Sassy
Another book that I need to pre-buy: How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time. It's written by Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer (who was the owner of the old Hayes Valley boutique, Wednesday & Proud), and is scheduled for an April release. As a former Sassy intern, this is a subject that is indeed near and dear to my heart.
Here's the book description from Amazon:
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.