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.

i asked a random smattering of my friends about their new year’s resolutions. their answers are below. feel free to add your own.

-stop wasting time on stupid dudes-enter the golden gloves boxing tournament-stop smoking (kind of)-write more-same every year: more gym. boring, i know-as it is every year, to floss!…and to eat breakfast-i have many big concept things, i just haven’t pinned them down-i think i have to give up shopping for like 6 months or something. major credit card debt-be able to do a full split-i’d like to become more of an intellectual-finally break up with [redacted]. been meaning to do that one forevs-take part in the political process-i want to go more new places, see more art/theater, read more (if possible) and think bigger. maybe go to first fridays at the guggenheim?-get a book deal-read less gossip blogs, more classic nineteenth century novels- i traditionally don’t really “do resolutions”-lose 20 lbs-watch less porn. at least at work-take one great, life-changing trip-sleep with at least one person (that I haven’t met yet)-strive for happiness.

Posted at 2:12pm.

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