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Clutter: An Untidy History
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Jennifer Howard

Clutter

An Untidy History

Jennifer Howard

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English
Belt Publishing
01 September 2020
Social & cultural history; Society & Social Sciences; DIY: house maintenance manuals; Household hints
Jennifer Howard has written a brilliant and beautiful meditation on the nature of our attachment to things. Reading Clutter made me long for a life without clutter.--Malcolm Gladwell

I'm sitting on the floor in my mother's house, surrounded by stuff. So begins Jennifer Howard's Clutter, an expansive assessment of our relationship to the things that share and shape our lives. Inspired by the painful process of cleaning out her mother's house, Howard, a former contributing editor for The Washington Post, sets her own personal struggle with clutter against a meticulously researched history of just how the developed world came to drown in material goods.

With sharp prose and an eye for telling detail, she connects the dots between the Industrial Revolution, the Sears & Roebuck catalog, and the Container Store, and shines unsparing light on clutter's darker connections to environmental devastation and hoarding disorder. In an age when Amazon can deliver anything at the click of a mouse and decluttering guru Marie Kondo can become a reality TV star, Howard's bracing analysis has never been more timely.

Slim and compelling, Clutter is a book for anyone struggling to understand why they have so much stuff―and what to do about it.
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Imprint:   Belt Publishing
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 188mm,  Width: 124mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   272g
ISBN:   9781948742726
ISBN 10:   1948742721
Pages:   192
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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 and a contributing writer at EdSurge, she has written for Slate, Bookforum, Fine Books & Collections, and Humanities magazine, among many other publications. Her fiction has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, The Collagist, Blue Moon Review, the collection DC Noir, and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, DC.

Reviews for Clutter: An Untidy History

Howard's exploration of one dark corner of consumer culture is quick-witted and insightful--and, appropriately for the subject, refreshingly concise. ... A keen assessment of one of society's secret shames and its little-understood consequences. --Kirkus Reviews


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