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.

“Frankly, I adore Eloise.” — Noel Coward

You and me both. I unearthed my old treasury of eloise books—tattered from the 50s, a gift from my grandfather—last night and flipped the pages for almost an hour, trying to remember why i moved to new york (i was having one of those city-crises-of-faith-moments). i think my leap here may have had something to do with the idea of running down the hallways of the plaza one second, taking a cab to a consulate the next, and buying a great fluff of cotton candy immediately thereafter. turns out, i have based major life decisions on the actions of a six year old.

Posted at 10:44am.

“Frankly, I adore Eloise.” — Noel CowardYou and me both. I unearthed my old treasury of eloise books—tattered from the 50s, a gift from my grandfather—last night and flipped the pages for almost an hour, trying to remember why i moved to new york (i was having one of those city-crises-of-faith-moments). i think my leap here may have had something to do with the idea of running down the hallways of the plaza one second, taking a cab to a consulate the next, and buying a great fluff of cotton candy immediately thereafter. turns out, i have based major life decisions on the actions of a six year old.

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