"For college, I went to Chicago, and Russell attended Yale on a wrestling scholarship. But I eventually got to Harvard as a young Ph.D. doing research, and Russell dated a girl who’d once given Don Mattingly a blow job in the Yankees’ parking lot. We decided that we’d done okay."

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This blog is quickly turning into one big sponsored post for You Lost Me There, but, I mean, this passage. And then there’s this:

Baldwin, 33, spoke with BlackBook recently (just before a backyard southern barbeque at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, that is) about his inspiration for You Lost Me There, the self-described “hack work” he did to pay the bills while writing it, and why he felt compelled to add Bruce Willis, of all people, into his marital mosaic.

I’m holding off on reading the interview past the spoilers-free introduction—and I’m only 50 pages into the actual novel—so I have a feeling this gushy post won’t be a parking-lot one-off or anything like that. Fair warning, I guess? You should probably just steal the book to keep up. 

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