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	Amazon.com: Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York: Books: Luc Sante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Sante exposes the underside of Manhattan's underclass circa 1840-1919, presenting New York then as already a realm of danger and pleasure.
		Luc Sante gives us the history of New York City's lower rungs of the economic ladder from the early 1800's to the early...
		Luc Sante has a poetic drift about him and the book is written in that style.
	www.amazon.com /Low-Life-Lures-Snares-York/dp/0679738762 (1402 words)

	Granta: Luc Sante
		Luc Sante was born in Verviers, Belgium in 1954, and emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1963.
		Luc Sante is a book critic for New York magazine, a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, and a senior contributor to the internet magazine Slate.
		Luc Sante's tantalizing memoir of his life in Belgium and America casts a wonderfully idiosyncratic eye on these two vastly different cultures and how they have shaped his own divided heritage.
	www.granta.com /authors/39 (227 words)

	Guardian lit. \| Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		LUC SANTE burst onto the offbeat-literature scene a few years back with Low Life, an intricate, obsessive history of the dark and seedier side of pre-World War I New York City.
		Sante describes it as "the Peoria of the world," an unlikely, artificial, and slowly disintegrating agglomeration of Dutch-speaking Flemish and French-speaking Walloons.
		Generations of Santes lived their lives in a region smaller than New York City under conditions that were almost feudal until startlingly recently.
	www.sfbg.com /lit/reviews/fun.html (496 words)

	The Believer - Interview with Luc Sante
		Sante’s best-known book, Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, is a cultural history of dark New York between 1840 and 1900 culled from police gazettes, photographs, and accounts of legend, anecdote, incident, and eyewitness.
		Sante now resides with his wife, writer Melissa Holbrook Pierson, outside the city and its discontents, where he teaches writing and photography upstate at Bard College, though he says that New York is always part of his consciousness.
		LUC SANTE: All I know about 1970s New York City is that it’s where I grew up, and you always have an umbilical connection to the time and place of your growing up.
	www.believermag.com /exclusives/?read=interview_sante (2444 words)

	Amazon.com: The Factory of Facts: Books: Luc Sante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Sante's not one to bare his soul, but the cumulative effect of his impressionistic technique is revealing: when he describes the hallmarks of his natal land as "ambivalence, invisibility, secretiveness, self-doubt, passivity, irony, and derision," we infer that these traits also form the author's essence.
		Sante (Evidence, LJ 11/1/92) has won the Whiting and Guggenheim awards and contributes frequently to the New York Review of Books, New York magazine, and Slate.
		Sante has a wonderful mind, a kind heart, the eye of a detective, an uncanny ear for language, cultural differences, nuance, and the meaning of things.
	www.amazon.com /Factory-Facts-Luc-Sante/dp/0679746501 (1124 words)

	The Factory of Facts -- Luc Sante
		In The Factory of Facts, Sante turns his attention to his own life and past, creating an intriguing work of remembrance and a meditation on the influence of history and culture on constructing identity.
		Sante was born in Belgium in 1954 and moved to America as a little boy.
		Perhaps in other hands this book might have failed as overly-nostalgic or as a sappy “journey of self-discovery.” Instead, Sante’s insights on the nature of our background and identity as a series of “accidental” experiences with culture and history are unique in their precision and thoughtfulness.
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0679746501 (333 words)

	index magazine interview
		LUC: There were very few people there because the immigrants had been driven out and then the hippies went away, partly because the neighborhood got very violent in the early '70s as a result of amphetamines.
		LUC: Oh boy, well in terms of homosexuality, that wasn't even coded in personal ads, that was something that happened by eye contact in certain bars, period.
		LUC: No, because people are still going to have the same idea: you clean up your room and you think, oh, who cares about this junk, and you dump it.
	www.indexmagazine.com /interviews/luc_sante.shtml (3218 words)

	Luc Sante - The Museum of Crime and the Museum of God
		Luc Sante - The Museum of Crime and the Museum of God
		Luc Sante in conversation with Annie Nocenti: June 20, 8pm
		Both face down death by converting it into a promise.
	www.apexart.org /exhibitions/sante.htm (1214 words)

	Powell's Books - Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York by Luc Sante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Luc 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 city's slums; the teeming streets--scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape.
		Luc Sante was born in Verviers, Belgium, and now lives in New York City.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0374528993-0 (561 words)

