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.

September 15th 2008

Reblogged from supernice|

supernice:

From The Sign On Rosie’s Door: If you want to know a secret knock three times.

I was at the Maurice Sendak 80th celebration tonight at the 92ndSt Y  too (amazing), and just…wow, such a life well lived, so far. He gave only a few comments at the end, but said something very true, which is that we need imagination now more than ever. This really is a time to get creative. I had no idea about the book above until tonight (Meryl Streep read from —mit voices!), but I bought a copy afterwards—perhaps to someday read to my hypothetical future daughter along with Eloise in Paris and Amelia Bedelia and Matilda. Not that I think about those things with any regularity.

Also, for the record, the WTWTA film Spike J. is making looks crazily gorgeous from the clips he showed tonight. Crystal clear, but with jungles and toy boats and rosy cheeks in wolf’s clothing.

Posted at 11:24pm.

supernice: From The Sign On Rosie’s Door: If you want to know a secret knock three times. I was at the Maurice Sendak 80th celebration tonight at the 92ndSt Y  too (amazing), and just…wow, such a life well lived, so far. He gave only a few comments at the end, but said something very true, which is that we need imagination now more than ever. This really is a time to get creative. I had no idea about the book above until tonight (Meryl Streep read from —mit voices!), but I bought a copy afterwards—perhaps to someday read to my hypothetical future daughter along with Eloise in Paris and Amelia Bedelia and Matilda. Not that I think about those things with any regularity. Also, for the record, the WTWTA film Spike J. is making looks crazily gorgeous from the clips he showed tonight. Crystal clear, but with jungles and toy boats and rosy cheeks in wolf’s clothing.

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