Eclectic Letters #19 — Chris Allnutt
Myeongho Seo's penguin snaps, a French radio station, Ross Macdonald, Rimworld, conventionally unattractive postcards, and millennial lit.
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Eclectic Letters #18 — Thomas Peermohamed Lambert
Borges on the English language, Palacio Barolo, the paintings of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, Betty Carter and John Hicks live in Norway, Fesenjoon, and Philip Roth's The Counterlife.
Eclectic Letters #17 — Louis Elton
A 90s thriller scripted by Harold Pinter, Nick Cave's gruesome ballads, poodle hair arrangements, Swiss chocolates, Joshua Cohen's meta masterpiece, a noughties comedy, British craft, and Rinquinquin.
Eclectic Letters #16 — Sam Jennings
Louis Armstrong singing “Dinah”, Wallace Stevens's Harmonium, a psychedelic 60s production of Alice in Wonderland, Smerz's woozy pop hit, Black Country New Road's new album, and Star Trek Acid Party.
Eclectic Letters #15 — Josiah Gogarty
Middle-class Swedish hip-hop, Glenn O'Brien on iconoclasm, Jünger's diaries, Casa Malaparte, port, and the "Dancing Queen" vapourwave remix
Eclectic Letters #14 — Phoebe Arslanagić-Little
Uccello’s St George and the Dragon paintings, a Lutyens documentary, Algernon Blackwood's horror stories, Dorich House, and a great children's book
Eclectic Letters #13 — Ben Sixsmith
An existential Cristian Anghelescu novel, David Beckers's short stories, an 80s true crime documentary, an experimental rock band from NYC, and a silent comedy troupe.
Eclectic Letters #12 — James Marriott
A romantic restaurant under the National Portrait Gallery, a classic LRB essay, a genuinely hearty soup, the poetry of D. H. Lawrence, and The Ascension of Christ by Rembrandt.
Eclectic Letters #11 — Finn McRedmond
Exquisite equine writing, an avant-garde Simpsons episode, a Menander play, a pop song in 5/4, a literary wine book, Michael Longley's poetry, and tarragon.
Eclectic Letters #10 — Samuel Rubinstein
Philip Glass's "music with repetitive structures", E. P. Thompson's sci-fi novel, elephants, whales, F. W. Maitland, Norman Cantor’s Inventing the Middle Ages, and scathing academic reviews.