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C.M. Lucca was a staff writer for the City Paper from 1982 to 1989, and a Pulitzer winner for her investigative reporting. Despite that, she’s now best known as the widow of the conceptual artist, songwriter, and provocateuse X. After X’s death in 1996 Lucca investigated her life and uncovered her origins in the Southern Territory, among other secrets. Lucca’s only book, Biography of X, was a instant bestseller upon its publication in March 2005.

This conversation between critic Dan Kois and C.M. Lucca took place at the New York Public Library on May 31, 2005, a few months after that publication. Though subsequent events made this evening notorious, the conversation itself is of great interest, given how few public appearances Lucca made. A videotape of that evening was recently unearthed by the staff of the weekly magazine Slate; the interview is published here, in slightly edited form, for the first time.

Dan Kois: Please welcome to the stage prizewinning journalist, bestselling author, widow of X: C.M. Lucca.

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