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Lucy Sante had enough reasons to feel like an outsider. Born in
Belgium, the one child of conservative Catholic working-class
parents who transplanted their little family to the United States
without ever entirely settling here, she only really felt at home
when she moved to New York City in the early 70's, a feral moment
in which she found her people among a band of fellow bohemians
picking their way through the wreckage. Some of her friends would
die young, to drugs and AIDS, and some would become jarringly
famous. Lucy flirted with both fates, on her way to building an
estimable career as a writer. But in the deepest sense, she still
felt like an outsider, her life a performance. She was presenting a
façade, even to herself. Sante's memoir braids together two
threads of personal narrative, the arc of her life, and her recent
step by step transition to a place of inner and outer alignment. A
marvel of grace and empathy, I HEARD HER CALL MY NAME parses with
great sensitivity many issues that touch our lives deeply, having
to do with gender identity and far beyond.
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Seven Rooms
Dominic Jaeckle, Jess Chandler; Afterword by Gareth Evans; Contributions by Mario Dondero, Erica Baum, Jess Cotton, Rebecca Tamás, Stephen Watts, Helen Cammock, Salvador Espriu, Lucy Mercer, Lucy Sante, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Ryan Choi, John Yau, Nicolette Polek, Chris Petit, Sascha Macht, Amanda DeMarco, Mark Lanegan, Vala Thorodds, Richard Scott, Joshua Cohen, Hannah Regel, Nick Cave,, Daisy Lafarge, Holly Pester, Matthew Gregory, Olivier Castel, Emmanuel Iduma, Joan Brossa, Cameron Griffiths, Imogen Cassels, Hisham Bustani, Maia Tabet, Raúl Guerrero, Velimir Khlebnikov, Natasha Randall, Edwina Atlee, Matthew Shaw, Aidan Moffat, Lesley Harrison, Oliver Bancroft, Lauren de Sá Naylor, Will Eaves, Sandro Miller, Jim Hugunin,, …
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Seven Rooms brings together highlights from Hotel, a magazine for
new approaches to fiction, non-fiction & poetry which, since
its inception in 2016, provided a space for experimental reflection
on literature's status as art & cultural mediator. Co-published
by Tenement Press and Prototype, this anthology captures, refracts,
and reflects a vital moment in independent publishing in the UK,
and is built on the shared values of openness, collaboration, and
total creative freedom.
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Against Nature (Paperback)
Joris-Karl Huysmans; Translated by Theo Cuffe; Introduction by Lucy Sante
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"A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves." --John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review
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.
Low Life voyages through Manhattan from four different directions. Part One examines the actual topography of Manhattan from 1840 to 1919; Part Two, the era's opportunities for vice and entertainment--theaters and saloons, opium and cocaine dens, gambling and prostitution; Part Three investigates the forces of law and order which did and didn't work to contain the illegalities; Part Four counterposes the city's tides of revolt and idealism against the city as it actually was. Low Life provides an arresting and entertaining view of what New York was actually like in its salad days. But it's more than simpy a book about New York. It's one of the most provocative books about urban life ever written--an evocation of the mythology of the quintessential modern metropplois, which has much to say not only about New York's past but about the present and future of all cities.
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Bernd & Hilla Becher (Hardcover)
Jeff L. Rosenheim; Contributions by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Virginia Heckert, Lucy Sante, Max Becher
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The first comprehensive, posthumous monograph and retrospective on
Bernd and Hilla Becher, best known for their photographs of
industrial structures in Europe and North America For more than
five decades, Bernd (1931-2007) and Hilla (1934-2015) Becher
collaborated on photographs of industrial architecture in Germany,
France, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, and the United States.
This sweeping monograph features the Bechers' quintessential
pictures, which present water towers, gas tanks, blast furnaces,
and more as sculptural objects. Beyond the Bechers' iconic
Typologies, the book includes Bernd's early drawings, Hilla's
independent photographs, and excerpts from their notes,
sketchbooks, and journals. The book's authors offer new insights
into the development of the artists' process, their work's
conceptual underpinnings, the photographers' relationship to
deindustrialization, and the artists' legacy. An essay by
award-winning cultural historian Lucy Sante and an interview with
Max Becher, the artists' son, make this volume an unrivaled look
into the Bechers' art, life, and career. Published by The
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (July
11-October 30, 2022) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (December
17, 2022-April 2, 2023)
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Nada (Paperback)
Jean-Patrick Manchette; Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith; Introduction by Lucy Sante
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Paul Auster's signature work, "The New York Trilogy," consists of
three interlocking novels: "City of Glass," "Ghosts," and "The
Locked Room" - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the
breathless pace of a thriller."City of Glass" - As a result of a
strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of
detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than
any he might hace written"Ghosts"Blue, a student of Brown, has been
hired to spy on Black. From a window of a rented house on Orange
street, Blue stalks his subject, who is staring out of "his"
window. "The Locked Room" - Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving
behind his wife and baby and a cache of novels, plays, and poems.
What happened? Features an introduction from Luc Sante and
incredible cover illustrations by Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic
artist Art Spiegelman, creator of "Maus "and "In the Shadow of No
Towers".
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