Atrocity Exhibition, High Rise, The Terminal Beach, Extreme Metaphors, Miracles of Life, Super-Cannes, Millennium People, The Kindness of Women

  • Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad, Zone One, John Henry Days

  • Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong

  • Donna Tartt - The Secret History

  • Paul Beatty - The sellout

  • Anita Brookner - Hotel du Lac

  • Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express

Other links:

  • JG Ballard obituary in the Guardian

  • Atrocity Exhibition by Joy Division (Spotify)

  • Interview with Jonathan Meades in The White Review

  • Paris Review interview

  • Now and again I open Crash. I think, my god, this is horrific

  • Ballardian website

  • JG Ballard on Desert Island Discs

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