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  • Nineteen Reservoirs

    On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City

    by Lucy Sante ...
    Now in paperback: acclaimed author Lucy Sante's "eye-opening tale of the greed and corruption but also diplomacy and ingenuity" ( The Washington Post) involved in the creation of the upstate reservoir system that makes New York City's existence possible—but irreparably altered rural ecosystems and communitiesFrom 1907 to 1967, a network of reservoirs and aqueducts was built across more than one ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • My Heart & I Agree

    by Lucy Sante ...
    From Pulitzer Prize finalist Lucy Sante (I Heard Her Call My Name), a new collection of essays and reflections, mixing memoir with incisive writing about photography, music, literature, and film.Here she learns to dance by watching Soul Train, dissects the image of the cowboy, reads the telephone book, visits famous writers, tours dead factories, wonders whatever happened to the revolution, ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • The Factory of Facts

    A Memoir

    by Lucy Sante ...
    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, Lucy Sante transformed herself from a pious, timid Belgian child into a boisterous American adolescent, who eschewed French while fantasizing about the pop star Françoise Hardy. To show how ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Maybe the People Would Be the Times

    by Lucy Sante ...
    In his second collection (after Kill All Your Darlings, 2007), Luc Sante pays homage to Patti Smith, Rene Ricard, and Georges Simenon; traces the history of tabloids; surveys the landscape that gave birth to the Beastie Boys; explores the back alleys of vernacular photography; sounds a threnody for the forgotten dead of New York City.The glue holding the collection together is autobiography. Every ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Low Life

    Lures and Snares of Old New York

    by Lucy Sante ...
    The classic social history of corruption and vice in nineteenth-century NYC: "A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves" (John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review).Lucy 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 ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Other Paris

    by Lucy Sante ...
    " The Other Paris is both eulogy and paean to the matrixes of anarchy, creativity, crime, and serendipity that once gave shape to the City of Light." —Anna Wiener, The New RepublicParis, 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 ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • I Heard Her Call My Name

    A Memoir of Transition

    by Lucy Sante ...
    **FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZENamed a Best Book of the Year byThe New York Times, The Washington Post, and Slate“Reading this book is a joy . . . much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a standard for those in need of guidance. ” —The Washington Post“Sante’s bold devotion to complexity and clarity makes this an exemplary memoir. It is a clarion call to live one’s most ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cigarettes

    by Harry Mathews ...
    Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State.Though nothing is as simple as it might appear to be, we could describe this as a story about Allen, who is married to Maud but having an affair with Elizabeth, who lives with Maud. Or say it is a story about fraud in the art world, ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Folk Photography

    The American Real-Photo Postcard, 1905-1930

    by Lucy Sante ...
    A new edition, revised and expanded, of Lucy Sante's classic history of the real-photo postcard, with 130 images and a new afterword.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 ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Kill All Your Darlings

    Pieces 1990-2005

    by Lucy Sante ...
    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 ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Evidence

    by Lucy Sante ...
    "These 55 raw, stark photos of the dead—victims of murder or suicides—are both fascinating and horrifying . . . [a] highly original piece of social history." — Library JournalFollowing Low Life, Lucy Sante's acclaimed evocation of the underside of New York City's history, Evidence is an investigation into the mysteries of crime, death, and photography that only this brilliant and original writer ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Thrilled to Death

    Selected Stories

    by Lynne Tillman, Lucy Sante ...
    Narrated by Daniela Acitelli ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 12 min

    From award-winning novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman, Thrilled to Death is a collection of selected stories across the career of America's most audacious writerAmong the vanguard of American literary writers, Lynne Tillman's work has defied categorization throughout her legendary career—a singular body of work that both redefined and reimagined the short story form entirely.Curated by the ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook