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Jennifer Howard

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Jennifer Howard lives in Washington, D.C., the city where she was born and raised. She’s the author of CLUTTER: AN UNTIDY HISTORY (September 2020). A former contributing editor at the Washington Post and a former senior reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jen is a frequent contributor to the TLS. Her work has also appeared in Humanities magazine, Slate, EdSurge, and many other publications. Her fiction has been published in VQR, the Collagist, the anthology DC Noir (edited by George Pelecanos), and elsewhere. She lives in a book-filled house—so many books, so little time!—on Capitol Hill with her family.

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Recent Writing

  • “The Publishing Ecosystem in the Digital Era: On John B. Thompson’s ‘BOOK WARS'”
  • “A paler shade of white”: HAVING AND BEING HAD by Eula Biss (review)
  • “Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?”

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  • Event alert: Literary Hill Bookfest, 5/1/22

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