Maggie Bullock

Amherst Center

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Author, THE KINGDOM OF PREP (aka the J.Crew book) Out now! Co-founder, https://t.co/ULPFxgxiZW—women overthinking women, weekly

Articles

The Conclave Begins

1 week ago | thespread.media | Rachel Baker |Maggie Bullock

Welcome to Spreadlandia, where two veteran editors readit ALL to winnow out only the best: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, and hot goss—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more.
Razzle-Dazzle 'Em

2 weeks ago | thespread.media | Rachel Baker |Maggie Bullock

Welcome to the Spread, where two veteran editors readit ALL and deliver to you only the best: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, and hot goss—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more. Come hungry!Spreadphiles,We’re gonna to do things a little different around here this week—at least in this intro (your reads are below, as per the usual)—in honor of Karen Durbin.
Clear!

3 weeks ago | thespread.media | Rachel Baker |Maggie Bullock

Two veteran editors readit ALL and deliver to you only the best: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, and hot goss—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more.
You Belong Among the Wildflowers

3 weeks ago | thespread.media | Rachel Baker |Maggie Bullock

Two veteran editors read it ALL and deliver to you only the best: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, and hot goss—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more. Come hungry!Spread Nation,At a moment that finds many of us wondering if we’ll ever get to retire, Cate Blanchett shocked us by doing what might be considered the opposite of “quiet quitting.” “I’m giving up,” she declared recently on a British radio program.
Time (with You) Is Our Religion

1 month ago | thespread.media | Rachel Baker |Maggie Bullock

Two veteran editors read it ALL and deliver to you only the best: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, and hot goss—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more.
Does Drinking Make Me Mean?

1 month ago | bustle.com | Maggie Bullock

On one of the coldest nights in the endless month of February, my husband and I decided to take our two young sons — both freshly shorn at the barbershop and looking unusually presentable — out to our favorite local burger joint. Upon arrival, our collective mood was jolly enough that ordering myself a midweek Manhattan seemed like a fun, celebratory gesture; a drink to draw out the glow of a nice afternoon, not to anaesthetize after a rough one.
Every Married Woman Needs A Battery Boy

Feb 12, 2025 | bustle.com | Maggie Bullock

LifeFor women in long-running relationships, crushes can be a way to feel alive again. What could go wrong? by Maggie BullockFeb. 12, 2025Ariela Basson/Bustle; Getty Images, ShutterstockCrush WeekLast fall, Lauren* had what some might call a wet dream about her toddler’s preschool teacher. This is a man who, in her conscious life, she had never had an untoward thought about.
Great Gray Owl By : Maggie Bullock

Jan 24, 2025 | sandesh.com | Maggie Bullock
The Ballet Influencer and Her MAGA Husband

Oct 25, 2024 | harpersbazaar.com | Maggie Bullock

Sarah Sophie Flicker still remembers the burn. In 2009, the artist and activist was introduced through a friend to Mary Helen Bowers, a former New York City Ballet dancer who was working around the clock to train Natalie Portman to be a credible-looking ballerina for Black Swan. Bowers had a new workout business in mind—she called it Ballet Beautiful—and was looking for clients.
At 40, J. Crew shakes off a midlife crisis

Nov 26, 2023 | nzherald.co.nz | Maggie Bullock

After four decades of business and filing for bankruptcy in 2020, the American retailer is hoping for a renaissance. Twenty-two storeys above the palm-tree-studded court of the Brookfield Place mall in New York’s Battery Park City, the creative director of J. Crew menswear, Brendon Babenzien, was dressed for work on a sunny October morning in a chambray shirt and jeans, topped by a Shetland wool cardigan.