Sassy, the Book

Via mb’s Revolving Door: Kara Jesella, beauty and health director at Teen Vogue, is leaving her position to write a book about Sassy magazine with freelancer Marisa Meltzer for Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

How the hell, GC wonders, has this book not been written already? If there was one teen magazine aimed at the awkward, impressionable, aspiring writer, it was Sassy. If there was one magazine teaching teens wit as self-defense, making an entire generation of defensive girls verbally voracious, it was Sassy. If there was one magazine capable of being recalled as fondly as a first car, it was, blah blah blah — that gateway drug to counter-culture and Urban Outfitters, Sassy.

UPDATE: Here’s the deal report, via PM:

Beauty and health director of Teen Vogue Kara Jesella and freelance writer Marisa Meltzer’s HOW SASSY CHANGED MY LIFE, paying tribute to the influential teen magazine that brought feminism to a generation of girls who couldn’t find themselves in Seventeen, and who were as interested in the world around them as they were in the cute guy in study hall, a celebration of all things Sassy, to Denise Oswald at Faber, by Paula Balzer at Sarah Lazin Books (world English).

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