{"product_id":"maybe-the-people-would-be-luc-sante-9781891241574","title":"Maybe the People Would Be the Times","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his second collection (after \u003ci\u003eKill All Your Darlings\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lucy Sante\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1891241575\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781891241574\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verse Chorus Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.10d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lucy Sante","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051670139135,"sku":"9781891241574","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f20f6d17-1836-4c15-8558-c86a2aa0f1b7.jpg?v=1685014473","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/maybe-the-people-would-be-luc-sante-9781891241574","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}