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Lucy Sante


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Verviers, Belgium
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Lucy Sante was born in Verviers Belgium and emigrated to the United States in the early 1960s. Since 1984, she has been a teacher and writer, and frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. Her publications include Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, and The Factory of Facts and Folk Photography. She currently teaches creative writing and the history of photography at Bard College in New York State.

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Evidence
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“Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by woodland creatures, and then they never left. Books collected on every surface; I believe that somehow they managed to breed”
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“Mention me when they ask you what happened. I am everywhere under your feet.”
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“I realize that books are not the entire world, even if they sometimes seem
to contain it. But I need the stupid things.”
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