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Jen Howard

@jenhoward.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, journalist. Book and nature lover. Author, CLUTTER: AN UNTIDY HISTORY. Words in WaPo, TLS, NYT, LARB, CHE, EdSurge, etc. She/her. Reading, writing, and gardening in DC. Newsletter: jenniferhoward.substack.com

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 10/10/2026
Curious about 2026 literature laureate Anne Carson but unsure which of her books to pick up first? Check out some recommendations shared by Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel Committee at the Swedish Academy: www.nobelprize.org/what-to-read-ann… Happy Sunday reading!
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Book tips for Anne Carson
Read the book recommendations for 2026 literature laureate Anne Carson.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Farewell to Eva Marie Saint, the sharpest and sexiest of the Hitchcock blondes who got to wear one of the best dresses in cinema history
Full shot of Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST wearing the red roses dressSide mid shot of Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST wearing the red roses dress, sharing a drink with Cary GrantThe open back of the red roses dress
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Most authors have a horror story (or two) about typos. But printed mistakes can be creatively intriguing, bibliographically revealing, even highly collectible. Just ask James Joyce. #publishing 📚 #BookSky jenniferhoward.substack.com/p/beautiful-...
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Beautiful mistakes
Celebrating typos as evidence of the humans behind the books
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks for sharing!
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
10yo asked what i did at the festival and i said oh it's a book festival, so i just talked about my books, and he said "yikes" under his breath
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Within 24 hours, [HHS] also convened pharmaceutical manufacturers and physicians to troubleshoot the alarming lack of availability of estradiol patches, an essential menopause hormone treatment, and the [FDA] held a full day of expert panels on female-dosed testosterone..."
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Better late than never. "Menopause has been having a moment lately, and Washington is taking notice. On Sept. 16, the Senate held its first hearing on the dismal state of federally funded menopause research and vast gaps in treatment and care...." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Contributor: There's federal progress on women's health. No joke
States have been the laboratory for policy changes on menopause care and hormone access, and the feds are now following leaders such as California.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/10/2026
Calling all fans of romance novels and democracy! Join today’s phone bank party with mega-popular romance podcast Fated Mates — we will be calling Ohio voters to get out the vote for Sherrod Brown.
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Romance Saves Democracy Phone Bank Party #3 · Indivisible
Attention Romancelandia! It's time to put all the hope, love and joy that romance novels give you into our next Fated States event! Join Jen and Sarah, hosts of the Fated Mates Podcast, and special g...
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think I need to start paying the backyard squirrels for how much entertainment they provide on a daily basis. 🐿️
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shocked (not) to learn that the Kennedy Center was doing all right before you know who took it over. wapo.st/4dg5MJj [gift link]
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over.
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Words to live (and write) by.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Takeaway: if you're an author, it's worth keeping an eye on the availability of your work—and don't be afraid to ask what's going on.
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FYI, if you've tried to order my book through Bookshop.org or your local indie lately and it's showed up as unavailable, my publisher has put in another order with the distributor, so it should be available again soon.
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Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hyperlocal skeet: Props to DC311 for truly excellent hold music (go-go this morning!) and generally kind and helpful customer service folks.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 25/09/2026
“I’ve been getting ready to vote,” says Djvan Carter, who is incarcerated in Maine, where prisoners never lose the right to vote. “But the facility itself, the administration, they don’t help us or guide us. It’s all on us.”
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Maine Prisoners Organize to Protect Their Rare Right to Vote - Bolts
Maine is one of the only places in the country where prisoners keep their right to vote. But logistical barriers to voting still contribute to their larger exclusion from the political process.
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you're into Edwardian publishing intrigues, the whole essay's pretty fun. And props to the John Buchan Society for placing at ad in the TLS on the same page as the essay.
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nothing like 100-year-old literary gossip to get the day off to a brisk start.
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
John Buchan writing to his publishing partner about H.G. Wells in 1920: "quite the most disgusting person we have had to do with I have ever met, and, though I know him pretty well, I do not at all like him." www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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Mr Wells and Mr Buchan
How the novelist fell out with his publisher
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Journalists beware. What a shitty situation. Props to Bethany et al for calling attention to it.
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
That is terrifying. Thanks for sharing your experience.
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bravo.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026
The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/09/2026
Fully electric aviation has some major challenges (mostly: batteries are heavy and don't get lighter as they get used up) but I love the idea of decreasing aircraft emissions through a hybrid approach, perhaps as a step toward new, clever solutions for fully electric air transport in the future.
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
👏👏👏
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"When the ambition to destroy culture is bottomless, the anger must be even deeper. When there is new governance in Washington, the Kennedy Center must be among the things investigated, because it was always the bellwether." wapo.st/46uOtAC [gift link] #KennedyCenter
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Column | The Kennedy Center is empty and in peril. Its community is in anguish.
