'I Know How To Live': The Life of Kristen Pfaff
I Know How To LiveHear Kristen Pfaff's demos & read volume 1 of the biography of Kristen Pfaff (a Substack bestseller) drawing from her archive. Described by Jane Savidge as 'Mankowski’s brilliant retelling of the extraordinary life of Pfaff'
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‘Kristen Pfaff sings, records over, sings again into the microphone, onto the malleable ribbon of magnetic tape...’
‘In a paradoxical way, this digital account offers a more authentic, more compelling, way of telling this multi-layered, multi-material story than a physical book could.’
In a piece that delves into the hissing of Pfaff’s tapes, the layer...
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