Jennifer Howard (1)
Auteur de Clutter: An Untidy History
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A propos de l'auteur
Jennifer Howard is a former contributing editor and columnist for the Washington Post and a former senior reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education. A frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, she has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Fine Books Collections, and afficher plus Humanities magazine, among many other publications. She lives in Washington, DC. afficher moins
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Howard, Jennifer
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Washington, D.C.
- Organisations
- National Book Critics Circle, PEN
- Prix et distinctions
- VCCA Fellow (2016), DC CAH Individual Artist Fellowship (2020)
- Courte biographie
- Jennifer Howard lives in Washington, D.C., the city where she was born and raised. She’s the author of CLUTTER: AN UNTIDY HISTORY (Belt Publishing, Sept. 2020). A former contributing editor at the Washington Post and a former senior reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jen is a frequent contributor to the TLS. Her work has also appeared in Humanities magazine, Slate, EdSurge, and many other publications. Her fiction has been published in VQR, the Collagist, the anthology DC Noir (edited by George Pelecanos), and elsewhere.
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Critiques
Clutter: An Untidy History par Jennifer Howard
This little book packs a wonderful punch. It is both a touching personal memoir of loss and cleaning, and a history of, well, "stuff." I read it in one go, and enjoyed every minute.
½1 
JBD1 | 1 autre critique | Sep 19, 2020 |
JBD1 | 1 autre critique | Sep 19, 2020 | A history of how we ended up drowning in a sea of possessions. The book gives a good overview of what happens to all that "stuff" once we no longer want it. We should be aware that it really never goes away whether because it is being reused by someone else, think Goodwill, or whether it ends up in a landfill or floating around in the ocean. The book explains how we became addicted to buying more and more things beginning in the Victorian era, and continuing through present times where our social standing is often equated with how many possessions we own, or as the author points out how many possessions own us.
This is not a how to book but the author says organizing experts recommend that we buy less things of better quality so they last longer, and pay attention to the well known adage "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without: In other words, as the author points out, there are no easy answers.… (plus d'informations)
This is not a how to book but the author says organizing experts recommend that we buy less things of better quality so they last longer, and pay attention to the well known adage "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without: In other words, as the author points out, there are no easy answers.… (plus d'informations)
1 dallenbaugh | 1 autre critique | Sep 19, 2020 |
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- Œuvres
- 3
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 71
- Popularité
- #245,552
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 7
- Langues
- 1
