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Archives for Material culture

Podcast: “Our Anxious Relationship to Stuff, with Jen Howard”

September 22, 2020

In the latest episode of her thought-provoking series, Public Intellectual, the amazing Jessa Crispin and I hash out various material messes, including pandemic hoarding and whether divorce is an advanced form of decluttering (!). Thanks to Jessa for having me on the show and for a great convo. Find the episode at the link above… Continue reading »

LitHub: “Let’s blame the Victorians”

September 3, 2020

Thanks to LitHub for running this CLUTTER excerpt in which I suggest we blame the Victorians (at least partly—don’t @ me, Victorianists!) for our contemporary problem with excess stuff. This chapter was a lot of fun to research, BTW—I loved reading about 19th-century material culture. Enjoy!

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

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