Rosecrans Baldwin is the guest. He’s a co-founder of The Morning News and the author of a new memoir called Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down, available on April 24th from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.
Kirkus, in a starred review, calls it “great fun and surprisingly touching.”
Very excited to have Rosecrans on the program.
Topics of conversation include: girls with boy names, boys with girl names, the Mayflower, Paris, French military might, French films, Eagle Scouts, books, movies, identity, escape, advertising, Sofia Coppola, Louis Vuitton, fashion crises, OCD, trench coats, hoodies, Bonobos pants, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Good Omens, Colby, Frank O’Hara, poetry, despair, the Internet, The Morning News, good cheer, novels, consciousness, blogging, zines, book tour, golf shirts, and indie situations.
Monologue topics: Paris Hilton, Paris, idiocy, George Whitman, Shakespeare & Company, pigeons, bird shit, luck.
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Oh, this has to be my new favorite episode! Such a great, natural conversation plus the Paris connection! I’ve been living in Paris for 5+ years (via Chapel Hill and New York), so many aspects of the interview resonated for me. The title of Baldwin’s memoir pretty much sums it up.
I can’t join in on the whole clothes thing, however. I do understand the desire to blend in that the two of you discussed, but I kind of went the other way. As soon as I accepted that I would never fit in in France – or have that magical je ne sais quoi that French women seem to possess – I started having a lot more fun. The fact that wearing red boots or (gasp!) sneakers actually makes French people look at me strangely just strikes me as funny. Paris is teaching me how to (re)find comfort in my own skin in a foreign place.
Thanks as always for lovely Sunday listening.