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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #75

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…

• Spare on a Me-String – Spare, Prince Harry (Penguin 2023)

• Miserissimy Memoirs – The God Squad, Paddy Doyle (1988) / My Godawful Life, Sunny McCreary (2008)

• Twice Was Half As Nice – Going to Sea in a Sieve: The Autobiography, Danny Baker (Orion 2012)

• Visceral Volume – Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion, Harry Sword (White Rabbit 2021) / Heavy: How Metal Changes the Way We See the World, Dan Franklin (Constable 2020)

• Vehicular Villainess – Christine, Stephen King (1983)

• Once More (With Gweeling) – Gweel & Other Alterities, Simon Whitechapel (Incunabula Books 2023)

• Wrecking Bawl – The Lives of Brian: A Memoir, Brian Johnson (Michael Joseph 2022)

• Angst in Acky – The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness: A Memoir of an Adolescence, Graham Caveney (Picador 2017)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #74

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…

• A Big Book about Books – The Penguin Classics Book, Henry Eliot (Penguin 2018)

• Wrecks & Drugs & Rock & Roll – Bodies: Life and Death in Music, Ian Winwood (Faber 2022)

• In the Bland of the Blind – An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere, Mikita Brottman (Canongate 2018)

• Hu Thru Mu – The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth, Michael Spitzer (Bloomsbury 2021)

• A Bit of EngLit – The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature: Essays 1962-2002, John Bayley (Duckworth 2005)

• Chrome Tome – The Secret Lives of Colour, Kassia St Clair (John Murray 2018)

• Cannonball Corpse – AC/DC: The Story of the Original Monsters of Rock, Jerry Ewing (Carlton Books 2015)

• Chimpathy for the Devil? — Oasis: Supersonic: The Complete, Authorised and Uncut Interviews, curated by Simon Halfon (Nemperor 2021)

• D for Deviant, K for Korpse… — Doktor Deviant’s Diary of Depravity: Kandid Konfessions of a Kompulsive Korpse-Kopulator, ed. Dr David Kerekes and Samuel P. Salatta (Visceral Visions 2022)

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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #69

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Psyches and Psychoses – the work of Guy de Maupassant

• Buzz Off – The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks (1984)

• Drink Ink – The Way to Dusty Death, Alistair MacLean (1973)

• Littlerature – In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World, Simon Garfield (Canongate 2018)

• Le Paon dans les Pyrénées – The Man in the Red Coat, Julian Barnes (Penguin 2019)

• Bon and Off – Two Sides to Every Glory: AC/DC: The Complete Biography, Paul Stenning (Chrome Dreams 2005)

• The Fuel in the Skull – The Jewel in the Skull, Michael Moorcock (1969)

• Suspicious Substance – Substance: Inside New Order, Peter Hook (Simon & Schuster, 2016)

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Young Out to Dry

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“I am sick to death of people saying that we’ve made 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact we’ve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.” — Angus Young of AC/DC

Elsewhere other-accessible

• Bon and Off — a rogue review at Papyrocentric Performativity of Two Sides to Every Glory: AC/DC: The Complete Biography

Performativizing Papyrocentricity #65

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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 #51

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Bits of the Best – The Shorter Strachey, Lytton Strachey, ed. Michael Holroyd and Paul Levy (Oxford University Press 1980)

• Shaman On U! – Copendium: An Expedition into the Rock’n’Roll Underworld, Julian Cope (Faber and Faber 2012)

• Scorpions and Sea-Lords – Philip’s Guide to Seashells, A.P.H. Oliver, illustrated by James Nicholls (various)

• Spike-U-Like – The Cactus Handbook, Erik Haustein, translated by Pamela Marwood (Cathay Books 1988)

• Glasguitargang – Dog Eat Dog: A Story of Survival, Struggle and Triumph by the Man Who Put AC/DC on the World Stage, Michael Browning (Allen & Unwin 2014)

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