Rosecrans Baldwin

TMN co-founder Rosecrans Baldwin is the bestselling author of “Everything Now.” Other books include “The Last Kid Left” and “Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down.” He lives in Los Angeles.

https://rosecransbaldwin.com/

14 May 2003

Eating With Harley Spiller

SARS be damned: a search for the perfect dumpling in New York’s Chinatown, guided through eight restaurants in two hours by the man known as Inspector Collector.

20 Apr 2003

My family has an Easter tradition of eating brunch at the Peninsula hotel, then going outside to Fifth Avenue to march in the parade of sartorial queens, do-dandies, and bow-tie’d church-goers who stroll up and down the street and preen. The highlight was chasing after Bill

14 Apr 2003

Maybe, Just with Sugar

In deference to my esteemed colleague, I agree: it is spring in Brooklyn, it is beautiful outside, I was able to wear a light jacket this morning when I walked my girlfriend to the subway... but when making a pitcher of iced tea I must draw a line in greater

01 Apr 2003

Reasons To Be Cheerful

Reading Nick Hornby’s new collection, Songbook, a birthday present from a friend, and I’m very happy. Hornby’s books do that to me. I should be doing work, but I’ve been on the couch for three hours and I’m almost finished, sadly, two cups of coffee

23 Mar 2003

Signs of Protest

A list of signs seen at the Saturday, 23 March 2003 anti-war march in New York City. - Fuck Bush And Fuck All You Fucking Republicans - I Weep For My Country - Look Before You Kill - Work Not War - Media Whores + Pentagon Knuckle Draggers - But George, What If A Foetus Is

06 Mar 2003

Brooklyn Views

So you’re all nervy on the way back from the gym. Anxious, defensive, self-loathing like a sweat. You think, you call this a life? You’re almost whacked by a limo while crossing under the BQE. Most days writing is hard and that’s all. It’s work,

25 Feb 2003

Three Observations on the Way to Lunch

1. Leaving the L train, up through the station, I nailed the smell. Winter smells like winter. Enough. It’s the same everywhere I’ve lived, and after four years of college in central Maine, I had it figured out: like leaves or branches burning but suppressed by cold, so

21 Feb 2003

Sure Shot

My in-laws’ relationship with basketball has been touched on before, but when the future father-in-law sinks 8 free throws in 30 seconds during a halftime contest at a recent U.N.C game, beating out the competition for the $100 prize, you can be damn sure I’

13 Feb 2003

A Few Notes

Not much news to report this week, but a few enhancements around the site: 1) If you read Web sites with an RSS News reader, (e.g., NetNewsWire, Amphetadesk), then you may like to try our new RSS 2.0 feeds, now featuring both the Features (complete stories) and Headlines

05 Feb 2003

Gabe Kean

Designer and “Born Magazine” director Gabe Kean discusses abused fonts, Mark Twain, and exactly why people in the Northwest drive slow in the left lane.