Jennifer Howard is a writer and editor 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, VQR, D.C. Noir, and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her family.
NEW: An orphan girl, a garden of second chances, and a snake in paradise: I wrote about THE PEACH THIEF, a lovely historical middle-grade novel by Linda Joan Smith set in 1850 Lancashire, for NYTBR.
“A keen assessment of one of society’s secret shames and its little-understood consequences.” —Kirkus Reviews
“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
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