Donnie Eichar

“One government tactic was to flood record shops with unplayable records, many intended to damage record players. Some of these records included…

— Donnie Eichar

“Wunderkammer or “wonder room”—what the English would call a cabinet of curiosities.”

— Donnie Eichar

“Heiss Island, an island in the northern archipelago of Franz Josef Land, which was over 1,200 miles away from where the hikers…

— Donnie Eichar

“the 1962 Novocherkassk massacre in which Soviet troops with machine guns mowed down a group of factory protesters—”

— Donnie Eichar

“The hikers themselves would not have damaged their own tent in this way, even by accident, so this seems to suggest one…

— Donnie Eichar

“Across both doors was a splash of vandalism in the universal language of Fuck You.”

— Donnie Eichar

“During World War II, rationing in Russia had made vinyl prohibitively expensive, and cheap X-ray film became the bootleg music industry’s substitute.…

— Donnie Eichar

“But then “Siberia,” historically, has been less a geographical designation than a state of mind, a looming threat—the frozen hell on earth…

— Donnie Eichar