in 1991 luc sante wrote a dizzying look at the seedy side of old new york in his book low life he gave us a taste of the bowery before it was rotting with galleries and upscale dining he resided in the now-legendary poets’ building on east 12th street during the rough-and-tumble 1980s with neighbors like richard hell rene ricard and richard prince sante — who recently published the other paris a love story about the forgotten history of our favorite european stomping ground — is a contemporary man of letters resuscitating the half-remembered foot soldiers of society one street corner at a time portrait by ALEXIS DAHAN interview by bill powers BILL POWERS — We are sitting inside The St. Regis Hotel, at the King Cole Bar, in New York. This is where Marcel Duchamp told Calvin Tomkins to meet him for the first time. Do you believe that…