Erin Blakemore, Author at Longreads

Multi-Level Marketing’s Feminine Mystique: A Reading List

The commodification of female friendship began in the suburban living room. Today, it’s booming online.

Why were we personally affected by a woman few knew and even fewer ever understood?

The paper redefined the alt-weekly and introduced readers to a new kind of journalist and critic.

The zombie movie is more than an easy scare. It’s also become an essential lens through which we can view society.

And they can be thrown out at any time, for any reason.

Is this the end of an era for the brilliant, if reluctant, male movie star?

For retailers, fathers have simple needs: books, steaks, gadgets. But the dads most of us grew up with, and without, are a more inscrutable lot.

While critics were measuring her life as the length of time between novels, Arundhati Roy was out in the world, living it.

The Golden Gate Bridge has long embodied the contradictions of the city it overlooks: ambition, connection, innovation, a beginning and an end.

Recent reporting on dental care in America shows that small problems can have enormous medical consequences.