Performativizing Papyrocentricity #67

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Early Riser — Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh (1928)

• The Future is Fascist — Futurism, Richard Humphreys (1999 Tate Publishing)

• Mystery and Meaning — Dictionary of Plant Names, Allen J. Coombes (1985)

• Noshing on Noxiousness — Nekro-Noxious: Toxic Tales of True Transgression in Miami Municipal Mortuary, Norberto Fetidescu (TransVisceral Books 2018)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #66

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Pygmies and Secret Policemen – Football Against the Enemy, Simon Kuper (1994)

• Writhing Along in My Automobile – Crash: The Limits of Car Safety, Nicholas Faith (Boxtree 1998)

• A Boy and His Bandit — Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinoüs, Royston Lambert (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1984)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #65

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Fratele Gets You Nowhere – O mie nouă sute optzeci şi patru, George Orwell, translated by Mihnea Gafiţa (Biblioteca Polirom 2002)

• Whole Lotta Scott – Highway to Hell: The Life and Times of AC/DC Legend Bon Scott, Clinton Walker (Pan Books 1996)

• The Bella and the Boltonian – A Forger’s Tale: Confessions of the Bolton Forger, Shaun Greenhalgh (Allen & Unwin 2017)

• Clubbed to Deaf – The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club, Peter Hook (Simon & Schuster 2009)

• Dizh Izh Vizh Bizh – Vilest Visions: The Darkest, Despicablest, Disgustingest Decapitations vs The Nastiest, Noxiousest, Nauseatingest Necrophilia, Dr Samuel P. Salatta and Dr William K. Phipps (Visceral Visions 2018)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #64

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• God Guide – A Guide to Tolkien, David Day (Octopus 1993)

• The Catcher and the Rye – The Biology of Flowers, Eigil Holm, ill. by Thomas Bredsdorff and Peter Nielsen (Penguin Nature Guides 1979)

• Dayzed and Contused – The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw: The Robin Friday Story, Paul McGuigan and Paolo Hewitt (Mainstream 1997)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #63

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Bullets and Butterflies – Mad Dog Killers: The Story of a Congo Mercenary, Ivan Smith (Helion / 30° South Publishers 2012)

• Jaundiced on George – George Orwell: English Rebel, Robert Colls (Oxford University Press 2013)

• Crabsody in View – RSPB Handbook of the Seashore, Maya Plass (Bloomsbury 2013)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #62

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Queen and Not Heard – The African Queen, C.S. Forester (1935)

• Ley Ho, Let’s Go! – Britannia Obscura: Mapping Britain’s Hidden Landscapes, Joanne Parker (Vintage 2014)

• Hymn Pickings – The Church Hymnary, Various (Oxford University Press 1927)

• Clock, Stock and Biswell – A Clockwork Orange: The Restored Edition, Anthony Burgess, edited by Andrew Biswell (Heinemann 2012)

• Vid Kid – Violated by Video: The Eldritch Chills of an ’Eighties Childhood… from Video Nasties to Nazi Xploitation…, Paolo Nanderson (TransVisceral Books 2018)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #61

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Orchid Kid – The Orchid Hunter: A Young Botanist’s Search for Happiness, Leif Bersweden (Short Books 2017)

• Deep in the Dark – The Tunnel, Eric Williams (1951)

• Faces and Facts – The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History, James Hall (Thames & Hudson 2014)

• Persian Pool – Religions of Iran: From Prehistory to the Present, Richard Foltz (Oneworld 2013)

• Hooky Here – Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, Peter Hook (Simon & Schuster 2012)

• #MiToo – Morbidly Miriam: The Mephitic Memoirs of Miriam B. Stimbers, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers (TransVisceral Books 2018)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #60

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Conteur Compatissant – Short Stories, Guy de Maupassant, translated by Marjorie Laurie (Everyman’s Library 1934)

• Riff-Raph – 100 Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces, Gordon Kerr (Flame Tree Publishing 2011)

• Fall of the Wild – A Fall of Moondust, Arthur C. Clarke (1961)

• Orchid and Oak – Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, W.E. Vine et al (Thomas Nelson 1984)

• Hoare Here – Risingtidefallingstar, Philip Hoare (Fourth Estate 2017)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #59

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Mobile Metal – Battleground: The Greatest Tank Duels in History, ed. Steven J. Zaloga (Osprey Publishing 2011)

• Allum’s Album – The Collector’s Cabinet: Tales, Facts and Fictions from the World of Antiques, Marc Allum (Icon Books 2013)

• Aschen Passion – Death in Venice and Other Stories, Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke (1988)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #58

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Diamond in the Dirt – Dirty Story: A further account of the life and adventures of Arthur Abdel Simpson, Eric Ambler (Bodley Head 1967)

• Spin Doctorate – Gossamer Days: Spiders, Humans and Their Threads, Eleanor Morgan (Strange Attractor Press 2016)

• Kid Chaos – Still William, Richmal Crompton (1925)

• Permission to Bland – Something Fresh, P.G. Wodehouse (1915)

• Succulent Selections – for Sizzlingly Serebral Splanchnoscopophilists…

• Tempting a Titan – a further exclusive extract from Titans of Transgression (TransVisceral Books, forthcoming)


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