When my wife and I divorced, 17 years ago, she handed me an envelope containing all the Valentine’s cards I’d given her over the 14 years we were together. These are some of them.
Lucy Sante is a Belgian-born American writer, critic, and artist. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Her books include Low Life (1991), Kill All Your Darlings (2007), Maybe the People Would Be the Times (2020), and most recently I Heard Her Call My Name (2024) published by Penguin Press. She is also the translator of Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines (2007) published by NYRB (New York Review Books).
