Substacks recommended by Anne Helen Petersen

Recommended by Anne Helen Petersen

To the Bed

By Loretta

Musings on post-divorce life, sex and culture by a mid-40s mom whose libido has gone through the roof.

The Auntie Bulletin

By Lisa Sibbett

Practical everyday kinship.

Big Undies

By Corinne Fay

A newsletter about clothes.

The Culture Study Podcast

By Anne Helen Petersen

A podcast about the culture that surrounds you — with Anne Helen Petersen and a bunch of very smart co-hosts

Big Salad

By Joanna Goddard

Life advice, fun finds, and dating gossip — from Joanna Goddard and the Cup of Jo team.

Creative Fuel with Anna Brones

A newsletter and community dedicated to exploring the intersection of creativity and everyday life with Anna Brones. For the creative energy that resides in all of us.

Your House Machine

By Rebecca

Tactical advice for streamlining your home using systems thinking and engineering concepts. Keep your home organized, feel peaceful, and get back time.

GROUP HUG

By Elise Granata

on community craft: the magic of bringing people together and easing the things that keep us apart

That's Marvelous!

By Josh Gondelman

A newsletter for pep talks and general enthusiasm.

In Pursuit of Clean Countertops

By Sara Petersen

Unpacking my obsession with momfluencer culture to destroy the myth of the perfect mama.

Every time I see an momfluencer doing something weird I come to Sara's newsletter and she's already written something brilliant and hilarious about it. So, so good at channeling annoyance into curiosity.

- Anne Helen Petersen

Hmm That's Interesting

By Clara

Culture thoughts of/for/by the Chronically Online, from that girl you may have seen on Instagram or TikTok (alas). Essays, pop culture, interviews, and literature.

Dinner Music

By Jacqui

Left-field grooves and retro gems. Weekly playlists and album recs.

Shangrilogs

By Kelton Wright

High altitude and high hopes in a town of 180 people (and 51 dogs.)

My weekly dose of living-in-community-is-complicated-but-really-matters

- Anne Helen Petersen

Mountain Running & Living

By Sarah Lavender Smith

Personal essays with practical advice about trail running, mountain life & midlife grit.

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

Mad Woman

By Amanda Montei

Essays and conversations on books, culture, craft, language, and all sorts of madness. With a feminist writing group for founding subscribers.

One of the smartest thinkers on the intersection of labor, creativity, intellectual work, and motherhood

- Anne Helen Petersen

Read Max

By Max Read

Explaining the weird new future, one newsletter at a time. Subscribe for a twice weekly delivery of internet culture, mega-platform grotesquerie, crypto conspiracies, deep forum lore, fringe politics, and other artifacts of what's to come.

Some Dogs

By Charlie Warzel

This blog is about dogs

Hung Up

By hunter harris

A newsletter about movies, tv, the celebrity industrial complex, and personal pop culture obsessions. Delivered twice a week to your inbox, written by Hunter Harris.

Gossip Time

By Allie Jones

A weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones.

On the Commons

By Antonia Malchik

Ownership, property, and what is stolen in the privatization of the commons.

Supernuclear

By Phil & Gillian

How to live near (and with) friends

The White Pages

By Garrett

What if we could build something better?

If you're a white person trying to dismantle white supremacist culture where it starts (with us!!) this is for you

- Anne Helen Petersen

sweater weather

By Brandon

essays about literature, culture, and so many feelings.

An Irritable Métis

By Chris La Tray

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions (8/20/2024), and 2023–2025 Montana Poet Laureate.

People often ask me the newsletter *I* always open. It's always this one.

- Anne Helen Petersen

Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith

An anti-diet, fat positive community about body liberation. And good snacks.

Uncompromising, clear-eyed dismantling of diet culture

- Anne Helen Petersen

Men Yell at Me

By lyz

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.

Do you want to laugh while also getting really pissed off at systemic injustice? Do you also want to know about the best gas station pizza? Lyz rules.

- Anne Helen Petersen

You've Got Lipstick on Your Chin

By Arabelle Sicardi

A beauty industry newsletter that publishes news, beauty criticism, and longform essays. Beauty is terror, but it can be care, too. I walk the line between these landscapes.

Deez Links

By Delia Cai

the original fixations report: recs, reviews, & ruminations on our online quality of life