Luc Sante is a writer and critic. He was born in Verviers, Belgium in 1954, and emigrated to the United States in the early 1960s. His books include "Low Life" (1991), "Evidence" (1992), "The Factory of Facts" (1998), "Walker Evans" (1999), and "Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005" (2007). He co-edited, with his wife, the writer Melissa Holbrook Pierson, "O. K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors" (1998), and translated and edited Félix Fénéon's "Novels in Three Lines" (2007). He attended Columbia University and since 1984 has been a full-time writer. Luc Sante is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books (where he worked first in the mailroom and then as assistant to Barbara Epstein), and 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, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1997, and a Grammy, for album notes, in 1998. He lives in Ulster County, New York, and teaches at Bard College. Center of Verviers Verviers is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Liège. ... Melissa Holbrook Pierson, born 1957 in Akron, Ohio, is a writer and essayist of non-fiction, and currently lives in New York state, United States. ... Félix Fénéon, painted by Paul Signac in 1890. ... Columbia University is a private research university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ... The New York Review of Books (or NYRB) is a biweekly magazine on literature, culture, and current affairs published in New York which takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity. ... Barbara L. Epstein (1929 – June 16, 2006) was a Jewish-American journalist, historian and sociologist. ... For other meanings of the word Bard, see Bard (disambiguation). ...

External links

• Believer interview
• "Plastics" by Luc Sante

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