Newsletter: Sleepy Brain

Simon Sellars News

Dear friends. I have started a newsletter, called Sleepy Brain, to focus my mind during this strange time. The first entry discusses quarantine limbo, throat-slashing dreams and the ashes of a fading career. If you …

Applied Ballardianism readings on Soundcloud

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If you missed Urbanomic’s fabulous live PlaguePod last night, I’ve uploaded the readings I did for it. Two extracts from Applied Ballardianism (‘Wire Music’ & ‘Kick the Dog’), backed by assorted industrial noise:

Interview & reading on PlaguePod

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Join myself and Robin Mackay on Saturday night (GMT)/Sunday morning (AEST) for Urbanomic’s PlaguePod. We’ll be discussing J.G. Ballard’s most searing quarantine & self-isolation stories, including “The Enormous Space” & “The Intensive Care Unit”, accompanied …

European Tour Cancelled

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Dear friends, So my Italian book tour has been cancelled, and now the London event. Coronadread finally got us. There is so much uncertainty at the moment, here and at home, that I feel it …

Interview on Ljubljana’s Radio Student

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I really enjoyed doing this interview with Maks Valenčič for Radio Student in Ljubljana. It was great to talk about what I mean when I say I’ve become “post-Ballardian” & chat about my novel-in-progress: an …

Ljubljana: A Secret History of Zones

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Tonight, at Fabula Fest in Ljubljana, I’m presenting A Secret History of Zones. If you’re around in this beautiful city, I hope we can meet! Part 1: Deviant Zones: Crash & autogeddonPart 2: Ruined Zones: …