Articles

  • 4 days ago | annehelen.substack.com | Anne Petersen

    If you’ve haven’t yet read Friday’s extensive collection of Specific Ways People Are Preparing to Protect Themselves & Their Community — it’s a tremendous resource. And remember that this Wednesday, April 23rd, is the first edition of the Culture Study Cookbook Club — if you signed up to cook a recipe from Hetty Lui McKinnon’s Tenderheart, I can’t wait to hear all about it.

  • 1 week ago | annehelen.substack.com | Anne Petersen

    First: This week’s episode of is so FUN. The topic (fan fiction) is fun, the co-hosts (longtime fanfic readers and writers and hosts of the podcast Mind the Tags) are hilarious, and we managed to talk extensively about taste hierarchies AND a Hermione/Draco Malfoy fanfic. We worked hard to make this one accessible to newbies *and* compelling to longtime practitioners/readers, so click the magic link to listen wherever you get your podcasts….or you can find it here.

  • 1 week ago | annehelen.substack.com | Anne Petersen

    For today’s Tuesday Thread, we’re going to do a variation on the ‘concierge’ sub-genre where people ask how what to read / listen to / watch (and others in the community provide suggestions)…..and instead help each other sell, give away, or acquire items secondhand.

  • 1 week ago | annehelen.substack.com | Anne Petersen

    Big Secret: I can see the backend stats on this newsletter. That means I know that many of the people who open this newsletter the most aren’t paid subscribers. There are so many reasons why that might be the case, but if you have the means and you value the work here — and want to keep interviews like this outside of the paywall — consider becoming a paid subscriber.

  • 1 week ago | annehelen.substack.com | Anne Petersen

    I love Advice Time. I love the questions, I love the answers, I love how diligent people have become at coming back to the thread to find and address later questions to people to don’t feel like their post is left all alone and advice-less.