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Q&A: Virginia Festival of the Book Shelf Life

February 21, 2021

Want do I listen to when I write? What I do when I can’t write? Find the answers in this author Q&A I did last month for the Virginia Festival of the Book’s Shelf Life series. Do you have any sources of inspiration that you come back to while writing? When I’m stuck, I like… Continue reading »

Book event: Virginia Festival of the Book Shelf Life series

January 24, 2021

Thanks to the Virginia Festival of the Book for inviting me to talk about CLUTTER: AN UNTIDY HISTORY with my good friend Meredith Hindley as part of the festival’s excellent “Shelf Life” series. WATCH IT HERE.   On January 12, Jennifer Howard discussed her book, Clutter: An Untidy History, an expansive assessment of our relationship to the things… Continue reading »

Vox: Quoted in an article on “The New Maximalism”

November 23, 2020

I talked to Vox’s Rebecca Jennings about the Victorian roots of maximalism and the psychic toll of the recent mania for decluttering: Television shows like Hoarders, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, and now The Home Edit, in which a team of organization experts traipse through the pantries of celebrities and explain the importance of color-coding one’s nut butters,… Continue reading »

The Guardian: Quoted in a feature on “Cluttercore”

October 19, 2020

Morwenna Ferrier, the Guardian‘s deputy fashion editor, talked to me for a feature on “Cluttercore: the pandemic trend for celebrating stuff, mess, and comfort”: Clutter has emerged, dusty and triumphant, as a defining byproduct of the pandemic. Yet we are undecided on what to do with it. “Forced inside, some people have been decluttering, absolutely,… Continue reading »

PAWcast: Jennifer Howard ’85 Explains the History of Clutter

October 17, 2020

PAWcast, Princeton Alumni Weekly’s podcast, has posted my conversation with associate editor Carrie Compton about the book and all things clutter-related: This month, Jennifer Howard ’85 discusses her book, Clutter: An Untidy History. Faced with the daunting task of cleaning out her elderly mother’s chaotic and jam-packed home, Howard began to ask herself about our relationship with… Continue reading »

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