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Eliza Brooke

@elizapbrooke.bsky.social
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Freelance culture writer. Improve your life and subscribe to The Scumbler. The fun stuff: elizabrooke.substack.com More fun stuff: www.elizapbrooke.com

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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Since I can no longer spend summer afternoons in my parents' ice cold basement, here's how I'm dealing with the heat. elizabrooke.substack.com/p/summer-hea...
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10 recs for the stupid heat
How to cope.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
As the kids say, this is your sign to remind your best friend how much you love them. elizabrooke.substack.com/p/am-i-okay-...
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The real BFFs behind a perfect movie friendship
How Lauren Pomerantz wrote Am I OK?
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
It's called "listening to your therapist for once." elizabrooke.substack.com/p/how-to-qui...
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To my horror, I quit caffeine
Even green tea. Even matcha!!!!
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Everything Nora Ephron hated about DC <3
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Reading Nora Ephron in D.C.
Not such a comforting experience, let me tell you.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Celine Song's favorite video games in today's newsletter... elizabrooke.substack.com/p/i-bought-t...
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I bought the Materialists dress
Oops.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Made it Substack official.
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The Scumbler goes big
It's time.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
“I only like feedback from people who have skin in the game." My SSENSE profile of the brilliant Celine Song is now live! www.ssense.com/en-us/editor...
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Celine Song’s Visions of Love
With her new A24 film “Materialists,” the celebrated director of “Past Lives” is drawing on her stint as a professional matchmaker to explore the twin topics of love and money.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Alex and I are all up in each other's business as freelancers, so I love interviewing married couples that work together. This week: the owners of La Tejana in DC! elizabrooke.substack.com/p/la-tejanas...
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La Tejana's love story
"The Most Interesting Person in D.C." returns.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Your summer reading list is here. elizabrooke.substack.com/p/sweaty-nov...
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Sweaty novels
Lily Meyer's summer book recs.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Talked prepping for SURVIVOR with contestant Bianca Roses, who I have known since I was a baby reporter and she was a baby publicist! elizabrooke.substack.com/p/how-bianca...
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How Bianca Roses prepped for 'Survivor'
Plus: her special iced coffee recipe.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This one goes out to everyone who has made some weird choices on The RealReal elizabrooke.substack.com/p/my-realrea...
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My RealReal misfires
Thank god this isn't a shopping newsletter.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
For the detail-oriented: How a Michelin-starred restaurant does its playlist, scented towels, bathroom soundtrack, etc... elizabrooke.substack.com/p/atmospheri...
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Atmospheric magic
Lessons in whipping up a beautiful experience.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
A great perfumer said that you could explode your mind by putting salt on strawberry yogurt, so I put salt on my strawberry yogurt. The results... elizabrooke.substack.com/p/salted-str...
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Salted strawberry yogurt
An experiment.
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jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
wrote about how hayao miyazaki would hate you fucking losers slate.com/life/2025/03...
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Hayao Miyazaki Would Hate You Losers
The famed animator is the last person who would approve of your little Ghibli-fied waste of pixels.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Readers are obsessed with her laminated jewelry! And so am I.
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It's art for free
Claude Lubroth Reilly is the Most Interesting Person in D.C.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Now that I am out of my 16-day Covid quarantine, wherein I was glued to Instagram for lack of human contact, I can exclusively reveal that Reels is the dumbest place on earth
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The brattiest people on earth are the people sending questions to the @nytimes.com's various advice columns. I just have to click to know what delusions they're getting themselves into today!!
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Twitter is 100% sexy bots now, isn't it
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I've been SUCH a grouch whilst holed up with Covid this week. However, there are a few things that made me smile. elizabrooke.substack.com/p/covid-diary
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
In which @ezwrites.bsky.social and I discuss the most interesting fashion narratives from awards season. (Nobody is doing it better than Colman and Timmy!) elizabrooke.substack.com/p/awards-fas...
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Awards fashion with Esther and Eliza
More glamour! More weirdness!
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
If you've ever worried about "figuring it all out," this one is for you.
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Life after fashion
A conversation with Mona Kowalska.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Whomsoever of you becomes my 500th NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBER will receive a free subscription FOR LIFE whenever I inevitably go paid! (499 isn't a lot compared to many newsletters, but it is a lot for me, and I am very grateful that so many people want to read my Scumblings!) elizabrooke.substack.com
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Drew some strangers with dogs for the newsletter. That's it! elizabrooke.substack.com/p/sketching-...
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Presenting my new professional website... www.elizapbrooke.com
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ELIZA BROOKE
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Vol. II of THE MOST INTERESTING PERSON IN D.C. has dropped. elizabrooke.substack.com/p/challenge-...
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Challenge your palate
The Most Interesting Person in D.C., Volume II.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
This week in the newsletter: suspected endometriosis + my favorite PERIOD FILMS, by which I mean movies to watch when your menstrual cramps make you want to crawl into a crack in the wall! elizabrooke.substack.com/p/period-films
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Period films
Good movies for bad times.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Toons are BACK in the newsletter. This time about my perfect dream outfits.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Tis time to rank my favorite movies of the year* *First time watches, not all released in 2024 (see #5: The Intern)
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Girls and their vampires
Thoughts on 'Nosferatu' (2024).
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Today's newsletter: Eliza Wrapped, feat. the art that made me say oooooh and ahhhhh in 2024
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The Year in Eliza (2024)
Here we go again.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Canva is making me too powerful
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
"Everybody kept telling me how conservative people were here. And that is just a fallacy." Today in the newsletter, we're talking about FASHION with Georgetown's coolest retailer, Nancy Pearlstein. Turns out the Washingtonian woman has good taste! She is adventurous! She loves Yohji Yamamoto???
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Wholesome how I log onto this platform cause I really do want to understand what it's all about
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Bought a big tortoiseshell hairpin. Right now the bun is embarrassing. Keeps falling out. But once I figure out how to use this thing, I'll be the chicest person alive.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
A celebration of physical media (I had stories in the Dec/Jan issues of Harper's Bazaar and Elle!)
The print version of "Radical Realism," an interview with costume designer Katina DanabassisThe print version of "Retail Therapy," a story about custom-made clothes shoppingThe covers of Elle and Harper's Bazaar
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Tis the season to read my profile of Robert Eggers. Vampirism! www.ssense.com/en-us/editor...
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The Dark Lord of Fine Details
How celebrated director Robert Eggers brought the horrifying world of “Nosferatu” to life.
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Eliza Brooke @elizapbrooke.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I wonder if it'll be a problem that I told this platform I was born today
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