> <<compare it to Evidence by Luc Sante,
a
> picture book collecting century-old police crime
scene photos.
>
> Which brings me to my other nominee for hardboiled
non-fiction, Luc
> Sante's Low Life, which chronicles the life of the
poor in New York City
> around the turn of the century.>>
>
> Who is Luc Sante, anyway? I keep seeing his name pop
up in various places,
> but I haven't read anything about him. What's his
story?
He's a Belgian-American book reviewer. He tells his story in
"The Factory
of Facts," a book about the travails of growing up
Belgian-American (yes,
I know, my heart bleeds for the poor Walloons too).
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