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.

  • Mom: Do you know about these "click" books?
  • Me: clique?
  • Me: the ya novels?
  • Mom: Yeah, for adolescent girls. They seem vile
  • Me: Yes, insipid
  • Mom: They are fueling a superficial culture and the author seems like a vacuous skeletal bitch.
  • Me: where did you see her
  • Mom: I saw her on TV and she was saying that the girls understood that she was being sarcastic and that they saw through the values in the book. I don't think so.
  • Mom: She is just fueling tween Paris Hiltons.
  • Me: i think girls dont get irony at that age
  • Me: they only get cool and uncool
  • Mom: I agree. But she is totally laughing all the way to the bank in her rolls royce etc.
  • Mom: I think that junior high is hard enough.
  • Mom: You know that [redacted popular girl I went to HS with]'s dad is running for [redacted office]in the [redacted] district. He has always been republican and he is pretty much a carpet bagger. I hope that he gets his ass kicked, I think of the girls in the novels as being like [redacted popular girl.]
  • Me: ah, we are RELATED
  • Mom: But I think that parents of kids are as bad as the kids. I served dinner at the temple with a woman who had referred to your brother's class in elementary school as the total geeks and nerds.
  • Me: i hope you slapped her
  • Mom: No, I should have said something like ..you're right..my kids are hopeless outcasts!

Posted at 4:49pm.

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