Luc Sante, Author , intro. by Greil Marcus. Verse Chorus/YETI $17.95 (299p) ISBN 978-1-891241-53-6
New York City is fated always to remain my home,” writes Sante, who became permanently linked with the city through the underground history he recounted in Low Life
, and the lead-off essay in this collection revisits the frame of mind he was...
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Luc Sante, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $27.5 (414p) ISBN 978-0-374-19414-7
In his first book, freelance writer Sante tours the underside of Manhattan's underclass circa 1840-1919. Clarifying his territory, he notes that ``New York is incarnated by Manhattan (the other boroughs . . . are merely adjuncts).'' Sante's bad old...
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Luc Sante, Author Vintage Books USA $16 (480p) ISBN 978-0-679-73876-3
Sante exposes the underside of Manhattan's underclass circa 1840-1919, presenting New York then as already a realm of danger and pleasure. (Oct.)
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Luc Sante, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $40 (99p) ISBN 978-0-374-15050-1
This slim volume contains a haunting collection of 55 black-and-white crime scene photographs made primarily between 1914 and 1918 by New York City police detectives investigating murders and suicides. Sante discovered this archive while researching
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Luc Sante. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-29932-3
This vivid and thorough compendium describes the history of the Paris neighborhoods historically occupied by the poor, the dirty, and other undesirables. Focusing primarily on the 19th and 20th centuries, Sante zigzags through the arrondissements,...
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Lucy Sante. Experiment, $24.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-61519-865-8
New York Review of Books contributor Sante (Low Life) plumbs in this rewarding study the history of New York City’s reservoirs and the displacement that followed the city’s increasing demand for water. Sante swiftly covers New York City’s first...
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