Jennifer Howard laughing

Jennifer Howard

Writer, editor, journalist.

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Books
  • Writing
    • Journalism
    • Fiction
  • Editing
  • Contact

Archives for Future Imperfect

Back to the Future

February 4, 2008

John Crowley (Little, Big) has noticed that, in SF movies, the future’s been looking more and more like the past: “Brazil,” set ‘somewhere in the 20th Century’, isn’t really the future; like some of the Superman and Batman movies it’s set in a some alternative sorta-retro past or alternative present or generalized urban somewhen….I think… Continue reading »

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

Get my newsletter

Get updates on writing projects. But that's not all! I will also be sharing a few bright! shiny! things! I pick up here and there as they catch my fancy.

Subscribe

About Jen

Jen Howard sitting in front of a brick wall. She is smiling.

Writer, journalist, editor, gadabout. Book- and nature lover. Washingtonian. LLC. Read more ยป

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”

Social Media

Tweets by JenHoward
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Content is © Jennifer Howard or respective owners | Site by Rocketkoi