Culture Study Podcast
door Anne Helen Petersen
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How Did Work Communication Become Such a Sh*t Show?
How Did Work Communication Become Such a Sh*t Show?
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A podcast about the culture that surrounds you — with Anne Helen Petersen and a bunch of very smart co-hosts.
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- How Did Work Communication Become Such a Sh*t Show? · 1 u 8 min · Aflevering 149Coworkers using AI to respond to emails written using AI. Coworkers who put the entire email, in caps, in the subject line. Other coworkers who seemingly refuse to use their…
- All Your Book Trends Questions, Answered · 51 min · Aflevering 148GOD THIS EPISODE IS GOOD. I absolutely love talking about the publishing industry with Alyssa Morris: she has such a sharp eye for what makes people feel things (and what does…
- BONUS EPISODE: The Particular Badness of Verity [preview] · 13 minA psychological thriller about writing with three movie stars — sign me up! Let's do this! This is extremely my shit! But Verity has so much going wrong: bad writing, incoherent…
- How to Get Dressed (with Corinne Fay) · 1 u 12 min · Aflevering 147The third installment in our BACK TO SCHOOL Fashion Series is here! Corinne Fay is one of my favorite style writers — in part because she's writing for people that "Style" has…
- Code-switching and Cussing (with Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro!!) · 59 min · Aflevering 146This episode is so chaotic! (Also very fun, very interesting, and obviously very smart.) All of our best laid plans for how it would go went straight out the window — that's what…
- Is the Age of Posting Over? · 1 u 18 min · Aflevering 145This is not an episode about whether or not you should delete your social media accounts — we've had that conversation, and we'll keep having that conversation. Instead, this is…
- How an Article of Clothing Goes Viral · 58 min · Aflevering 144It feels like a real symptom of the modern age that an article of clothing can just start... following you around online. There it is, in your Instagram feed (again, and again…
- BONUS EPISODE: Dungeon Crawler Carl's Utilikilt Masculinity [preview] · 19 minThere are eight books in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, and people have bought fourteen million of them. First published online, then self-published on Amazon, with an…
- When Convenience Actually Kinda Sucks · 1 u 22 min · Aflevering 143Over the last six years, our conversations on Culture Study have often circled back to a handful of recurring themes: contemporary work culture, burnout, optimization culture…
- Fighting is an Art. Here's How To Get Better At It. · 1 u 4 min · Aflevering 142IF YOU NEED HELP ADDING YOUR SUBSCRIBER-ONLY FEED TO YOUR PODCAST PLAYER, JUST CLICK HERE! Conflict happens — and navigating that conflict is essential to a healthy community, a…
- Trying to Have Kids Amidst a Polycrisis · 1 u 9 min · Aflevering 141I love kids. In a different timeline, I'd almost certainly have them. But when I was in my 30s, I looked around — and looked at my own bank account, and the realities of…
- Why Are So Many Men Unraveling? · 1 u 6 min · Aflevering 140A man with a fairytale castle in upstate New York who keeps trying to make a self-produced reality show about "princesses" happen — and become a modern-day Hugh Hefner. A man who…
- BONUS EPISODE: Let's Talk About Friend Breakups [preview] · 11 minIn June, I sent out a Friday Thread prompt that readers had been asking for, in one shape or another, for years: How do we talk about non-romantic breakups? Why do they sting SO…
- The Politics of White Women's Hair · 1 u 18 min · Aflevering 139Let's do some HAIR STUDIES! How does blondeness recruit and convey power? When is curly hair a signifier of unruliness — and when does it say Cool Girl? Will we ever be free of…
- All Your Questions About Personal Style, Answered · 1 u 1 min · Aflevering 138Welcome to the first of our three-part series on BACK TO SCHOOL FASHION, which is really just an excuse for us to talk about style and clothes. Today, the incredible Sophie…
- How Does AI Mess With Our Creativity? · 1 u 15 min · Aflevering 137More than a year ago, Melody put a placeholder in our shared podcast planning document: SOMETHING SMART ABOUT AI. We were sick, bored, or frustrated with the way so many podcasts…
