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Jennifer Howard

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Jennifer Howard is a writer and journalist and the author of Clutter: An Untidy History. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the TLS, Slate, the Los Angeles Review of Books, VQR, and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her family.

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For my last newsletter of 2022, I wrote about not making resolutions and why I’ll always be looking for the perfect notebook. Happy New Year!

Praise for CLUTTER

A New York Times Book Review “New and Noteworthy” book

“A keen assessment of one of society’s secret shames and its little-understood consequences.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Howard argues that decluttering is not just a personally liberating ritual, but a moral imperative, a duty we owe both to our children and to the planet.”—The Washington Post

“Jennifer Howard has written a brilliant and beautiful meditation on the nature of our attachment to things.” —Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author and podcaster

“A fascinating and insightful account of what becomes of the stuff that we accumulate.” —Adam Minter, author of Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale

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February 21, 2023

January newsletter: Making space

January 20, 2023

December newsletter: Routines vs. resolutions

December 30, 2022

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Schools of Thought Control

The New York Times

The Publishing Ecosystem in the Digital Era: On John B. Thompson’s BOOK WARS

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A paler shade of white: HAVING AND BEING HAD by Eula Biss

The Times Literary Supplement

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