A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024‘A joy’ THE WASHINGTON POST‘Vibrant’ LIT HUB‘Moving’ THE NEW YORK TIMES‘Powerful’ NEW YORKERLucy Sante has often felt like an outsider. Born in Belgium to conservative Catholic working-class parents, she was transplanted to the United States without ever entirely settling ...

The classic social history of corruption and vice in nineteenth-century NYC: "A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves" (John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review).Lucy Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the ...

All'inizio del 2021 Luc Sante invia a una stretta cerchia di amici una mail dirompente: a sessantasette anni sta per affrontare la transizione di genere. A lungo Sante si è sentito fuori posto: figlio unico di genitori cattolici e operai, nato in Belgio, emigra da piccolo con la famiglia negli Stati Uniti, per poi trasferirsi a New York e frequentare la scena artistica e culturale dei primi anni Settanta. Sante stringe amicizia con figure leggendarie: da Nan Goldin a Jean-Michel Basquiat, ...

« Je ne suis pas une écrivaine trans. Je suis une écrivaine qui est trans. »Début 2021, Luc Sante envoie à son cercle d'amis un mail bouleversant : à 67 ans, il s'apprête à devenir Lucy, en ajoutant une lettre à son nom.Sante s'est longtemps sentie déplacée : enfant unique de parents catholiques et ouvriers, née en Belgique, elle émigre très tôt aux États-Unis avec sa famille, puis s'installe à New York où elle fréquente la scène artistique du début des années 1970...

In his second collection (after Kill All Your Darlings, 2007), Luc Sante pays homage to Patti Smith, Rene Ricard, and Georges Simenon; traces the history of tabloids; surveys the landscape that gave birth to the Beastie Boys; explores the back alleys of vernacular photography; sounds a threnody for the forgotten dead of New York City.The glue holding the collection together is autobiography. Every item carries deep personal significance, and most are rooted in lived experi...

The acclaimed author of Low Life reinvents the memoir in a cunning, lyrical book that is at once a personal history and a meditation on the construction of identity.Born in Belgium but raised in New Jersey, Lucy Sante transformed herself from a pious, timid Belgian child into a boisterous American adolescent, who eschewed French while fantasizing about the pop star Françoise Hardy. To show how this transformation came about--and why it remained incomplete--The Factory of Facts

" The Other Paris is both eulogy and paean to the matrixes of anarchy, creativity, crime, and serendipity that once gave shape to the City of Light." —Anna Wiener, The New RepublicParis, the City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow: the city of the poor, the outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the willfully nonconforming. In The Other Pari...

Now in paperback: acclaimed author Lucy Sante’s “eye-opening tale of the greed and corruption but also diplomacy and ingenuity” (The Washington Post) involved in the creation of the upstate reservoir system that makes New York City’s existence possible—but irreparably altered rural ecosystems and communitiesFrom 1907 to 1967, a network of reservoirs and aqueducts was built across more than one million acres in upstate New York, including Greene, Delaware, ...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Lucy Sante has often felt like an outsider.** Born in Belgium to conservative Catholic working-class parents, she was transplanted to the United States without ever entirely settling here. But a feeling of home finally arrived when she moved to New York City in the early 1970s amidst her fellow bohemians. Through those electric years, some of her friends would die young, from drugs and AIDS, and others would become jarringly famous. Lucy flirted with bot...

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Lucy Sante (I Heard Her Call My Name), a new collection of essays and reflections, mixing memoir with incisive writing about photography, music, literature, and film.Here she learns to dance by watching Soul Train, dissects the image of the cowboy, reads the telephone book, visits famous writers, tours dead factories, wonders whatever happened to the revolution, plunges into the vast sea of discarded snapshots, asks wh...

A new edition, revised and expanded, of Lucy Sante's classic history of the real-photo postcard, with 130 images and a new afterword.In rural America at the beginning of the twentieth century, the worldwide postcard craze coincided with the spread of light, cheap photographic equipment. The result was the real-photo postcard, so-called because the cards were printed in darkrooms rather than on litho presses, usually in editions of a hundred or fewer, the work of am...

"These 55 raw, stark photos of the dead—victims of murder or suicides—are both fascinating and horrifying . . . [a] highly original piece of social history." — Library JournalFollowing Low Life, Lucy Sante's acclaimed evocation of the underside of New York City's history, Evidence is an investigation into the mysteries of crime, death, and photography that only this brilliant and original writer could conduct.In one sense Evidence i...