Authors in Conversation "Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for 'Paris,'" Rosecrans Baldwin, author of Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down, wrote in an email just before Bastille Day. "As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is." He was writing to Toby Barlow, author of Sharp Teeth and, most recently, Babayaga -- a novel of love, spies, and witches in 1950s Paris. In their exchange, Barlow and Baldwin discussed "Fake France," pommes frites, and the enchantments of the City of Light. Toby Barlow wrote: