LUCY SANTE - Kill All Your Darlings
In her books (Low Life, The Factory of Facts) and in a string of wide-ranging and inventive essays Lucy Sante has shown herself to be not only one of our pre-eminent stylists, but also a critic of uncommon power and range.
Kill All Your Darlings is the first collection of her articles—many of which first appeared in the New York Review of Books and the Village Voice—and offers ample justification for this high praise. Alongside meditations on cigarettes, factory work, and hipness, and the critical tour de force, “The Invention of the Blues,” Sante offers her incomparable take on icons from Arthur Rimbaud to Bob Dylan, René Magritte to Tintin, Buddy Bolden to Walker Evans, Allen Ginsberg to Robert Mapplethorpe.
Introduction by Greil Marcus
