Vanity Fair Visits Rachel Rabbit White

At Vanity Fair, Laura Regensdorf writes about Rachel Rabbit White, author of  Porn Carnival (Wonder, 2019) and the forthcoming Porn Carnival: Paradise Edition (Wonder, 2020), who is newly engaged to Nico Walker and shares excerpts from her wellness diary with VF's readers. "The couple connected this time last year,"  Regensdorf notes, "shortly after the launch of Rabbit White’s poetry debut, Porn Carnival." Picking up from there: 

(“If there’s anything more hedonistic / than a poem / I’ve yet to feel it,” she writes in “Interlude,” though her launch party gave poetry a run for its money: a bacchanalian mashup of literary types and sex workers, with Rabbit White presiding over all in her Lucite platform heels.) After Walker—to be played by Tom Holland in next year's adaptation of Cherry—reached out with words of praise, he and the poet struck up a writerly back-and-forth. Before long, they were aflame.

If the past months were tumultuous (at one point Walker slipped from a halfway house into court-ordered rehab), the emotional hurricane bore fruit. The new Porn Carnival: Paradise Edition—a riff on Lana Del Rey—comes with a series of fresh poems; there's also a fragrance created with perfumer Marissa Zappas. “Jasmine, to me, is incredibly sexy, though I feel like it’s hard to do a white floral because it gets so heavy,” Rabbit White explained. This one instead is “very fresh, ozonic,” she said—something “that you'd want to wear on those Sunday days where you're just laying in the sheets all day with your lover, and the sun's coming in through the window.”

Read more at Vanity Fair.