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.

March 27th 2008

Today is already starting out well. I spent the morning with Jay Scheib, an MIT prof. who is currently setting up stage at PS122 for Untitled: Mars, a performance piece about a six-man mission (one-way only) to the red planet, complete with a documentary film made at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah (founded and funded by Dr. Robert Zubrin, which sounds like a name in an Arthur Clarke book, but actually exists). For him, the piece is about putting the science back into arts and sciences. I was charmed.

We mostly talked about Philip K. Dick, the commitment level of nerds, and how in 10 years, it could be feasible to have a movie studio and a greenhouse in martian territory. I think I need to lie down.

Posted at 12:51pm.

Today is already starting out well. I spent the morning with Jay Scheib, an MIT prof. who is currently setting up stage at PS122 for Untitled: Mars, a performance piece about a six-man mission (one-way only) to the red planet, complete with a documentary film made at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah (founded and funded by Dr. Robert Zubrin, which sounds like a name in an Arthur Clarke book, but actually exists). For him, the piece is about putting the science back into arts and sciences. I was charmed. We mostly talked about Philip K. Dick, the commitment level of nerds, and how in 10 years, it could be feasible to have a movie studio and a greenhouse in martian territory. I think I need to lie down.

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