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Books by Luc Sante
  | | O.K. You Mugs(1st Edition) Writers on Movie Actors by Luc Sante, Melissa Holbrook Pierson, John Updike, Patti Smith, Jonathan Williams Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 1999 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-375-40101-5, ISBN: 0-375-40101-6 "Apparently Cecil B DeMille called the sight of Calamity Jane, played by Jean Arthur, hanging beside Wild Bill Hickock "the most erotic scene ever filmed". According to John Updike, Doris Day so disliked her marquee name that her friends called her, amongst other things, Suzie Creamcheese. If your response is "Who?" or "Who cares!" then this book may not be for you. If not, read on. "Actors are our spectral friends [who] loom in our liv ..." |
 | | Kill All Your Darlings(1st Edition) Pieces 1990-2005 by Luc Sante, Greil Marcus Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2007 by Yeti Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-891241-53-6, ISBN: 1-891241-53-2 "In his books and in a string of wide-ranging and inventive essays, Luc Sante has shown himself to be not only one of our pre-eminent stylists, but also a critic of uncommon power and range. He is one of the handful of living masters of the American language, as well as a singular historian and philosopher of American experience,” says the New Yorker’s Peter Schjeldahl. Kill All Your Darlings is the first collection of Sante’s articles ..." |
 | | Low Life(1st Edition) Lures and Snares of Old New York by Luc Sante Paperback, 460 Pages, Published 2003 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52899-7, ISBN: 0-374-52899-3 "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 ..." |
 | | The Factory of Facts by Luc Sante Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1999 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-74650-8, ISBN: 0-679-74650-1 "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, Luc Sante transformed himself from a pious, timid Belgian boy into a loutish American adolescent, who eschewed French while fantasizing about the pop star Françoise Hardy. To show how this transformation came about--and why it remain ..." |
 | | On Planet Earth(1st Edition) Travels in an Unfamiliar Land by Luc Sante, Jan Staller Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 1899 by Aperture ISBN-13: 978-0-89381-730-5, ISBN: 0-89381-730-9 "On Planet Earth: Travels in an Unfamiliar Land collects Jan Staller's strangely seductive photographs from locations across the United States and around the world.-from abandoned factories to military test sites, from high-tech water-purification plants to heavy machinery that looks like it fell from outer space. Staller's square-format and panoramic photographs reveal bizarre and forgotten constructions of industrial society, set again ..." |
 | | The Paris An illustrated journey through a city's poor and Bohemian past by Luc Sante, Sante L. Staff Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-24129-3, ISBN: 0-571-24129-8 "Paris, the City of Light. We think of it as the city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of white façades, discreet traffic and well-mannered exchanges. But there was another Paris, hidden from view and virtually extinct today - the Paris of the working and criminal classes that shaped the city over the past two centuries. In the voices of Balzac and Hugo, assorted boulevardiers, barflies, rabble-rousers and tramps, Sante takes the read ..." |
 | | Low Life(Reprint) Lures and Snares of Old New York by Luc Sante Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 1992 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73876-3, ISBN: 0-679-73876-2 "There are very few classics in the field of pop culture--the academic stuff tends to be too dry and the fun stuff is too quickly dated. 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. The personal histories of criminals, prostitutes, losers, and swindlers bring to life the social and statistical history that the autho ..." |
 | | The Big Con(1st Edition) The Story of the Confidence Man by David W. Maurer, Luc Sante Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1999 by Anchor Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-385-49538-7, ISBN: 0-385-49538-2 ""Of all the grifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat, " wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitively proved in The Big Con, one of the most colorful, well-researched, and entertaining works of criminology, ever written. A professor of linguistics who specialized in underworld argot. Maurer won the trust of hundreds of swindlers who let him in on not simply their language, but their folkways and the astonishingly complex and e ..." |
 | | The Other Paris(Reprint) by Luc Sante Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2016 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53645-9, ISBN: 0-374-53645-7 "A trip through Paris as it will never be again--dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemianParis, the City of Lights, 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 Paris, Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of that second metropolis, whi ..." |
 | | The Tumultuous Fifties(1st Edition) A View from the New York Times Photo Archives by Prof. Alan Trachtenberg, Douglas Dreishpoon, Nancy Weinstock, Luc Sante, Douglas Dreishpon Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2001 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-08821-2, ISBN: 0-300-08821-3 "The Cold War, Sputnik, Joseph McCarthy, Fidel Castro, the Rosenbergs, Marilyn Monroe, Rosa Parks, Father Knows Best and Rebel Without a Cause are just a few of the events, people, and cultural phenomena that marked the decade of the 1950s. This stunning book, a collection of two hundred large-scale duotone photographs of the 1950s culled from the New York Times photo archives, brings this watershed period to life and examines who and wh ..." |
