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Erin Blakemore

Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List

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

by Erin Blakemore October 16, 2017October 19, 2022

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

Posted inReading List, Unapologetic Women

The Unknowable Diana, 20 Years On: A Reading List

by Erin Blakemore August 31, 2017October 19, 2022

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

Posted inArts & Culture, History, Unapologetic Women

It Takes a Village: A ‘Village Voice’ Reading List

by Erin Blakemore August 24, 2017October 19, 2022

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

Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List

Our Zombies, Ourselves: An Undead Reading List

by Erin Blakemore July 19, 2017October 19, 2022

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

Posted inCurrent Events, Uncategorized

The Press Has Always Been a Guest in the President’s Home

by Erin Blakemore June 30, 2017October 19, 2022

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

Posted inArts & Culture, Uncategorized

Desperately Seeking Daniel Day-Lewis

by Erin Blakemore June 23, 2017October 19, 2022

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

Posted inReading List

Unknowable Dads: A Father’s Day Reading List

by Erin Blakemore June 18, 2017October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inUnapologetic Women, Writing

Arundhati Roy Doesn’t Care What You Think 

by Erin Blakemore June 9, 2017October 19, 2022

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

Posted inReading List

Between Life and Death, There’s San Francisco: A Reading List

by Erin Blakemore May 27, 2017October 19, 2022

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

Posted inReading List

Rich Teeth, Poor Teeth: Life Along the Dental Divide

by Erin Blakemore May 18, 2017October 19, 2022

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

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