Rachel Kaufman, freelance reporter

I'm an interrogator of gargoyle lovers, frog fondlers, and the eternal optimists saving the news industry. These are some of the stories I've written.

Posts Tagged ‘authors’

Tooting my own horn

By • Jun 19th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

Some articles I’ve worked on lately that are now up at GoErie.com: Rider takes challenges of competing internationally in stride The first obstacle was the cost: $25,000.Then there was the horse’s injury. Obstacles, though, are nothing to Becca Hart, a 22-year-old Erie native who is one of four Americans selected to compete at the Fédération [...]



Worth Reading: Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Meta

By • Jun 13th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Meta from last January’s issue of Technology Review (how do I FIND these things?) profiles Charles Simonyi, who designed Microsoft Office (as well as worked on the world’s first word processor, back at Xerox PARC). He’s perhaps the most successful programmer in the world. (The article makes the [...]



Worth Reading: Why We Compete

By • Jun 3rd, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

Kevin Streelman arrived, as always, by car. He placed his Callaway golf clubs in the trunk of his Toyota Camry parked outside his condo in Scottsdale, Ariz., wasted two hours in Phoenix rush hour and then drove 300 miles northwest to Las Vegas. He stopped only once, for gas. Streelman already had logged almost 6,000 [...]



Thomas Lux’s Virgule

By • Apr 25th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

In a complete departure from my last post, and in honor of the Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival this weekend, a poem. It’s technically about punctuation rather than words, but I love it nonetheless. Virgule Thomas Lux What I love about this little leaning mark is how it divides without divisiveness. The left or bottom [...]



Reviewed: The Secret Life of Bees

By • Apr 12th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around the room, making that propeller sound, a high-pitched zzzzz that hummed along my skin. I watched their wings shining like bits of chrome in the dark and felt the longing [...]



On the Commodification of the Ecstasy of the By-Products of Action

By • Mar 13th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

(No, this is not another Splasher post.)  If you haven’t read Jonathan Lethem’s amazing plagiarism, “The Ecstasy of Influence,” over at Harper’s, go do so. The idea that everything is a retelling is, in itself, not a new idea, but I don’t often think of works of art and literature as being better when they [...]