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Rosecrans Baldwin

American Novelist

Born: Mar 30, 1977

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My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It's not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they're dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person. 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

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

Relatives Recession Solid Against Loving Meals Levees

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. Rosecrans Baldwin

You Too Took Kid Those Classes About Allen Paris Had Ideas French Sort Were Lot Woody Woody Allen Formed Movies Ether Full Certainly Many Watch Recent Flows

I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living. Rosecrans Baldwin

Life Art Food People Drinking Living Way Seemed Something More Paris Never Had Idea Liked Parts Because Becoming Prize Literature Hedonistic Moving Really Many Enjoyed

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

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

Family Our Name Used Last

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores Exactly Highway American Grand Dot Manner

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

Picture Books Beach Couple Without Going Anywhere Companions Vacation

When I was a kid, we didn't eat in restaurants much, but a good report card meant my sister or I could choose anyplace in town for a dinner out, and I always picked Benny's, a dive bar near the train station, because they had the best nachos around. Rosecrans Baldwin

Best Good Dinner Sister Benny Kid Station Out Restaurants Eat Dive Could Had Picked Town Because Around Always Train Report Bar Much Meant Choose Near Card

Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl - a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig's tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20. Rosecrans Baldwin

You Water Neighborhoods Out Spiral Paris Tail River Like Bowl Pig Reverse Flattened Toilet Organized Twist

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. Rosecrans Baldwin

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. Rosecrans Baldwin

My confession: I listen to great music very badly. Rosecrans Baldwin

Music Great Confession Great Music Badly Very Listen

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

Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud. Rosecrans Baldwin

Cloud France Lead Retire Heads Palace

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

You Memories Collection Tells Got How Human Who

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