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Jennifer Howard

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Fiction

“Nobody’s Girl”

April 2, 2018 | Idle Ink

A Cinderella dispatch from somewhere between the glass slippers and the happily-ever-after. Read More at Idle Ink »

“Nerf Guns for Writers”

Feb. 4, 2016 | McSweeney's

A McSweeney's list for your amusement. Read More at McSweeney's »

“Nanoism #591” [otherwise untitled]

April 23, 2014 | Nanoism

It wasn't the ruby slippers I wanted.... Read More at Nanoism »

“Mercury Rising”

2012 | Amazing Graces (Paycock Press)

A short story in the anthology Amazing Graces, edited by Richard Peabody. Read More at Amazing Graces (Paycock Press) »

“Mercy”

Summer 2010 | The Smoking Poet

A piece of flash fiction. I used to ride the D6 bus a lot. (Scroll down the page, which has several stories on it, to get to "Mercy.") Read More at The Smoking Poet »

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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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