Rosecrans Baldwin

Publishers Weekly Top 10 Travel Books Spring 2012… O, The Oprah Magazine’s Best Books of June… Kirkus starred review: “A charming, hilarious account of la vie Parisienne by an observant young American… Great fun and surprisingly touching”… Boston Globe: “Baldwin’s portrait of his office life is funny, filmic, and shocking: a Judd Apatow film in the waiting”… NPR: “Brilliantly conveys how even the most mind-numbing antics can’t tamper one’s true love for Paris”… Marie-Claire: “A très drole memoir”… Atlantic Monthly: “Deftly written, with a wry style and liberally deployed irony. And it’s very funny”… New York Times: “[A snapshot] taken with a high-quality, sharply focused lens. ‘Living in Paris while barely speaking French was like drinking coffee through a veil,’ Mr. Baldwin writes”… Slate: “What makes Baldwin’s book particularly enjoyable is that it engages with the clash of our American idea of Paris and Paris the modern reality”… Flavorwire: “You’ve never seen Paris quite like this.” Interview Magazine: “Paints a vibrant new Paris, struggling valiantly to reinvent itself”… GQ: “It’s this balance of the city’s dirty deceptions… with the timeless elegance of every boulevard and back-alley bistro that makes the book feel so necessary and welcome”… ESPN’s Grantland: “Baldwin is the perfect travel companion”… Newsday: “A comical record of elation, anxiety and disillusionment… Charming and funny”… Wall Street Journal: “For lovers of well-turned phrases”…Daily Candy: “The fulfillment of a lifelong dream — and the resulting stories — had us laughing all weekend”… Library Journal: “A book to tempt anyone flirting with the idea of life abroad”… BookPage: “The book is as much about big life choices—work, family and purpose—as it is about a place…” Huffington Post: “Wryly astute”…The Roanoke Times: “Baldwin is a vibrant and keenly observant writer, and this charming diary is both tender and funny”… The New York Times T Magazine: “The novelist Rosecrans Baldwin was once all poetic about Paree. It was ‘an umbrella, a dream I carried around in case the weather turned bad.’ But when he finally moves there, cultural pratfalls and office politics turn the city into ‘a melancholy bubble.’” Open Letters Monthly: “A very realistic and moving portrait of a young married couple, and a psychologically intricate – and very, very funny – portrait of a workplace”… Maine Sunday Telegram: “As he prepares to leave France, Baldwin tries to name the syndrome whereby one is actually in Paris and missing it at the same time. Readers may finish this book with a similar fondness”…