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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Long Winters - Clouds

“Wilde said something like ‘Great artists are boring conversationalists, and interesting people are never great artists.’ The first time I read it I was scared, because I realized I’d rather be interesting than brilliant. And it’s a hard moment when you choose being fun over being brilliant, because seldom do the twain meet again” (John Roderick, interviewed in The Believer)

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