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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The National - Karen. 

Tonight I went to see one of my very favorite bands, The National, at Brooklyn Academy of Music in a big, ornate concert hall. It was almost flawless.  Then a big bunch of us escaped to a local dive bar with a fireplace and I made it home somehow in the slush.

On the traipse home late, slightly tipsy, I noticed that on my street there is a sculpture garden that I rarely look at, and lately they have placed this Venus statue by the gates, looking out. Something about that statue and the events of tonight made me know that all is (or will be) right in my world. 

Posted at 1:27am.

  1. mavryx reblogged this from rach and added:
    saw this statue walking...other night, and stopped and wished
  2. fek reblogged this from rach and added:
    Ugh. Still can’t get over the fact that I’m not going to...tonight (or last night),...
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