	Chronogram - Poetic Detective - Apr 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Sante is known for a body of work—most notably Low Life and Evidence—that has made him the "go to" guy on historic New York and the slang of outsiders.
		Luc admits he hasn't done much research into the history of this area, but would like to know a lot more.
		Luc looks down at all this and says, "I had things I wanted to say about doom." He is referring to our earlier conversation about the state of the world.
	www.chronogram.com /issue/2005/04/bookshelf (1303 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		This book by Luc Sante is the exception--in fluid prose liberally sprinkled with astute metaphors, Sante tells the story of New York's Lower East Side, circa 1840-1920.
		Sante puts the social, ideological, economic, and cultural characteristics of 'low-life' New York in perspective with the rest of the nation.
		Luc Santé has written this wonderful book about the social history of New York City from the 1840s to WWI, with a particular emphasis on the very late 1800s.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679738762 (849 words)

	MISCMEDIA.COM: The Factory of Facts, by Luc Sante
		On the surface, The Factory of Facts (Pantheon) is the simple memoir of Luc Sante's search for his roots, as a child brought to the U.S. northeast in the '50s by parents emigrating from a depressed small factory town in still-war-scarred Belgium.
		Sante's explanation is more melancholy: "We lost connection to a thing larger than ourselves, and as a family failed to make any significant new connection in exchange, so that we were left aground on a sandbar barely big enough for our feet.
		Sante ultimately reconciles himself to his roots by re-defining himself again.
	www.miscmedia.com /sante.html (677 words)

	Interviews - Luc Sante
		This is because we live in New York."
		Belgian-born, Sante was transplanted to New Jersey when he was five years old.
		A writer and critic, he is the author of THE FACTORY OF FACTS (1998, Pantheon Books), a memoir that explores his Belgian origins.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/newyork/series/interview/sante.html (401 words)

	Bill Peschel's Review of "Evidence" \| Luc Sante & "New York Noir" \| William Hannigan
		D uring the eras marked by Luc Sante's "Evidence" (1914-1919) and "New York Noir" (mid-1920s onward), the camera changed how we perceived the world.
		The crime scene photos in "Evidence" were discovered by Sante while researching another project in the archives of the New York Police Department.
		We see the pennants from a tourist site in Pennsylvania, the illustrations from the magazines, the photos on the mantlepiece, the hat one man hung over the gas pipe used to illuminate his room.
	www.planetpeschel.com /Reviews/Nonfiction/evidence.htm (851 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 97025814 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Born in a factory town in southern Belgium in 1954, he was brought by his parents to the United States as a small child.
		Not quite knowing where he belonged, Sante grew up split: half in the old world, half in the new one, and resentful of both.
		So Sante becomes a detective, digging for clues to his childhood, to the lives of his parents, to the murky traces of his ancestors.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random049/97025814.html (402 words)

	clew's reviews: a book log: Low Life, Luc Sante
		All the specifics are horrible: brass eye gougers, child-gang saloons with child-prostitutes, riots the size of battles, disease, crowding.
		More oddly, he writes that "...about the rest of America she is remarkably unsnobbish, and her book was something of an advertisement for the young country." That isn't what the Tories in England thought; it isn't what she meant; and I don't think it was the received view in Cincinnati in Trollope's day.
		More on that later.² Sante, drenched in accounts of bloodshed and immiseration, might not have taken her descriptions of the unmannered provicials as she meant them.
	www.tenhand.com /clew/blog/archives/000149.html (549 words)

	Powell's Books - O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors by Luc Sante
		In this superb collection of essays edited by Luc Sante, author of Lowlife, and Melissa Holbrook Pierson, writers as diverse as John Updike, Patti Smith, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic pay to homage the famous and the lesser known actors (some megastars, some lesser lights) who illuminate our Hollywood dreams.
		From a side-splitting tribute to Elmer Fudd to an earnest lament at the absence of great fat actors today, O.K. You Mugs is a dazzling anthology that focuses on those remarkable talents who gave some of the most memorable performances in the history of Hollywood.
		Luc Sante and Melissa Holbrook Pierson live in Brooklyn, New York.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=719&cgi=product&isbn=0375700927 (212 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Inferno: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		It is consequently churlish to denigrate it for poor coverage, as in so doing one may well miss its accomplishment in being one of the most harrowing and important collections of images I have seen in recent years.
		Frankly, the introduction by Sante is badly-written and erratic, but more to the point it is unimportant.
		I found Luc Sante's writing noble although I considered it a tad irrelevant as I believe in the school that says that good image books need no introduction.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0714838152 (956 words)

