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.

February 3rd 2010

Maybe I’m just getting older, but this sort of thing is in the sweet spot of my aesthetic right now.

Also, when I was little and would gaze into my mother’s Nanci Griffith album covers, I’d think, “shoot me if I ever look like this.” Goodness knows why, save that I usually felt that way about any photograph of anyone over 30. Now I want her brooch so much that I am considering spending my life savings to pay some 16-year-old to invent an iPhone app that enables one to reach into YouTube videos.

ELDERBLOGGIN’. Here it comes.

Posted at 8:31pm.

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