June 2012
2 posts
May 2012
18 posts
“The writerly path from America to Paris is so trampled at this point, what more...”
– NYTimes.com
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...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux: Rosecrans Baldwin on... →
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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…
“Baldwin’s portrait of his office life is funny, filmic, and shocking: a Judd...”
– The Boston Globe
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...
The Leonard Lopate Show - Paris, I Love You but... →
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...
“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
“Puts a lot of French fantasies to rest—and replaces them with realities worthy...”
– Shelf Awareness
“Mr. Sarkozy, president of the rich, was always more our man than theirs.”
– NYTimes
“It’s a little ballsy at this point to write an American-in-Paris memoir, given...”
– Slate Magazine
Cliché is Not a Parisian Word: Nathaniel... →
April 2012
15 posts
“Beautiful landscapes, wild hills. It’s not very manicured. It’s sort...”
– Q&A with GQ
Flavorwire » 10 Books Starring Cities →
“Americans and French people are more likely to tell you what they believe, why...”
– Interview Magazine
“The fulfillment of a lifelong dream — and the resulting stories — had us...”
– Daily Candy
“A very realistic and moving portrait of a young married couple, and a...”
– Open Letters Monthly
Episode 61 — Rosecrans Baldwin | Other People with... →
“Brilliantly conveys how even the most mind-numbing antics can’t tamper...”
– NPR
“Baldwin’s lack of preparation is what makes the book so much fun.”
– Grantland
“A charming entry into the expat canon, this book is Baldwin’s true story of...”
– Flavorwire » 10 New Must-Reads for April
March 2012
6 posts
“The novelist Rosecrans Baldwin was once all poetic about Paree. It was “an...”
– NYTimes
“Why did Paris affect me so deeply? Why did this imperial, ceremonious,...”
– “My Paris”, Saul Bellow
“Working-class Paris is resisting rather better than people say. The Chinese at...”
– New Left Review - Eric Hazan: Faces of Paris
February 2012
3 posts
“A charming, hilarious account of la vie Parisienne as experienced by an...”
– Kirkus Book Reviews (Starred Review)
September 2011
1 post
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…
March 2011
1 post
