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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 husband, their two children, two cats, and two dogs.

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Twitter: @JenHoward

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Recent Writing

  • “A paler shade of white”: HAVING AND BEING HAD by Eula Biss (review)
  • “Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?”
  • “The Complicated Role of the Modern Public Library”

Recent Posts

  • Book event: VA Festival of the Book “Shelf Life”
  • Interview: “Rising Up With Sonali”
  • Live at East City Bookshop

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Latest Posts

  • Book event: VA Festival of the Book “Shelf Life”
  • Interview: “Rising Up With Sonali”
  • Live at East City Bookshop
  • The TLS: “Coming Clean” (review)
  • Vox: Quoted in an article on “The New Maximalism”

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