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David Pringle posted this list of JGB interviews to the JGB mailing list in June 1999 and has kindly given permission for it to be published here. Here are his comments that accompanied the posting:
It occurred to me, after posting my note on Prospect magazine in which I referred to "the obligatory J. G. Ballard interview," that, since I have an ongoing Ballard bibliography on my computer, I might as well list here all the magazines and newspapers which have carried interviews with him over the years. They range from obscure fanzines (Arena SF) to big glossies (Vogue). The list is certainly not complete, especially with respect to foreign-language publications, but it's pretty comprehensive. It might serve as an object lesson in the sheer spread of periodicals of the past 30 years which have been willing to run interviews or profiles, ranging from the very brief (Sunday Sport) to the very long (Paris Review), with just one English- language sf writer of "literary" reputation. Moreover, the great majority of the following interviews are different -- i.e. they're not re-permutations of the same interview sessions; most of them are by different journalists (although about six of them, including the ones in Thrust, Foundation, Fear, SFX and of course Interzone, I did myself). And this list doesn't include any of the numerous radio and TV interviews which Ballard has also given. So how does he find any time for his writing?
 THE 1960s
Speculation [fanzine] no. 21 (February 1969) International Times no. 60 (July 18, 1969)
 THE 1970s
Penthouse vol. 5 (September? 1970) The Guardian (September 11, 1970)
Friends no. 17 (October 30, 1970) Cypher [fanzine] no. 3 (December 1970)
Times Educational Supplement (January 29, 1971) Books and Bookmen (April 1971)
Transatlantic Review no. 39 (Spring 1971) Studio International no. 183 (October 1971)
Evergreen Review no. 96 (Spring 1973) Writer (June 1973)
Radio Times (December 13, 1973) Galaxie [French] no. 117 (February 1974)
Magazine Litteraire [French] no. 87 (April 1974) Actuel [French] no. 46 (September 1974)
Science Fiction Monthly vol. 2 no. 10 (October 1975) Street Life vol. 1, no. 8 (February 7, 1976)
L'Express [French] (February 2-8, 1976) Vector [fanzine] no. 73/74 (March 1976)
Univers [French] no. 8 (March 1977) Opus International [French] no. 64 (Autumn 1977)
Search and Destroy: Rebel Youth Culture no. 10 (no date: late 1978) Penthouse vol. 14 (April? 1979)
Time Out (November 2, 1979) Vector [fanzine] no. 96 (December 1979/January 1980)
Thrust: SF in Review no. 14 (Winter 1979/1980)  
 THE 1980s
The Listener vol. 103 (February 14, 1980) Aether SF [fanzine] no. 2 (?, 1980)
Etoile Mecanique [French fanzine] "numero triple 1, 2 et 3" (July 1981-March 1982) Sunday Express Magazine no. 38 (December 27, 1981)
Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction no. 24 (February 1982) Heavy Metal (April 1982) 34) Night Out no. 5 (November 1982)
Metaphores [French, but English text] no. 7 (April? 1983) New Musical Express (October 22, 1983)
Hard Copy [fanzine] no. 1 (January 1984) Literary Review no. 74 (August 1984)
Books and Bookmen no. 348 (September 1984) Observer Magazine (September 2, 1984)
City Limits (September 7, 1984) The Sunday Times (September 9, 1984)
Time Out (September 27, 1984) Weekend Australian Magazine (November 3-4, 1984)
The Guardian (November 29, 1984) Paris Review, no. 94 (Winter 1984/1985)
Newsweek (January 28, 1985) Vogue vol. 142, no. 2 (February 1985)
Liberation [French] (April 26, 1985) Magazine Litteraire [French] no. 219 (May 1985)
