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The writer and actress explore her childhood and youth, which was largely defined by her father's struggle with hoarding. Miller grew up behind the closed doors of her family's idyllic Long Island house, navigating between teetering stacks of aging newspapers, broken computers,…

Introduction to hoardiculture -- Psychologies: the personal library -- Economies: the flea market -- Epistemologies: the crime scene -- Ecologies: an oikos for everything -- Conclusion: archive failures. "This book traces a cultural history of hoarding to expose the psychic, ec…

"This book traces a cultural history of hoarding to expose the psychic, economic, epistemological, and ecological conditions of modernity" "In Possessed, Rebecca R. Falkoff asks how hoarding came to be seen as a mental illness. Hoarding is unique among the disorders included in…

A funny, appealing and big-hearted memoir of how one of Australia's leading comic talents, Corinne Grant, learned to reconcile love, loss, lack of cupboard space and far too much stuff. From every scrunchie she's ever owned, to every pencil case and magazine, it's time for it al…