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Conversations with interesting creative people. Essays about movies and clothes and other things that make life good. And: a delicious new interview series called "The Most Interesting Person in D.C."

About Eliza Brooke

Freelance journalist and copywriter. Also? Publisher, head writer, and publicist of The Scumbler.

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