	Alibris: Luc Sante
		This acclaimed history of New York concentrates on the city's dark underside, particularly in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
		In the disturbing worlds of conflict, rivalry and cruelty he sets out to communicate horrors that we often choose to ignore, addressing the victims' suffering and powerlessness with a clear and unflinching gaze.
		In the 1980's Richard Prince was among the generation of infuluential and innovative American artists based in New York.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Luc_Sante (1136 words)

	Luc Sante - The New York Review of Books
		Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005.
		He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
		Luc Sante has selected the best of anarchist and art critic Fénéon's vignettes of the darker side of life—adultery, murder, revenge, labor unrest, and suicide—in early-20th-century France.
	www.nybooks.com /authors/79 (1247 words)

	village voice > news > The Essay by Luc Sante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A.J. Liebling had an eye for the beauty of a con and an ear for the city's idioms
		We know which books can be read only once, if that, and we know the ones that can be read and reread and reread."
		Luc Sante is general editor of the Library of Larceny (Broadway Books) and the author of Low Life, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0420/essay.php (1083 words)

	Alibris: Luc Sante
		Now back in print--the classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in "Salon" called, "a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain."
		by Crane, Stephen, and Sante, Luc (Introduction by)
		by Muniz, Vik, and Sante, Luc (Foreword by), and Mitchell, William, Dr.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Sante,Luc (1136 words)

	Regarding the Pain of Others By Jim Lewis and Luc Sante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Regarding the Pain of Others By Jim Lewis and Luc Sante
		Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts.
		A couple of weeks ago, a motley crew of New York University students collected in front of...
	slate.msn.com /id/2079000/entry/2079085 (1650 words)

	Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 97025814 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Library of Congress makes no claims as to the accuracy of the information provided, and will not maintain or otherwise edit/update the information supplied by the publisher.
		Luc Sante is the author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York and Evidence.
		He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, a book critic for New York magazine, and a senior contributor to Slate.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/random057/97025814.html (151 words)

	In Conversation: Seymour Hersh, Luc Sante, David Levi Strauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In Conversation: Seymour Hersh, Luc Sante, David Levi Strauss
		Sante's essays have appeared in the New York Review of Books, New York Times Magazine, and many other publications.
		He has received a Whiting Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Grammy (for album notes).
	www.soros.org /Staging/initiatives/photography/events/conversation_20041109/event_biography_folder_initiative_view (271 words)

	Photography Faculty \| Luc Sante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Luc Sante teaches the history of photography in the Fall semester, and creative
		Spot and DoubleTake, and has been a visiting critic in the graduate department
		Luc has received a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim
	inside.bard.edu /photo/faculty/sante.shtml (114 words)

	OSI: In Conversation: Seymour Hersh, Luc Sante, David Levi Strauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		OSI: In Conversation: Seymour Hersh, Luc Sante, David Levi Strauss
		An Iraqi prisoner was made to stand on a box for about an hour.
		Three writers and critics addressed the emergence of the Abu Ghraib photographs and spoke to the related ethical and political issues, the function of electronic media, and photography's role in documenting truth.
	www.soros.org /Staging/initiatives/photography/events/conversation_20041109?skin=printable (117 words)

	Luc Sante - Penguin Classics Authors - Penguin Classics
		Luc Sante - Penguin Classics Authors - Penguin Classics
		Luc Sante teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
		Copyright © 2006 Penguin Group (USA) Inc. All Rights Reserved
	us.penguinclassics.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,10_1000028210,00.html?sym=BIO (42 words)

	The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributor: Tourists and Torturers
		Perhaps, though, the digital camera will haunt the future career of George W. Bush the way the tape recorder sealed the fate of Richard Nixon.
		Luc Sante, who teaches creative writing and the history of photography at Bard College, is the author of "Low Life," "Evidence" and "The Factory of Facts."
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	www.nytimes.com /2004/05/11/opinion/11SANT.html?ex=1399608000&en=9494d34780079ef0&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (1157 words)

	Powell's Books - O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors by Luc Sante
		--From the Preface by Melissa Holbrook Pierson and Luc Sante
		Luc Sante is the author of The Factory of Facts and Low Life (both available from Vintage Books) and is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
		Melissa Holbrook Pierson is the author of The Perfect Vehicle.
	powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=719&cgi=product&isbn=0375401016 (222 words)

	The Factory of Facts by Luc Sante
		To show how this transformation came about--and why it remained incomplete--The Factory of Facts combines family anecdote and ancestral legend; detailed forays into Belgian history, language, and religion; and deft synopses of the American character.
		Sante has a historian's fiendish taste for information.
		Sante makes a reader want to know him." --The Boston Globe
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679746508 (164 words)

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