About this Event
Lucy Sante and Guy Trebay will be in conversation on their recent memoirs—Sante’s I Heard Her Call My Name and Trebay’s Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New York.
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+ About the Authors +
Lucy Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, K*ll All Your Darlings, Folk Photography, The Other Paris, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, and Nineteen Reservoirs. Her awards include a Whiting Writers Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Grammy Award (for album notes), an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, and Guggenheim and Cullman Center fellowships.
Guy Trebay has chronicled culture, high and low, since the 1970s, writing for The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Interview, Esquire, Artforum, and many other publications. For the past two decades, he has been a style reporter and critic for The New York Times.
+ About the Memoirs +
I Heard Her Call My Name is an iconic writer's lapidary memoir of a life spent pursuing a dream of artistic truth while evading the truth of her own gender identity, until, finally, she turned to face who she really was. “Reading this book is a joy,” writes The Washington Post. Sante is funny and warm . . . I Heard Her Call My Name has much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a standard for those in need of guidance. But the book speaks to a wider audience, too: for anyone who needs to break out of their self-imposed 'Pr*son of denial,’ as Sante puts it, or to stop punishing themselves for wanting what they want."
Do Something is an evocative coming-of-age memoir—the story of the education of a wayward wild child and acidhead who, searching for meaning and purpose, found refuge in the demimonde of the ruined but magical metropolis that was New York City in the 1970s. “Do Something is so beautiful and so personal that one feels like an intimate friend after reading Trebay's tale of New York in the 1970's,” raves fashion designer Tom Ford. “I loved it all. It's the mark of something powerful when a voice lingers in one's head after one reads a book, and Trebay's voice rings incredibly clear."
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Kinderhook Books, 10 Broad Street, Kinderhook, United States
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