Marilyn Monroe and Sheilah Graham at Ciro’s Nightclub
Rachel Profiling
Hello, I'm Rachel.
Writer/editor. New Mexican tumbleweed blown east to skyscraper country.
Right now, I am working on a book about F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sheilah Graham, and Hollywood in the 1930s. It will also contain a lot of drinking, powder blue suits, dances at the Cocoanut Grove, betrayal, gossip columns, crazy ladies, secret Jews, film lot moguls, and Dorothy Parker quips at funerals. If the world is still around then, it should be out from Random House around 2014. So let's hope the Mayans were wrong.
If you want to say hi please do. Or find me in short form, here.
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I started a running blog. The impossible is here.
It’s about having no athletic prowess whatsoever and still trying anyway. I never got picked for the team growing up, but I get picked every time when I run. Because I’m the WHOLE TEAM. Works like magic.
Please read it and feel physically superior!
Stanley Kubrick’s pictures of NYC life in the 1940s are the greatest.
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No, thank YOU.
So I’m recapping Downton Abbey for TIME Magazine this season. It brings me almost as much happiness as watching Maggie Smith do battle with overgrown bouquets. Enjoy!
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Ryan Gosling Works in Publishing may be my favorite version of the meme yet.
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A gentleman named Farhad Manjoo just posted a proudly contrarian article on Slate explaining why independent bookstores are not only irrelevent but maybe even harmful. I work at an independent bookstore, so that’s an argument I’d be very very curious to see made well. Honestly, I know the failings of small booksellers as well as anyone, and it’d be good to see them articulated. But that’s not what this essay was. Let’s look at it. All of it. In detail.
I’ll be interjecting my thoughts into the text of the essay itself. I know that’s a pretty ungenerous way to go about it, but as you’ll see, Mr. Manjoo is kind of an asshat, so I’m not feeling generous.
This is just the best thing.
- A: happy diddy's birthday!
- R: i am eating a whole cake for it!
- A: it's not rosie o'donnell's birthday
- A: you should order a cake from payard. eat a sliver
- A: and then fret that you got the wrong one and that nobody will come to your party
- A: and then throw it away
- R: see I like to celebrate Joan by eating all the things she doesn't eat
- R: its the kids in africa theory
- R: joan is starving somewhere so i better eat an entire pizza
Jessica Coen: Names, Words, and Phrases Appearing in a Single NYT Trend Piece
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An abridged list, in no particular order.
- Edmund Wilson
- poststructuralism
- the Situationists
- “extrainstitutional intellectualism”
- bourbon
- “proletarian meta-narrative”
- the Lost Generation
- Cornell
- Sacre Coeur
- Jonathan Lethem
- The Paris Review
- paradigm
- Jacques Derrida
- French…
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