Anne Helen Petersen 

@annehelen
Author of CULTURE STUDY
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Ask a Divorced Person (in 2025)
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Approximately 72 Old Movies to Fall In Love With
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What Are You Reading (in February)???

Difficult to describe exactly makes this 500-comment thread on parasocial pet relationships so diverting and delightful but you’l have to just trust me

Low Stakes Thread: Parasocial Pet Relationships
The Fascinating (and Surprising) History of Women Drivers

“But the woman endeavoring to provide cultural analyses through the lens of another woman’s celebrity, for example, is not to be trusted for the very same reasons the male cultural critic is deemed trustworthy.”

Maybe I'm Just Jealous

Wasn’t intending to write for today, but sometimes, as all writers know, the idea possesses you and you must write until it comes out.

“It is exhausting, I know, to feel this way. It would feel so nice to try to sink into our individual safeties, whatever form they may take. But the body clings close to the grief our self-preserving mind…

Who Else Is Feeling This In Their Body
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The Heart of Dad Culture
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Tuesday Thread: The Best Corners of Reddit

30 MPH Gusts, Feels Like Temp of 14, Two Days from a Full Moon. Finished writing Chapter 6 of 10 of the book today, which is something, not nothing.