Her books include Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (1991) and I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition (2024).

She became a regular contributor there, writing about film, art, photography, and miscellaneous cultural phenomena, as well as book reviews.

Her books include Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (1991), a non-fiction book documenting the life and politics of lower Manhattan from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century;[5][6][7] Evidence (1992), the autobiographical The Factory of Facts (1998), Walker Evans (1999), Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005 (2007), Folk Photography (2009), The Other Paris (2015), Maybe the People Would Be the Times (2022), and Nineteen Reservoirs (2023).

[8] Sante also translated and edited Félix Fénéon's Novels in Three Lines (2007) for New York Review Books.

I started...hormone replacement therapy in early May....You can call me Lucy (but I won't freak out if you misgender me) and my pronoun, thankyouverymuch, is she.