Episode 165: Lucy Sante

Tuck chats with writer Lucy Sante (she/her). Topics include: 

• Why Lucy finally transitioned after avoiding it for nearly 60 years
• Why the worst trans memoirs are like pre-cooked bacon
• What does it mean to identify as a bohemian?
• Reading about the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries in the newspaper as a high school student
• Plus: Trans lit recs; vibe shifts at the Strand; and how Harry Potter ruined a visit to a Portuguese bookstore

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Find Lucy at lucysante.com. I Heard Her Call My Name is available now.

Other texts referenced:

• Low Life by Lucy Sante 
• Nevada by Imogen Binnie
• Andrea Long Chu (generally)
• Can the Monster Speak? by Paul Preciado
• I Want What I Want by Geoff Brown
• April Ashley’s Odyssey by Duncan Fallowell & April Ashley 
• Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
• Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• An Anecdoted Topography of Chance by Daniel Spoerri
• A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke
• Maybe the People Would Be the Times by Lucy Sante
• “Commerce” by Lucy Sante (link)

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