The fiasco of this week’s closure reveals the truth of President Trump’s motivations — and what the arts community stands to lose.
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am sorry. Heavy times.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026
Could new bus shelter roofs help New Yorkers stay cool in extreme heat? We're testing a few in Brownsville to find out: a green roof covered with native plants, and reflective roofs covered with low-cost, heat-resilient film.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 17/09/2026
A federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center to provide 30 days' notice before major physical changes to the building, including demolition.
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Judge orders Kennedy Center to provide 30 days’ notice before making any major physical changes
A federal judge has ordered the Kennedy Center to provide 30 days’ notice before making any major physical changes to the building, including demolishing it as President Donald Trump has threatened.
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh boy.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 17/09/2026
Tomorrow at 6:30 pm
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Hands Off the Arts to form ‘human chain’ around Kennedy Center
Drag performer Tara Hoot among event organizers
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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 17/09/2026
Today's nice antedating for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "earthfall", for landing on Earth (after nautical "landfall"), from 1952 to 1943. A very recent example would be great: hard to search because of the videogame and the O.S. Card novel. sfdictionary.com/view/2297/ea...
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Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction: earthfall
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Like 364 out of 365.
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No shit, Sherlock. wapo.st/4xoodCL [gift link]
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Americans are tired. Women and young adults, most of all.
A new CDC report shows that nearly 3 out of 4 adults reported feeling fatigued on at least some days in 2024.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
39 library workers are to be cut from San Antonio Public Library (TX) in the latest budget proposal. Folks aren't happy: www.expressnews.com/politics/art...
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City takes heat for cutting 39 library workers in next year's budget
Unionized library workers are lobbying City Council and residents are signing a petition to stop the proposed cuts.
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Susan will be at @politicsprose.bsky.social tonight at 7, talking about WORD SALAD. There will be a livestream if you can't make it in person. politics-prose.com/susan-coll-0...
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Root vegetables, meet synesthesia: @deborahkalb.bsky.social did a Q&A with Susan Keselenko Coll about her new novel, WORD SALAD. deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2026/09/q-wi...
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Q&A with Susan Coll
Susan Coll is the author of the new novel Word Salad . Her other novels include Bookish People . She is an event consul...
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Kennedy Center finances deteriorated sharply after Trump name change": that story here. wapo.st/4xuAiXd [gift link]
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Kennedy Center finances deteriorated sharply after Trump name change
Budget and meeting documents obtained by The Post show ticket revenue and fundraising plummeted even as leaders publicly touted a financial turnaround.
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A reminder from WaPo: "Center leaders have blamed previous management for the institution’s financial problems and said Trump’s name has attracted new donors. But the confidential financial records show that ticket sales and fundraising plunged after trustees added Trump’s name to the building..."
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Actually, make that "mad about," given the current crises was completely avoidable.
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Neil Kleid @neilkleid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“So pour one out for this era of Marvel. And pour one out for comic book publishing in New York City. 90+ years is not a bad run.” Ooooof.
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sad about but not surprised by this: Trump-aligned Kennedy Center board votes to close building www.axios.com/2026/09/15/t...
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Trump-aligned Kennedy Center board votes to close building
A draft resolution proposed sending marquee events off-site during restoration.
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Simply put, Defendants cannot install memorials for President Trump or anyone or anything else at the Kennedy Center without Congress’s blessing,” Cooper said in his ruling. “The board resolution bucks a federal court order and a statute Congress enacted.”
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Judge bars Kennedy Center from adding Trump's name to building again": wapo.st/4iwAT6T [gift link]
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Judge bars Kennedy Center from adding Trump’s name to building again
The center’s Board of Trustees is also set to consider a proposal to shut down the building for renovations.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If a generative AI CEO is telling you something, take it with a grain of salt the size of an iceberg. So if they want regulation now, it is more likely something to do with finances than an immediate existential threat. These dipshits do not care about existential threats other than going bankrupt.
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own
Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is both absurd and revealing. I feel bad for the trees. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/s... [gift link] #conservation #richpeoplebehavingbadly
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The Latest Wealth Flex: Big Trees (Gift Article)
More than ever, rich property owners are spending huge sums on full-grown oaks, palms and baobabs. They don’t have the time or patience to watch them grow.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 12/09/2026
We spoke to 35 sitting and retired federal judges about the threats, intimidation, and harassment they experience for doing their jobs. Improving judicial security is essential for protecting the public and the rule of law. bit.ly/460Z0mQ
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Threats Against Federal Judges Endanger Democracy and Individual Rights
A new Brennan Center report examines the surge in threats faced by judges and how improving judicial security is essential for protecting the public.
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sounds like an opportunity…
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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
No.
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