Anne Helen Petersen
substack.com
Missoula, MT, United States
Contact Anne
Discover and connect with journalists and influencers around the world, save time on email research, monitor the news, and more.
| Recent: |
|
| Past: |
|
Past articles by Anne:
What You Don't Know About the HarperCollins Strike
This week’s episode of WORK APPROPRIATE is for anyone who is exhausted with their workplace treating their identity — their simple act of being who they are — as a problem, featuring practical, actionable (legal and emotional!) advice from Morgan Givens → Read More
When Music is Torture
Talking musical control, discipline, and context with musicologist Lily E. Hirsch → Read More
What if you got to write the sort of books you were desperate for as a teen?
I’ve been following Camryn Garrett for years now. How did I start? Probably we started talking to each other about celebrity in the replies to a mutual’s tweet. That’s often how this sort of thing happens. What I knew was that as a teen, she’d written a massively popular and truly groundbreaking YA Book about navigating life and sex as a teen who was born HIV+……and that I loved reading her… → Read More
The Normalization of "Working Through Covid"
If you value this work and find yourself opening this newsletter every week — please consider becoming a paid subscribing member. Maybe you keep telling yourself you’re going to and keep not doing it because your wallet is in the other room. MAYBE TODAY IS YOUR DAY. → Read More
8 Ways to Make Going Back to the Office Less Stressful
A mandatory return to the office can be stressful if you've had the option of remote work throughout the pandemic. Anne Helen Petersen, co-author of Out of Office, offers tips for employers and employees. → Read More
The Counterintuitive Mechanics of Peloton Addiction
This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. This post is part of an ongoing series on the overarching cultural significance of Peloton. The first two pieces in the series can be found → Read More
Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
This is the Sunday edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. Here is a potentially familiar scene. You are exhausted after working a full day, the sort of day when you felt like your attention was drawn in 20 different directions, where you were ricocheting between… → Read More
Companies Are Embracing Empathy to Keep Employees Happy. It’s Not That Easy
Our society is built around the goals of capitalism—and capitalism, and the ethos of individualism, is inherently in conflict with empathy. → Read More
What It Feels Like to Lose Your Favorite Season
This is the weekend edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. Photo credit: Natalie Behring Everyone has a favorite season, which, at least in my definition, is the season that makes you feel most like yourself. I respect all of your favorite seasons, and your… → Read More
Towards a Unified Theory of Peloton
This is the weekend edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. John Smith/VIEWpress This piece is an experiment. I’ve been wanting to write a long feature on the various components of Peloton for more than a year — and have repeatedly found myself intimidated by the… → Read More
The Back to the Office Maximum
This is the weekend edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. Peter Cade / Getty In the United States, organizations where employees have been largely working from home for the past 16 months are having a mild freak-out. Depending on the organization, they’re hemming… → Read More
consider the quasi-commune
A barn raising in Rainy River District, Ontario, Canada, c. 1900 When I was in 8th grade, all I wanted was a new pair of Umbro soccer shorts. This style is coming back into fashion, so it might be slightly easier to understand the desire today. But my adult self has been baffled for some time by the ardency of that 8th grade desire. It had nothing to do with utility or beauty. I didn’t play… → Read More
Imagine Your Flexible Office Work Future
This is the weekend edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. Last night, I took seven different Google Docs, downloaded them as Word Files, turned the footnotes to endnotes, put them in a big old single Word File, added a table of contents, and sent them to our… → Read More
the diminishing returns of productivity culture
Xerox Ad, c. 1980 This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. In 2006, Karen Ho was an anthropology student at Princeton. She wanted to study the culture of Wall Street, and she understood that the easiest way to gain real access was to work there… → Read More
gaming, in kids' own words
This is the free, Sunday edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. A few weeks ago, I interviewed Dr. Rachel Kowert about the new genre of alarmist rhetoric around kids’ pandemic gaming and screen time. You might not have kids, and you might not spend much time… → Read More
what it means to pandemic, solo
This is the Sunday edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. This is a newsletter about people enduring the pandemic alone. I have read hundreds of articles, actually hundreds, on parents’ difficulties during the pandemic, which feels appropriate: it is really… → Read More
How to prepare for a post-Covid-19 vaccine world
What will America look like after the Covid-19 vaccine? → Read More
Millions of Americans are going hungry this Thanksgiving. Here's who's helping them.
Ad hoc community initiatives are filling the gaps where the government is failing millions of hungry Americans. → Read More
"Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women."
Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / Getty This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. For the newsletter this week, I’m talking with sociologist Jessica Calarco about her recent research on mothers grappling with parenting, partners, anxiety, work, and… → Read More
The 2020 election has terrorized America. But here's our silver lining.
Whether Trump or Biden wins, you need a plan for after the election. → Read More