Rosecrans Baldwin
Rosecrans Baldwin
Rosecrans Baldwin is an American novelist and essayist. He is also a co-founder and editor of The Morning News, an online magazine. Born in Chicago, Illinois, raised in Darien, Connecticut Baldwin now lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his wife...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 March 1977
CountryUnited States of America
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That's the thing: once it's in their hands, it's not my book anymore, it's theirs. I have no idea what happens when they start to digest it. So when someone writes me to explain how they read it, what it was like, what they enjoyed, there's a thrill. Writers who don't make their email addresses public are missing out on something wonderful.
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Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.
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Rosecrans is a family name - it used to be a last name in our family.
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My mother still has a three-step system to eating candy corn. First she eats the white tip, then the orange middle, then the yellow end. She swears each segment tastes different.
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I think one of my favorite things about Paris is the ever-present, nonstop beauty of the city. So I would just walk as much as possible.
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No one really knows the value of book tours. Whether or not they're good ideas, or if they improve book sales. I happen to think the author is the last person you'd want to talk to about a book. They hate it by that point; they've already moved on to a new lover. Besides, the author never knows what the book is about anyway.
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To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there.
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My confession: I listen to great music very badly.
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By and large, the Mexican food in Paris is horrible.
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In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me, the experience of being in that other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.
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Of course, there's no reason that Paris should have decent Mexican food. It's a silly expectation - there's a Mexican population in Paris, but they're not exactly traveling there from across the border. Paris also doesn't do Peruvian all that well, either.
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France and America have a long history of mutual loathing and longing. Americans still dream of Paris; Parisians still dream of the America they find in the movies of David Lynch.
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Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.
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If I see a roll of Bubble Tape, a bag of Haribo Gold-Bears or a pouch of green-apple Big League Chew, I'm eleven again.