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Guy Mankowski
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in Newport, Isle Of Wight, The United Kingdom
January 06, 1983
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My TEDx talk on opening Kristen Pfaff's archive for a new book is now out...
I was first inspired to write a book about Kristen Pfaff from Hole when I read her mother, Janet's excellent book about her daughter's life and it contained excerpts from Kristen's diary. An entry in which she describes as a young girl having a conversation with the sea remains the most beautiful piece of writing I've read. So to now be writing her biography with her brother is an honour for me.
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An Honest Deceit
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Letters From Yelena
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How I Left the National Grid: A Post-Punk Novel
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"Dead Rock Stars"
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The Intimates
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Albion's Secret History: Snapshots of England's Pop Rebels and Outsiders
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You Complete the Masterpiece: A Novel
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'I Know How To Live': The Life of Kristen Pfaff (volume 1)
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"Guy Mankowski’s latest novel ‘You Complete the Masterpiece’ pulls off a delicate balancing act. On one level it’s an intimate portrait of the main characters and their challenges yet the plot is dynamic with intrigue and crime stretched over a broad "
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“All I could hear in these stories about shitty people treating each other in shitty ways was an empty nihilism. Tear it down by all means, but then surely you had to build it back up? So many stories were Irvine Welsh rip-offs. He might've told us we could 'Choose Life'- and that meant consumerism, the other option being drugs. But beyond that binary there had to be something more- people wanting to heal, wanting to create something positive?”
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“You consider me for a moment, perhaps balancing the weight of your fear against the loneliness you will later feel in your room if you do not speak now”
― Letters From Yelena
― Letters From Yelena
“She didn’t think that by hanging a chandelier from the ceiling you made a room with a chandelier. She felt you’d made another world, which you could slip in and out of by some vague process of application”
― Letters From Yelena
― Letters From Yelena
“Apathy's just a front. People offer it when there's something stronger hiding underneath. You have to work harder to tap into it, but then your performance has even more power.”
― How I Left the National Grid: A Post-Punk Novel
― How I Left the National Grid: A Post-Punk Novel
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“You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.”
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“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
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“You consider me for a moment, perhaps balancing the weight of your fear against the loneliness you will later feel in your room if you do not speak now”
― Letters From Yelena
― Letters From Yelena
“She didn’t think that by hanging a chandelier from the ceiling you made a room with a chandelier. She felt you’d made another world, which you could slip in and out of by some vague process of application”
― Letters From Yelena
― Letters From Yelena
“There’s this misconception that artists should create their own mythologies, through how they live. Not true. They should create their own mythologies through their work. In whatever styles, textures and approaches they choose to use.”
― How I Left the National Grid: A Post-Punk Novel
― How I Left the National Grid: A Post-Punk Novel
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