Jennifer Howard is a writer, editor, 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 Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Review of Books, VQR, and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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
“CLUTTER is a call to rein it all in.” —Washington City Paper
“Jennifer Howard has written a brilliant and beautiful meditation on the nature of our attachment to things.” —Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author and host of the “Revisionist History” podcast
“A fascinating and insightful account of what becomes of the stuff that we accumulate in our homes and lives.” —Adam Minter, author of Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
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