Re: RARA-AVIS: HB nonfiction

Joshua B Lukin (jblukin@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Mon, 6 Jul 1998 16:16:18 -0400 (EDT) On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 dspurlock@humana.com wrote:

> <<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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