Lucy Sante is back with a new memoir about her transition. Before its release, she talked to us about finally getting to explain herself.
at Washington Square Diner during one of the first snows in New York. After eating eggs and toast, we reminisced about white winters and the obvious lay between us: the changing shape of the world’s greatest city. Few blizzards grace us anymore, and Eric Adams is no help at all either.
SANTE: My gender cornerstone in films is the work of Jacques Rivette, whose films all had female protagonists. I experienced them directly as transgender works because Rivette was so clearly pouring himself into the heroine or heroines, thoughe never addressed the question of gender in print.) And when Bernadette Lafont and Geraldine Chaplin don pirate drag to enact Jacobean revenge drama inthe Scorsese film no one else appears to have seen. I love Claire Denis, of course.
BYRON: A lot of trans women have worked at the Strand, including you and me both, as well as Imogen Binnie and Zefyr Lisowski. It feels almost like a rite of passage. What was it like? BYRON: In the book, you write about an intergenerational friendship with a trans woman named Leor Miller. Can you talk about what she means to you and how you met?
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