June 2012
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Jun 1st
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May 2012
18 posts
“The writerly path from America to Paris is so trampled at this point, what more...”
– NYTimes.com
May 31st
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May 29th
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Teddy Wayne: Interview With Rosecrans Baldwin,... →
How did French machismo compare to American machismo, as exemplified by your coworkers? I actually don’t think there is machismo in America, unless it’s the cowboy type — the silent, smoking brooder. Machismo requires Latin blood. I’d say I never experienced machismo up close until I worked in a French office; the typical Wall Street gunner has the soul of a coffee...
May 23rd
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux: Rosecrans Baldwin on... →
fsgbooks: Third week in December, I risked my life and rented a Vélib to ride to work. Face-smacking loveliness of a day, and while I navigated around Place de la Concorde and began climbing up the Champs-Elysées, I heard a loud rushing RRRrrriiiiiipppppppp. Whence cometh hell. It had sounded like a…
May 23rd
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“Baldwin’s portrait of his office life is funny, filmic, and shocking: a Judd...”
– The Boston Globe
May 21st
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May 21st
May 21st
The Myth of Parisian Life →
Americans, and especially New Yorkers, are expert at combining activities like eating, drinking coffee, and doing laundry while working at the same time. Is the image of the restful French executive, the 35-hour week, the two-hour lunch, mythical or basically true? I think it’s mythical. The lunch hour exists, and is respected, and people do take their five weeks of vacation. But at least...
May 18th
The Leonard Lopate Show - Paris, I Love You but... →
May 18th
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Nine Paris Apartments In Eleven Hours | The Awl →
The next two apartments were under construction. A fourth apartment, north of the Luxembourg Gardens on a demure, quintessential Parisian street, was all green. Green walls, green drapes, green furniture. Kitchen appliances in avocado. The only thing that wasn’t green (the doorknobs were green) was in the bedroom, behind a chair: a large trompe l’oeil painting of women’s lingerie hanging on...
May 16th
May 15th
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“I will die in Paris with a rainstorm, on a day I already remember”
– Black Stone on a White Stone by César Vallejo : Poetry Magazine
May 14th
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“Puts a lot of French fantasies to rest—and replaces them with realities worthy...”
– Shelf Awareness
May 10th
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May 8th
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“Mr. Sarkozy, president of the rich, was always more our man than theirs.”
– NYTimes
May 7th
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“It’s a little ballsy at this point to write an American-in-Paris memoir, given...”
– Slate Magazine
May 6th
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Cliché is Not a Parisian Word: Nathaniel... →
May 4th
May 2nd
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April 2012
15 posts
“Beautiful landscapes, wild hills. It’s not very manicured. It’s sort...”
– Q&A with GQ
Apr 29th
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Apr 27th
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Flavorwire » 10 Books Starring Cities →
Apr 26th
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“Americans and French people are more likely to tell you what they believe, why...”
– Interview Magazine
Apr 24th
“The fulfillment of a lifelong dream — and the resulting stories — had us...”
– Daily Candy
Apr 24th
Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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“A very realistic and moving portrait of a young married couple, and a...”
– Open Letters Monthly
Apr 18th
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Episode 61 — Rosecrans Baldwin | Other People with... →
Apr 16th
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“Brilliantly conveys how even the most mind-numbing antics can’t tamper...”
– NPR
Apr 16th
Apr 4th
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“Baldwin’s lack of preparation is what makes the book so much fun.”
– Grantland
Apr 4th
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“A charming entry into the expat canon, this book is Baldwin’s true story of...”
– Flavorwire » 10 New Must-Reads for April
Apr 2nd
March 2012
6 posts
Mar 9th
Mar 9th
“The novelist Rosecrans Baldwin was once all poetic about Paree. It was “an...”
– NYTimes
Mar 9th
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“Why did Paris affect me so deeply? Why did this imperial, ceremonious,...”
– “My Paris”, Saul Bellow
Mar 6th
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Mar 2nd
“Working-class Paris is resisting rather better than people say. The Chinese at...”
– New Left Review - Eric Hazan: Faces of Paris
Mar 1st
February 2012
3 posts
Feb 29th
Feb 28th
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“A charming, hilarious account of la vie Parisienne as experienced by an...”
– Kirkus Book Reviews (Starred Review)
Feb 24th
September 2011
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Powell's "Writers to Watch" list →
“Tomorrow’s great writers are hard at work today, writing and publishing the books that will make them famous. We can’t be sure who they’ll be until we get there, but we could guess…
Sep 22nd
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March 2011
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Mar 15th