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Rachel Cohn

everyone else has a myspace so i got one too

About Me

www.rachelcohn.com
I'm the author of the YA novels Gingerbread , Shrimp , Cupcake , Pop Princess ,
Two Steps Forward and The Steps , and, along with David Levithan ,
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (www.nickandnorah.com) , and Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List .
New book now available: You Know Where to Find Me .
You can write to me here through MySpace, or at readermail[at]rachelcohn[dot]com.
If you want to find and friend me on Facebook , too, that'd be cool!

My Interests

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    MTV Music Videos MTV Shows Entertainment News

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

My iPod is always going. I'm partial to soul/funk and honky-tonk/alt-country, and many very cheesy pop tunes. I love so much it's hard to narrow down, but here are my perennial faves: Aaliyah, Abba, Johnny Adams, Fiona Apple, Eva Cassidy, Belle & Sebastian, Bettye Swann, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Dennis Brown, Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash, Cat Power, Kasey Chambers, Kelly Clarkson, The Clash, Nikka Costa, Elvis Costello, Joe Ely, Cesaria Evora, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Patty Griffin, Green Day, Donny Hathaway, Merle Haggard, Chris Isaak, Etta James, Norah Jones, Chaka Khan, Le Tigre, Kirsty MacColl, Bob Marley, Curtis Mayfield, Alanis Morissette, Sinead O'Connor, The O'Jays, Shuggie Otis, Esther Phillips, Prince, Toshi Reagon, Charlie Rich, Sade, Shakira, Nina Simone, Elliott Smith, Dusty Springfield, Bruce Springsteen, Allen Toussaint, Luther Vandross, Dinah Washington, Paul Weller, Lucinda Williams, Stevie Wonder.
Radio (what did I do before the webstream?): KALX, KUSF, KPOO, KVRX, KEXP, KXLU, WFMU, WWOZ, WERS, WPFW, WKCR, BBC Radio 1, Triple J Australia.

Movies:

Rear Window, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Rushmore, Coal Miner's Daughter, Sullivan's Travels, Leave Her to Heaven, Out of Sight, Being There, Team America, Heathers, Raising Victor Vargas, Ghost World, 25th Hour, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Boogie Nights, Spice World, Say Anything, Men Don't Leave, The Sound of Music, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Tapeheads, Reds, Clueless, Sixteen Candles, Mrs. Soffel, My Brilliant Career, High Tide, School of Rock, Casablanca, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, The Sound of Music, Bell Book and Candle, Dick, Party Girl, Dazed and Confused, Viva Las Vegas, Lost in Translation, Mad Hot Ballroom, Royal Tenenbaums

Television:

The Wire, Freaks and Geeks, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, My So-Called Life, Buffy/Angel, Wonderfalls, Daria, Six Feet Under, Action, Karen Sisco, Entourage, The Office (UK)

Books:

Yes, I love books. I especially love YA books. It's hard to single out favorites when there are so many great YA authors whose books I enjoy, but I will say I'm particularly attached to any books by Patricia McCormick, David Levithan, Markus Zusak, and Jaclyn Moriarty. There are so many more YA authors whose books I adore...and many of them are on MySpace, so I hope you'll check 'em out in my Friends profiles.
Amongst "adult" (zzzz) authors, I pretty much love anything by Dawn Powell, Graham Greene, Ellen Gilchrist, Evelyn Waugh.
Random list of some favorite books:
A Confederacy of Dunces; An Actual Life; Angela's Ashes; Cash: The Autobiography by Johnny Cash; Franny and Zooey; Cut; Sold; Dangerous Angels; Feed; Gone with the Wind; High Fidelity; I Capture the Castle; Lady: My Life As a Bitch; Me Talk Pretty One Day; Mr. Vertigo; My Brilliant Career; Sleeping Arrangements; Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley; The Grass Harp; The Member of the Wedding; The Perks of Being a Wallflower; The Realm of Possibility; To Kill a Mockingbird; Two Girls, Fat and Thin; White Teeth

Heroes:

teen readers

My Blog

NYC Appearances w/ Patricia McCormick

Greetings,I will be doing two NYC appearances this month with my great friend (and writing buddy -- we write together at the same place in Manhattan) Patricia McCormick, author of some of my favorite...
Posted by Rachel Cohn on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:12:00 PST

Audrey, Wait! and other news

Greetings,I want to recommend a terrific and hilarious new book to you.  Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway is the story of a 16-year-old Southern California girl named Audrey, who in a fickle mo...
Posted by Rachel Cohn on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:54:00 PST

You Know Where to Find Me

Greetings and salutations,My new book, You Know Where to Find Me, is now available online and starting to appear in bookstores.It's a different kind of novel from me.  It's not so funny HAH HAH, ...
Posted by Rachel Cohn on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:24:00 PST

movie and other Qs: Ad.

You asked, I answered.  Here's the latest Q&A installment.  Thanks to everyone who sent in Qs! Wishing you all a happy and healthy New Year, filled with great books, great music and grea...
Posted by Rachel Cohn on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:18:00 PST

some early Nick & Norah video...

Article about the filming here.Video here!: MTVMusic VideosMTV ShowsEntertainment NewsEek!!!!!!!!!!...
Posted by Rachel Cohn on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:36:00 PST

Yugos and Cupcakes

Hello and Happy Holidays!This past fall I moved back to Manhattan after a year in Los Angeles, and in the laidback yoga/hiking/cappucinos lifestyle I enjoyed in LA, I forgot how much NYC is all about ...
Posted by Rachel Cohn on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:23:00 PST

Nick & Norah: THE MOVIE!!!!!!!!!

So the amazing news can now be shared:  Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist is really and truly going to be a movie!  Filming starts next month in Manhattan (yay!), and Michael Cera wi...
Posted by Rachel Cohn on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:55:00 PST

Naomi & Ely and Rachel & David

Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List is officially released today!  And Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist is officially out in paperback today!  To commemorate the occasion, David and I intervi...
Posted by Rachel Cohn on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:10:00 PST

Procrastination

I don't know how I've ever gotten any books written, because I will seriously do anything just to not write.  It's called the Great Act of Procrastination, and at this point, I'd like to think I ...
Posted by Rachel Cohn on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:21:00 PST

new books, writing advice and more of your Qs

Alright, I admit that I not much of a blogger.  I really, really don't have that much to say.  So I am very grateful to all of you who answered my call for questions so that I'd have an actu...
Posted by Rachel Cohn on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:45:00 PST