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An editor who read "Crash" called JG Ballard "beyond psychiatric help. Do not publish"
April 24, 2026
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When JG Ballard submitted Crash to Jonathan Cape in the early 1970s, a senior reader reportedly wrote on the manuscript: This man is beyond psychiatric help. Do not publish. Cape published it anyway, and Ballard went on to write The Atrocity Exhibition, The Drowned World, and Empire of the Sun — a body of work so magnificent that Ballardian is now a real word in the language.
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