- The Women's Fitness Industrial Complex · 1 u 16 min · Aflevering 136Why is Planned Parenthood telling you that you should lift heavy during your menstrual cycle? Why will no one shut up about protein? How many different ways can a company try and…
- BONUS EPISODE: The Hair (and Women) of The Odyssey [preview] · 4 minTwo bonus episodes in two weeks, what is even happening! Well, The Odyssey happened — and after reading and writing about Matt Damon for this week's newsletter, I knew I wanted…
- The Case For Quitting · 1 u 23 min · Aflevering 135I have aspired to be like Lindsay Crouse — professionally and personally — since the first time I figured out who she was. Killing it as an editor and writer at the New York…
- BONUS EPISODE: The 'Woke' Little House on the Prairie... Kinda Works??? [preview] · 11 minBonus eps are when we go deep on a cultural phenomenon, text, or celebrity that's overwhelming our feeds, charming our pants off, sparking general bewilderment, or, in this case…
- How to Fall in Love with a City · 1 u 20 min · Aflevering 134IF YOU NEED HELP ADDING YOUR SUBSCRIBER-ONLY FEED TO YOUR PODCAST PLAYER, JUST CLICK HERE! Are you struggling to figure out the joys of your new home? Do you keep comparing it…
- Who Are The Heartthrobs of 2026??? · 1 u 8 min · Aflevering 133There are few things I like to do more than argue about the fine gradations of Who Is A Star Today And Why. I love the categorization element (what's the difference between a…
- You Asked for a Parental Death Prep Episode. We Got the Perfect Guest. · 1 u 4 min · Aflevering 132Whatever your relationship is with your parents — incredibly close, estranged, somewhere in-between — there's just so much to handle when one of them dies. It doesn't matter if…
- What Made Our Boomer Moms... Like This? · 1 u 5 min · Aflevering 131We love our boomer moms. And our boomer moms are complicated. When Tracy Clark-Flory first told me about her memoir — in which she discovers the half-sister her mother had at age…
- RF Kuang Answers Your Questions About Dark Academia · 1 u 7 min · Aflevering 130FIRST THINGS FIRST: IF YOU NEED HELP ADDING YOUR SUBSCRIBER-ONLY FEED TO YOUR PODCAST PLAYER, JUST CLICK HERE! Dark Academia is a literary genre. Dark Academia is an aesthetic…
- Intergenerational Friendships Rule · 50 min · Aflevering 129FIRST THINGS FIRST: IF YOU NEED HELP ADDING YOUR SUBSCRIBER-ONLY FEED TO YOUR PODCAST PLAYER, JUST CLICK HERE! When people around my age tell me that no one else their age has…
- BONUS EPISODE: Is Off Campus the Corniest New Show on Television... or The Hottest? [preview] · 18 minBonus eps are when we go deep on a cultural phenomenon, text, or celebrity that's overwhelming our feeds, charming our pants off, or sparking general bewilderment. Off Campus…
- Dozens of Irish Books for Your Summer Reading (with Maggie O’Farrell)! · 45 min · Aflevering 128I LOVE IRISH LITERATURE. And like so many of you, I love the work of Maggie O'Farrell – so when I heard her new book was very Irish (set in the aftermath of The Great Hunger in…
- The Future of Summer Camp, Post-Camp Mystic · 1 u 15 min · Aflevering 127I grew up going to all manner of camps: church camp, science camp, French camp, cheerleading camp... if there was a way for me to be away from home (and have a fun packing list)…
- A Big Juicy Gossip Episode · 1 u 7 min · Aflevering 126This episode is juicy, and it does have gossip — but I admit that it's actually less about specific juicy gossip and more about why we love juicy gossip... gossip about…
- Checking In On The Momfluencers · 1 u 10 min · Aflevering 125This one's a classic Culture Study ep. We've got a return Culture Study guest, Sara Petersen, talking about a recurring Culture Study topic: WTF is going on with the…
- What Do We Do With All This STUFF?? · 1 u 10 min · Aflevering 124This episode is just satisfying. I've heard from so many of you about how to deal with accumulated stuff. Not just accumulated linens, or too many hair products, but stuff with…
- SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: Late to The Pitt Party [preview] · 5 minIn today's BIG MARGARET ANNOUNCEMENT, we mentioned that we'll be doing (consistent) monthly bonus episodes from here on out — and here's the first one! It's part of an ongoing…
