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" My father-in-law has ear hair like a wolverine. It fans out from the auricles, wafting from the ridge lines like cilia, like gray feathered plumage. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

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" I think the place we love the most is the Parc des Buttes Chaumont. It's in the 19th arrondissement. It's where I would go jogging and my wife, Rachel, and I would go for walks. It's appreciated by Parisians but it's not really known to tourists. "

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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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" 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. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" 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. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" 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 filter in comparison. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us. "

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" About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" My ideal vacation isn't about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don't speak the language, go hiking, then plop down in a sunny square, have drinks, read a book, and see what happens. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don't sound too bad when they're played through lousy speakers. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We'd travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats. "

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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. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" My confession: I listen to great music very badly. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room for mistakes when you're competing against the sun for a person's attention. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" Frankly, it's depressing, each night sleeping in someone else's home. I miss having a roof to my name. Our situation isn't an 'All in the Family' cliche, but it's still easy to see reality in plain terms: I live with my in-laws, and I can't say when that will change. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" 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. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" Rosecrans is a family name - it used to be a last name in our family. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" 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. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" By and large, the Mexican food in Paris is horrible. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head that if you wanted to be the most urbane, living-life-to-the-fullest kind of person, Paris was the place to be. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" 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. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" Americans love popcorn, and their love doesn't quit. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" When I went to Paris, I had a lot of ideas about it that were formed in the sort of ether that flows about if you watch too many recent Woody Allen movies or took French classes as a kid. I was certainly full of those. "

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