Lucy Sante Recommends Five Books About Her Most Important Tool as a Writer: Memory

Lucy Sante Recommends Five Books About Her Most Important Tool as a Writer: Memory

The Windham-Campbell Prize Winner on Works by Frances A. Yates, Vladimir Nabokov, Donald Westlake, and More

By Lucy Sante | May 13, 2026

“Endlessly Seductive, Endlessly Terrifying.” Lucy Sante on the Idea and Reality of Transition

“Endlessly Seductive, Endlessly Terrifying.” Lucy Sante on the Idea and Reality of Transition

Considering the Long Journey Towards Embracing the True Self

By Lucy Sante | February 14, 2024

How Bob Dylan Blurred the Boundaries Between Literature and Popular Music

How Bob Dylan Blurred the Boundaries Between Literature and Popular Music

Lucy Sante on the Poetic Evolution of Mid-Century America's Folkloric Bard

By Lucy Sante | October 24, 2023

Lucy Sante on Writing with the Back Brain

Lucy Sante on Writing with the Back Brain

At the "Juncture Between Knowing and not Knowing"

By Lucy Sante | August 12, 2022

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