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Author most recently of Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me DownGQ's Best Books of 2012, Oprah Magazine's Best Books of June 2012, Publishers Weekly's Best Travel Books of Spring 2012.

Debut novel – You Lost Me ThereNew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, Best Books of 2010 (NPR), Best Books of Summer 2010 (TIME, Entertainment Weekly).

Book reviewer for NPR's "All Things Considered." Co-founder of The Morning News.

"Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down" makes NPR's Summer 2012 Critics' Lists


For all its downbeat title, this memoir is a love story about the city and its people. Saying goodbye to Paris, says Baldwin, is something a person does only when he knows that he’s dying. “Until then, Paris was forever one day soon.”

Jun 26, 2012