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Jennifer Howard

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Archives for Resistance

New writing alert: me in the NYTBR

September 2, 2022

The New York Times Book Review asked me to review two new middle-grade novels that confront, in very different ways, the growing threat to kids’ freedom to read. This threat has been worrying me a lot lately, so I was especially glad to get to write about these two books. Read the review.

Marching with Audre Lord and Virginia Woolf

January 24, 2017

Literature in motion at the Women’s March on Washington, the day after the inauguration: “But protests run on words as well as actions. ‘Your silence will not protect you’: Audre Lorde said it forty years ago, in a talk given at the Modern Language Association’s annual conference and later published as the essay ‘The Transformation… Continue reading »

Recent Writing

  • Schools of Thought Control
  • 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

Recent Posts

  • February newsletter: Purple, green, and gold
  • January newsletter: Making space
  • December newsletter: Routines vs. resolutions

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