- Luc Sante
Luc Sante (born 1954 in
Verviers , Belgium) is a writer and critic. He emigrated to the United States in the early 1960s. He attended Regis High School in Manhattan andColumbia University and since 1984 has been a full-time writer.His books include "Low Life" (1991), "Evidence" (1992), "The Factory of Facts" (1998), "Walker Evans" (1999), and "Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005" (2007). He co-edited, with the writer
Melissa Holbrook Pierson , "O. K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors" (1998), and translated and editedFélix Fénéon 's "Novels in Three Lines" (2007) for theNew York Review Books (NYRB) series.Luc Sante is a frequent contributor to the "
New York Review of Books " (where he worked first in the mailroom and then as assistant toBarbara Epstein ), and has written about books, films, art, photography, and miscellaneous cultural phenomena for many other periodicals.He received a Whiting Writer's Award in 1989, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992-93, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1997, and a
Grammy , for album notes, in 1998 (Sante was one of the album note writers for the 1997 re-issue of the "Anthology of American Folk Music "). He lives inUlster County, New York , and teaches writing and the history of photography atBard College .External links
* [http://ekotodi.blogspot.com/ "Pinakothek"] Sante's "blog about pictures"
* [http://www.whowalkinbrooklyn.com/?p=645 "Who Walk In Brooklyn" interview]
* [http://www.believermag.com/exclusives/?read=interview_sante "Believer" interview]
* [http://www.granta.com/extracts/2255 "Plastics" by Luc Sante]
* [http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=68 "Scan" interview]
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