@GirlontheProwl here. During my third year at university, I had a professor who turned me on to the likes of Mr. JG Ballard. I’d never heard of him before and I didn’t have much in the way of expectations for him. He was just some old dead guy who wrote books that couldn’t possibly be relevant to me…right? Wrong. I couldn’t have been more wrong. While Ballard is an acquired taste, and some may even find him a difficult read, this man had a talent for creating some—pardon my French—fucked up shit. And it isn’t without some thought that I turn him onto you. So to start you off, here’s Ballard’s High Rise. Continue reading →