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...ideas. James Graham Ballard was born in Shanghai, where his father worked for a British textile company. After the family's wartime internment, Ballard studied medicine at Cambridge, trained as a pilot in the Royal Air Force and worked at a scientific journal. He started writing for science-fiction magazines and became a leading figure in sci-fi's New Wave, which eschewed outer space for the more immediate world. "I haven't written any science fiction since the 1960s," Ballard says from his home in the London exurb of Shepperton, where he has lived for 45 years. "I just...
...actually a pseudonym, meant to preserve the town’s anonymity—discussing possible locations and activities for the films. Some of the children’s actions were improvised, though others were scripted; some films were shot as many as ten times. Lockhart created a fiction-as-truth version of Pine Flat, what curator Linda Norden describes as “artifice in the interest of capturing what [Lockhart] experienced.” This posed reality becomes much more evident in the photographs on the walls surrounding the screening rooms. Two years after she began filming...
Many of the summer’s literary offerings were soon forgotten. Only five books remained among the top 15 New York Times bestselling non-fiction hardcovers as of this week. Novels apparently fared worse than non-fiction works, with only three novels older than a month making the Times’ companion list...
Readers decided to stick with familiar titles. “Marley & Me,” the oddly popular memoir of a newspaper man’s ill-behaved dog, dominated the non-fiction section along with interesting and layman-accessible tomes by Thomas L. Friedman, Steven Levitt, and Malcolm Gladwell, respectively...
...London-based consultancy, the Future Foundation, describes what results as "analogue family." "You may find that friends, godparents and the like become absorbed into the family structure," she says. "The nature of family is becoming much more networked and loose." Nuclear Explosions Ironically, Maggie Alderson's latest work of fiction, Cents and Sensibility, centers on a family light-years from her own tight, nuclear unit. It's a patchwork, stitched together from the remnants of previous partnerships; Alderson's tale involves so many offspring that the heroine's father's sixth wife keeps track of her 13 siblings and stepsiblings...