Maybe the People Would Be the Times

Maybe the People Would Be the Times
Title Maybe the People Would Be the Times PDF eBook
Author Luc Sante
Publisher
Pages 336
Release 2020-09-22
Genre Art
ISBN 9781891241574

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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 item carries deep personal significance, and most are rooted in lived experience, in particular Sante's youth on the Lower East Side of New York in the fertile 1970s and '80s. He traces his deep engagement with music, his experience of the city, his progression as an artist and observer, his love life and ambitions. Maybe the People Would Be the Times is organized as a series of sequences, in which one piece leads into the next. Memoir flows into essay, fiction into critical writing, humor into poetry, the pieces answering and echoing one another, examining subjects from multiple vantages. The collection shows Sante at his most lyrical, impassioned, and imaginative, a writer for whom every assignment brings the challenge of inventing a new form.

Maybe the People Would Be the Times

Maybe the People Would Be the Times
Title Maybe the People Would Be the Times PDF eBook
Author Luc Sante
Publisher Verse Chorus Press
Pages 301
Release 2020-09-22
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1891241729

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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 item carries deep personal significance, and most are rooted in lived experience, in particular Sante's youth on the Lower East Side of New York in the fertile 1970s and '80s. He traces his deep engagement with music, his experience of the city, his progression as an artist and observer, his love life and ambitions. Maybe the People Would Be the Times is organized as a series of sequences, in which one piece leads into the next. Memoir flows into essay, fiction into critical writing, humor into poetry, the pieces answering and echoing one another, examining subjects from multiple vantages. The collection shows Sante at his most lyrical, impassioned, and imaginative, a writer for whom every assignment brings the challenge of inventing a new form.

Low Life

Low Life
Title Low Life PDF eBook
Author Lucy Sante
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 542
Release 2016-03-08
Genre History
ISBN 1466895632

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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 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 four different directions. Part One examines the actual topography of Manhattan from 1840 to 1919; Part Two, the era’s opportunities for vice and entertainment—theaters and saloons, opium and cocaine dens, gambling and prostitution; Part Three investigates the forces of law and order which did and didn’t work to contain the illegalities; Part Four counterposes the city’s tides of revolt and idealism against the city as it actually was. Low Life is one of the most provocative books about urban life ever written—an evocation of the mythology of the quintessential modern metropolis, which has much to say not only about New York’s past but about the present and future of all cities.

Kill All Your Darlings

Kill All Your Darlings
Title Kill All Your Darlings PDF eBook
Author Luc Sante
Publisher ReadHowYouWant.com
Pages 354
Release 2011-04-25
Genre Art
ISBN 1459618726

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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. Kill All Your Darlings is the first collection of Sante's...

Love? Maybe

Love? Maybe
Title Love? Maybe PDF eBook
Author Heather Hepler
Publisher Speak
Pages 290
Release 2013
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0142423866

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Wary of romance following her mother's second divorce and resisting her friends' attempts to fix her up with the hottest guy in school, Piper's life is complicated when she receives a series of valentines from a secret admirer.

Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe

Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe
Title Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe PDF eBook
Author Bette Greene
Publisher Penguin
Pages 100
Release 1999-06-01
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1101128054

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This title has been removed from sale by Penguin Group, USA.

Dad's Maybe Book

Dad's Maybe Book
Title Dad's Maybe Book PDF eBook
Author Tim O'Brien
Publisher Mariner Books
Pages 403
Release 2019
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0618039708

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A bestselling author shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned inwartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons.