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Early-Nineties Revival Alert! Sassy Follows in Spy'’s Footsteps With Tribute Book, Party “

"“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 »