Jennifer Howard is a writer and editor and the author of Clutter: An Untidy History (now out in paperback). Her work has appeared in the TLS, the LARB, the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, VQR, and elsewhere.
CLUTTER: AN UNTIDY HISTORY is now available in paperback. Find a copy at your local indie bookshop or public library.
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. Reading Clutter made me long for a life without clutter.” —Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author and host of the “Revisionist History” podcast
“In Clutter, Jennifer Howard offers 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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