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.

Two septuagenarian women, in ermine, velvet, and Easy Spirits. Yiddishe accents. Eyeliner in all the wrong places.

Woman 1: So we are getting breakfast uptown and Ira asks me what kind of muffin I want to go with my coffee.
Woman 2: He didn’t know?
Woman 1: He didn’t know! I say, Ira, 45 years we’ve been married and you don’t know what kinds of muffins I eat? He’s more fertummelt day by day.
Woman 2: So?
Woman 1: He brought me a corn muffin. A case full of muffins and the one I don’t eat, he brings me. I said, Ira, after 45 years you don’t know me at all. At ALL.
Woman 2: (solemn nod)

Hardened Jewsy biddies are my favorite kind of New York biddy.

Posted at 3:15pm.

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    can hear that same woman on the phone to...complaining that the air conditioner was...
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