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Luc Sante

Belgium   (1954 - )
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About Luc Sante
Luc Sante was born in Verviers, Belgium in 1954, and emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1963. He attended Columbia University and since 1984 has been a full-time writer. Luc Sante is a book critic for New York magazine, a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, and a senior contributor to the internet magazine Slate. He has written about books, films, art, photography, and miscellaneous cultural phenomenona for many other periodicals. He received a Whiting Writer's Award in 1989, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992-93, and, in 1997, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York City with his wife, the writer Melissa Holbrook Pierson. He is writing a book about the picture postcard and prewar America.
 
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Camera Obscura (2004) (with Abelardo Morell)
Camera Obscura
 
Luc Sante recommends
Mary After All
Mary After All (2004)
Bill Gordon
"Bill Gordon's Mary After All is sweet, funny, engrossing, and uncannily real, in the very best sense of that term. You feel like you could just move in for a while--Mary will feed you and put you up on the couch. You may not want to leave, though."






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