It’s a new year in the Sassy timeline, and you know what that means: time to crown a new Sassiest Girl In America! The latest crop of hopefuls descend on New York (thanks to Clairol and L.A. Gear), and apparently don’t slow down for photos because other than the winner on the cover, all you get are silver dollar-sized, super-processed photos of them. (If this is what we have to look forward to from the magazine’s new redesign, its first since its launch almost three years ago: boo.) Elsewhere, we hear first-person testimony from staffers’ bouts of depression, a wildly sexist feature on why boys find YOU scary, an excellent short story from copy assistant Jessica Vitkus, the incongruous choice of Nick Cave as What He Said’s celebrity boy, and much more. You’re going to need your reading glasses and a flashlight to make out what’s on some of these pages, so you might as well just let us tell you about it all instead!
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Episode Rundown
It Is January 1991
Feature: Spying On The Sassiest Girls In America
Feature: Why Boys Think You’re So Scary
Feature: When We Were Depressed
Fiction: Chicago
Body Talk
It Happened To Me: Pen Pal Stopped Writing
What He Said: What’s Your Type?
Help
Help For Him
Stuff You Wrote
Goodbye For Now
