Jennifer Howard is a writer, journalist, and editor based in Washington, D.C. She is at work on a history of clutter, forthcoming in September 2020 from Belt Publishing. Her articles, essays, and short stories have been published in The Washington Post, The Times Literary Supplement (TLS), The Chronicle of Higher Education, EdSurge, Slate, McSweeney’s, Humanities, Art & Object, The Boston Review, Bookforum, VQR, The Collagist, and many other places. Learn more.
What I’m reading, 7/19/19 edition: Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers, in a falling-apart 1970s paperback edition I discovered during an overdue cleanup of our bookshelves. Published in 1930, the novel follows Lord Peter Wimsey’s attempts to clear the novelist Harriet Vane–whom he’s desperately smitten with–of poisoning her former beau with arsenic. It’s witty, of course, and debonair and spiked with unexpectedly powerful moments of emotion.
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