Jane Pratt

This week's Page Six Magazine features a profile of former Sassy editor and Jane founder, Jane Pratt. The story, by Deborah Kolben (not online, like nearly all P6M content), has a little tidbit about the editor's difficult relationship with Condé Nast, the owner (after the corporate shuffle of Fairchild Publication) of her eponymous magazine:

It's not clear who ended the relationship; Jane claims that it was a mutual breakup, though she admits 'there were resentments on both sides.'...  read more »

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Jane Pratt's eponymous Conde Nast magazine may have folded this summer, but the recent sale of her Greenwich Village townhouse might console her. She got more than the $3.65 million asking price for the three-bedroom, 2,200-square-foot townhouse, the Wall Street Journal reported. She bought it six years ago for nearly $2 million.

Erin Boisson Aries of Brown Harris Stevens had the listing.

"“Our inner 15-year-olds are like, oh my God,”" said Marisa Meltzer, co-author of How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time (Faber and Faber), standing next to her collaborator, Kara Jesella, at the aptly named Lolita Bar on the Lower East Side.

The two women were celebrating their 128-page, extensively researched homage to a publication that expanded boundaries of girl culture to include Doc Martens, indie-rock bands and first-person essays using the phrase “blow job.”  read more »