- The Content-ification of Wedding Culture · 1 u 8 min · Aflevering 123Weddings are such a rich text. Maybe the richest text? At least how they're performed today, at the intersection of conspicuous consumption and cultural capital. What do your…
- What's With All The Nostalgia For 2008? · 1 u 8 min · Aflevering 122When we wax poetic about the wonders of 2007 and 2008... what are we actually yearning for? Serendipity? Hope? The as-yet uncompromised belief that the arc of history bends…
- A Compelling Conversation about The Morality of Taxes (Especially Right Now) · 1 u 4 min · Aflevering 121Did you see the stat from last week that the U.S. could've fully funded universal daycare for two million children... using the money spent on the War on Iran (only leading up to…
- Surviving Eight Years of Conversion Therapy · 59 min · Aflevering 120When we recorded this episode two weeks ago, we knew that the Supreme Court was planning on releasing a judgment in Chiles v. Salazar — to decide whether Colorado’s law banning…
- The Fascinating Future of the Chain Restaurant · 1 u 14 min · Aflevering 119The future of the chain restaurant is... chicken? I learned so much from this conversation with food systems (and chain restaurant) expert Austin Frerick — from how Sysco…
- Falling in Love with Video Games as an Adult · 52 min · Aflevering 118Did you get into gaming as an adult? Did you come back to gaming as an adult? Or, like me, did you savage people on Bubble Bobble in the early '90s... and are trying to figure…
- Hilary Duff's Irresistible Millennial Mom Image · 1 u 2 min · Aflevering 117It's the second coming of Hilary Duff... but real ones know she never went anywhere. This week we're so lucky to have Allie Jones — author of the superb Gossip Time newsletter…
- Finally a Conversation About a Car-Less Future That Won't Make You Feel Like Crap · 1 u 11 min · Aflevering 116Free Yourself from the Tyranny of the Automobile!! That's the subtitle of the new book Life After Cars, written by the hosts of the popular podcast "War On Cars." And listen, I…
- Just Trust Us on This Queer Historical Romance Ep, It Rules · 60 min · Aflevering 115When I first came up for the idea for the Culture Study Romance Book Club back in January, I knew I wanted every edition to have two books: one contemporary, and one historical…
- The Sociology of Baby Names · 58 min · Aflevering 114Baby names are in inexhaustible cultural text. They're a way to talk about class, race, and gender, of course — but also the way we perform familial respect and coherence. In…
- [PREVIEW] SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: Wuthering Heights Teenage Feeling Edition · 1 minUnstructured conversation! Teenage Feelings! Flesh walls! Abjection! Jacob Elordi's Jacob Elordi-ness! Arguments about the purpose of adaptation! THE GREAT AND VERY SMART…
- A Very Funny Episode About Being a "Childless Freak" · 58 min · Aflevering 112I've written a bunch of mildly serious stuff about having BIG NO-KIDS ENERGY. I've talked with so many others — and published interviews with them! — about how they've negotiated…
- The Ridiculously Interesting History of Weird English Words · 1 u 3 min · Aflevering 111Why is weird spelled like that? Why is yacht pronounced like that? Why is a firefighter a person who fights fires... but a pickpocket is neither a pick nor a pocket? We're so…
- The Heartbreaking (and Largely Unregulated) Business of IVF · 1 u 4 min · Aflevering 110What happens when the "move fast and break things" start-up philosophy comes for infertility treatments? Exactly what you'd expect: cut corners, bad service, aesthetically…
- How an Audiobook Gets Made (with Julia Whelan!) · 1 u 5 min · Aflevering 109How does an audiobook narrator know how to pronounce everything? Do they have editors? How many books can they do a year? What differentiates the live voice from AI — and how do…
- Is Everyone an Influencer Now? · 1 u 12 min · Aflevering 108If you don't make your living creating content online, you probably think of yourself as the furthest thing from an influencer — a designation that has developed the same…
- Let's Collectively Fantasize About a Family-Friendly Society · 1 u 8 min · Aflevering 107"Family-friendly society" sounds SO BORING but listen: it's what we all want. It's what singles and elders want, it's what parents and partnered people without kids want, it's…
