All the Latest Book & Publishing Trends, Explained

Culture Study Podcast

Anne Helen Petersen

Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture, Arts

4.6 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This is an audience of people who love books — and people who have thoughts about the culture around books. Book clubs, BookTok, the popularization of book genres, special editions, the way other people talk about us reading — there’s endless fodder for discussion and analysis. I’m thrilled to have Alyssa Morris, one of the sharpest observers of contemporary book culture, back on the pod to answer all of your questions about very of-this-moment trends (and give some very good advice on how to keep your book club thriving). This one’s a juicy one (and yes I do talk mild s**t about Reese’s Book Club!!!)

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Anne, and I'm here to tell you about a whole bunch of new recordings we have scheduled.
0:05.1	We need your questions for them. One is with the author of a book about the connection between
0:09.7	male grievance culture and climate change, and specifically like denying climate change,
0:15.1	and basically why are men less likely than women to believe in climate change. Super interesting, but we need your questions
0:22.2	to dig deeper into that. We're also working on one about hoarding with someone who grew up in a
0:27.2	family where hoarding was a major problem. So what do you want to ask someone who lived through that?
0:32.5	What do you notice about the hoarding content we consume on TV and social media. Do you want advice on negotiating a
0:38.8	hoarding situation in your own life? There's so many directions you can take that one.
0:43.4	And then for some slightly lighter fare, we're going to do a deep dive on Gwyneth Paltrow with
0:48.0	the author of the new juicy biography. And we've got an episode on birding culture.
0:56.3	We're going to talk about food trends. So, like, what are you seeing in restaurants all over the place? What are you seeing in recipes that
1:00.1	are coming out? Again, take that in any direction you want. And we're also going to explore
1:05.2	hanging out and what makes a good or a bad hang. And we're still taking your request for bookwrecks for our fiction concierge episode.
1:13.8	As always, you can submit your questions, ideas for future episodes, and prompts for the
1:18.9	ask-and-anything segment at tiny URL.com slash culture study pod or check the show notes for a link.
1:25.6	Okay, thanks.
1:26.4	Enjoy today's show.
1:41.0	Music pod or check the show notes for a link. Okay, thanks. Enjoy today's show. This is the Culture Study podcast, and I'm Anne Helen Peterson. I'm Alyssa Morris. I'm a literary agent at Trellis Literary Management, and I'm the author of The Romancing the Phone
1:44.9	Substack.
1:46.1	So you joined us last year for one of our most popular episodes ever, which is entitled
1:50.7	Is Book Talk Actually About Reading?
1:53.8	And first of all, if people haven't listened to that, you know, you don't need to have
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