Le Monde [French] (May 3, 1985) Le Nouvel Observateur [French] no. 1085 (August 23-29, 1985)
Words: The New Literary Forum, vol. 1, no. 4 (September 1985) New Musical Express (October 26, 1985)
Les Nouvelles Litteraires [French] no. 7 (June 1986) Books no. 6 (September 1987)
Sunday Express Magazine (September 6, 1987) Time Out (September 9, 1987)
City Limits (September 10, 1987) Panorama [Italian] (September 13, 1987)
i-D Magazine no. 53 (November 1987) Rolling Stone (November 19, 1987)
Chicago Tribune (December 21, 1987) Interzone no. 22 (Winter 1987/1988)
Starlog no. 126 (January 1988) Sunday Oregonian (January 10, 1988)
Publishers Weekly (March 11, 1988) The Scotsman (March 14, 1988)
The Guardian (March 17, 1988) The Sunday Times Magazine (March 20, 1988)
Daily Mail (March 30, 1988) Impulse: The Magazine of Time and Space [Toronto] (Spring 1988)
The Face no. 96 (April 1988) Women's Wear Daily (April 1, 1988)
You Magazine [supplement to Sunday Mail] (April 10, 1988) Time (April 25, 1988
Sunday Sport (May 1, 1988) Twilight Zone vol. 8, no. 2 (June 1988)
North Beach NOW (Summer 1988) Locus no. 332 (September 1988)
Spin (January 1989) The Observer Magazine (April 16, 1989)
Science Fiction Eye no. 5 (July 1989)  
 THE 1990s
Fear no. 14 (February 1990) Science Fiction Eye no. 6 (February 1990)
New York Times Magazine (September 9, 1990) The Sunday Times ["Books" section] (November 11, 1990)
Mississippi Review vol. 20, no. 1-2 (1991) Science Fiction Eye no. 8 (Winter 1991)
Blitz no. ? (May 1991) Weekend Telegraph (July 13, 1991)
The Bookseller (August 16, 1991) Interzone no. 51/Million no. 5 [i.e. combined issue of two magazines] (September 1991)
Waterstone's New Books Winter 1991 (n.d.: Autumn 1991?) The Guardian (September 5, 1991)
Independent on Sunday (Sunday Review) (September 15, 1991) The Observer (September 15, 1991)
The Independent (September 21, 1991) The Sunday Times ["Books" section] (September 22, 1991)
Time Out (September 25, 1991) i-D Magazine no. 97 (October 1991)
Scotland on Sunday (October 6, 1991) Blast! (November 1991)
Telegraph Magazine (November 9, 1991) The Independent (December 16, 1991)
Fantazia no. 18 (December 1991) The Washington Post (January 7, 1992)
International Herald Tribune (January 9, 1992) ABC Radio 24 Hours (January 1992)
21.C Magazine [Australian] no. 5 (Autumn [i.e. Spring] 1992) The Lady (May 26-June 1, 1992)
Urania [Italian] no. 1191 (November 1992) The Hardcore [fanzine] no. 8 (no date; December 1992?)
Albedo One [fanzine, Dublin] (Autumn 1993) The Independent Magazine (January 29, 1994)
The Sunday Telegraph ["Review" section] (March 20, 1994) Life [Observer magazine] (August 7, 1994)
The Evening Standard (September 8, 1994) World Art [Newark, New Jersey] (January 1995)
Sci-Fi Universe (April 1995) Newsday ["Fanfare" section] (May 21, 1995)
Probable Cause: A Literary Revue [Miami] (Summer 1995) Classic [a British Sunday newspaper magazine -- the Sunday Express?] (August 20, 1995)
Les Inrockuptibles [sic: French magazine] (November 15, 1995) Magazine Litteraire [French] no. 338 (December 1995)
Scotland on Sunday ["Spectrum" section] (January 7, 1996) The Scotsman Magazine (January 9, 1996)
SFX no. 9 (February 1996) Interzone no. 106 (April 1996)
Sunday Times (May 12, 1996) The Guardian (May 20, 1996)
Telegraph Magazine (September 14, 1996) Index Magazine (date uncertain -- 1997?)
Artforum vol. xxxv, no. 7 (March 1997) The New Yorker (March 17, 1997)
Sunday Times (February 1, 1998) Prospect (August/September 1998)
List copyright © David Pringle, 1999