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A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time
Faber & Faber
April 2007
On Sale: April 17, 2007
144 pages
ISBN: 0571211852
EAN: 9780571211852
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Non-Fiction
For a generation of teenage girls, Sassy magazine was
nothing short of revolutionary—so much so that its audience,
which stretched from tweens to twentysomething women,
remains obsessed with it to this day and back issues are
sold for hefty sums on the Internet. For its brief but
brilliant run from 1988 to 1994, Sassy was the arbiter of
all that was hip and cool, inspiring a dogged devotion from
its readers while almost single-handedly bringing the idea
of girl culture to the mainstream. In the process, Sassy
changed the face of teen magazines in the United States,
paved the way for the unedited voice of blogs, and
influenced the current crop of smart women’s zines, such as
Bust and Bitch, that currently hold sway. How Sassy Changed My Life will present for the first time
the inside story of the magazine’s rise and fall while
celebrating its unique vision and lasting impact. Through
interviews with the staff, columnists, and favorite
personalities we are brought behind the scenes from its
launch to its final issue and witness its unique fusion of
feminism and femininity, its frank commentary on taboo
topics like teen sex and suicide, its battles with
advertisers and the religious right, and the ascension of
its writers from anonymous staffers to celebrities in their
own right.
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