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.

[An amalgamation of its own history, the youth of the West are left with consuming cool rather that creating it. The cultural zeitgeists of the past have always been sparked by furious indignation and are reactionary movements. But the hipster’s self-involved and isolated maintenance does nothing to feed cultural evolution. Western civilization’s well has run dry. The only way to avoid hitting the colossus of societal failure that looms over the horizon is for the kids to abandon this vain existence and start over.]

So the “hipsters are the downfall of ALL OF WESTERN CIV” story has rapidly been making it’s way around the nets. This part: “In the end, hipsters are sold what they think they invent and are spoon-fed their pre-packaged cultural livelihood,” rings pretty true to me right now.

Posted at 11:37am.

  1. floodwaters reblogged this from rach
  2. langer reblogged this from rach and added:
    a great piece from a couple years back by Abe Burmeister in Abstract Dynamics:
  3. thakker reblogged this from rach and added:
    From Adbusters’ hipsters are...kids at shows and parties are snapping pictures
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  5. thingsthatinspireandamuse reblogged this from thinkkatethink and added:
    Very interesting discussion guys, I think I’m going to have to read the whole article before I can weigh in with my own...
  6. thinkkatethink reblogged this from buongiorno and added:
    you took the words right out of my mouth!! I really didn’t feel like typing that much… but I definitely stand behind...
  7. buongiorno reblogged this from thinkkatethink and added:
    Haven’t read the whole thing yet, but isn’t “created cool” always replicated and sold anyhow? The market preys on it,...
  8. thinkkatethink reblogged this from erickd and added:
    pessimism is what it’s all about right now. nobody wants to believe that there is hope for the future, so they put blame...
  9. timlikeswaffless reblogged this from rach and added:
    an interesting read… it kind...want to get rid of my Tumblr.
  10. erickd reblogged this from rach and added:
    Wow, really interesting read. My favorite sentence...be “The dance floor at a hipster...
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