 | | The Rare Coin Score(Reprint) A Parker Novel (Parker Novels) by Richard Stark, Luc Sante, Donald E. Westlake Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77107-6, ISBN: 0-226-77107-5 "Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark's eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in hardboiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-sharp prose style-and adored by fans who turn each intoxicating page with increasing urgency-Stark is a master of crime writing, his books as influential as any in the genre. The University of Chicago Press has embarked on a pr ..." |
 | | Novels in Three Lines (New York Review Books Classics) by Felix Feneon, Luc Sante Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2007 by Nyrb Classics Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-230-8, ISBN: 1-59017-230-2 "A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL "Novels in Three Lines" collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906--true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered until the 1940s and here translated for the first time into English, is the work of the mysterious Felix Feneon. D ..." |
 | | Maggie, a Girl of the Streets and Other New York Writings(Updated) (Modern Library Classics) by Stephen Crane, Luc Sante Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2001 by Modern Library Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-75689-4, ISBN: 0-375-75689-2 "Maggie: Girl of the Streets is an American novella by Stephen Crane. Maggie is a young girl from the Bowery in New York City who is kicked out of her tenement and eventually becomes a prostitute and dies in the streets. Maggie is a classic example of American fiction during the period of industrialization.Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to help ..." |
 | | The Count of Monte Cristo(Abridged) by Alexandre Dumas, Luc Sante, Alexandre Dumas Père, Alexandre Dumas Pã¨Re Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 2004 by Barnes & Noble Classics Abridged ISBN-13: 978-1-59308-151-5, ISBN: 1-59308-151-0 "&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LI&&RThe Count of Monte Cristo&&L/I&&R, by &&LSTRONG&&RAlexandre Dumas&&L/B&&R&&L/B&&R, is part of the &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R&&LI&&R &&L/I&&Rseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I& ..." |
 | | The Other Paris(1st Edition) The People's City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Luc Sante Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2015 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-29932-3, ISBN: 0-374-29932-3 "A trip through Paris as it will never be again-dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemian Paris, 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 Paris," Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of that second metropolis, wh ..." |
 | | Revisionist Art Thirty Works by Bob Dylan by Luc Sante, Bob Dylan, B. Clavery, Robert A. Smith, Gagosian Gallery Hardcover, 156 Pages, Published 2013 by Harry N. Abrams ISBN-13: 978-1-4197-0979-1, ISBN: 1-4197-0979-8 "In Revisionist Art, Bob Dylan offers silkscreened covers of popular magazines from the last half century that somehow escaped history’s notice. As Luc Sante says in his introduction to this collection, they seem to emanate, from a world just slightly removed from ours--a world a bit more honest about its corruption, its chronic horniness, its sweat, its body odor.” Art critic B. Clavery provides a history of Revisionist Art, from cave ..." |
 | | Folk Photography(1st Edition) The American Real-Photo Postcard, 1905–1930 by Luc Sante Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2009 by Yeti Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-891241-55-0, ISBN: 1-891241-55-9 "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 amateurs and professionals alike. They were not intended for tourists, but as a medium of communication fo ..." |
 | | The Factory of Facts(1st Edition) by Luc Sante Hardcover, 306 Pages, Published 1998 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-679-42410-9, ISBN: 0-679-42410-5 ""Like it or not, each one of us was made, less by blood or genes than by a process that is largely accidental, the impact of things seen and heard and smelled and tasted and endured in those few years before our clay hardened," writes Luc Sante. The Factory of Facts is his personal account of that process, less a memoir than an Identi-Kit self-portrait. Born in a factory town in southern Belgium in 1954, he was brought by his parents to ..." |
 | | Low Life(Reprint) Drinking, Drugging, Whoring, Murder, Corruption, Vice and Miscellaneous Mayhem in Old New York by Luc Sante Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1998 by Granta Books ISBN-13: 978-1-86207-132-2, ISBN: 1-86207-132-2 ""Low Life is about crimes and drugs and violence in the modern world's most glamorous city New York. This is true underground history, in which corrupt cops and immigrant gangs act out our outlaw dream of America."" |
 | | The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski(1st Edition) by Christian Boltanski, Catherine Grenier, Luc Sante, Marc Lowenthal Hardcover, 242 Pages, Published 2009 by Mfa Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-87846-746-4, ISBN: 0-87846-746-7 "Christian Boltanski's votive installations, archives and objects, revolving around the fragile polarities of memory and amnesia, identity and anonymity, have made him one of the world's most renowned contemporary artists. And yet, despite the centrality of biography and testimony to his work, Boltanski's own story is little known and has never been fully told. Published on the occasion of the artist's sixty-fifth birthday, "The Possible ..." |
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