An editor who read “Crash” called JG Ballard “beyond psychiatric help. Do not publish”
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 Do not publish.”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…
