677. Anne Helen Petersen

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Anne Helen Petersen is the guest. Her new book, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, is available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It is the official October pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. A former senior culture writer for BuzzFeed, Petersen now writes her newsletter, Culture Study, as a full-time venture on Substack. She received her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, where she focused on the history of celebrity gossip. Her previous books, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud and Scandals of Classic Hollywood, were featured in NPR, Elle, and the Atlantic. She lives in Missoula, Montana. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc. Support the show on Patreon Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.0	Participate in your democracy. Anne Helen Peterson is my guest today. She is the author of a book
1:25.5	called Can't Even, How Millennials became
1:29.3	the Burnout Generation. It is available now from Houghton-Mifflin-Harkourt, and it is also the
1:35.8	official October pick of the Nervous Breakdown Book Club. The Nervous Breakdown Book Club
1:41.2	is a monthly book club.
1:50.1	For more information on that, just go to the Nervousbreakdown.com and click on book club in the menu bar.
1:53.3	Anne Helen Peterson is a former senior culture writer for BuzzFeed.
1:57.6	She now writes a newsletter called Culture Study as a full-time venture on
2:02.1	Substack. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, where she focused on the
2:08.4	history of celebrity gossip. So just a very interesting book and a very interesting conversation
2:16.0	with Anne Helen Peterson.
2:23.7	Again, it is called Can't Even, How Millennials became the Burnout Generation.
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