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.

But for now all I can think is, nice retouching. Looks a little like a Vermeer.

Is this the only haps in the world today? Seems like it, though I’m more interested in the woman who fell four stories trying to light a cig. At least that tale provides some real life helpful hints, like go downstairs and/or find a balcony.

(p.s. I posted this b/c I care about so very many things, and want to share them and get people excited about them, and then I got about 20 e-mail/IMs about this today and was a little discouraged. Not saying that it doesn’t bring up a great debate about the iconography of children and how much the aesthetics of a photographer override the agency of the subject, but the debate in the public seems to be, is she a teenage harlot or is she not…and, well, cue song below.)

Posted at 5:52pm.

  1. supernice reblogged this from rach and added:
    love your tumblr b/cause you seem...more than not being seen
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