The New York Times Reviews Lucy Sante’s New Memoir, I Heard Her Call My Name

Lucy Sante, writer, critic, and former Bard faculty member, worried over her byline. What would become of her old name, her deadname, which “was, in a sense, my shop sign,” she writes in her new memoir, I Heard Her Call My Name (Penguin Press, 2024). “Would I be risking my public identity as a writer by changing it?” Dwight Garner, book critic for the New York Times, doesn’t think so. “Her memoir is moving for many reasons, but primarily for its observations about aging and vanity, as seen through the separated colors of a prismatic lens,” he writes, and that Sante’s “sharpness and sanity, moodiness and skepticism are the appeal.” “I Heard Her Call My Name will not be, I hope, the final memoir from Lucy Sante,” writes Garner. “It’s a story worth following, to watch her ring the bells that will still ring.” I Heard Her Call My Name will be published on February 13, 2024.

Post Date: 02-06-2024