Check out this lovely article about our zine in the September issue of Matchbook Mag.
What’s refreshing about GC is that for Thessaly and Jenna smart doesn’t mean pompous. Girl Crush effortlessly mixes highbrow and lowbrow pop culture references with the grace and aptitude that true fashionistas use to mix designer clothing and H&M. Their zine is the literary equivalent of pairing a Stella McCartney blouse with a pair of Topshop short-shorts.
Zan Romanoff’s essay in Girl Crush about Joan Didion was excerpted on The Paris Review Daily today (along with Julia Felsenthal’s illustration of Didion):
Of course, no one knows this better than Joan Didion. She loves the state as only its exiles can; she recognizes that California is a land for the stupid and beautiful and she knows that there is still a romance to it that, even if you are not stupid or beautiful, makes you wish to belong. I began to read her seriously in my own exile, in a Connecticut dorm room, where she remade California into a land of words, a place I recognized for its splendor as well as its terrible power. Finally, here was a landscape so wholly encompassing that it had room for us all—even its shaky, withdrawn daughters.Read the rest here.
This morning, we lovingly packed, sealed and stamped more than 200 copies of GIRL CRUSH ZINE!!! We shipped them all over the world — to Singapore, Virginia, Minneapolis, Australia and beyond! They should start arriving in your mailboxes as early as Thursday and we can’t W A I T to hear what you think. We’d love it if you sent us your thoughts about the zine, snapshots GIFs, anything you want! More exciting announcements to come too, so stay tuned!
There we are at McNally Jackson! Right next to n+1 and Nicholson Baker! —Thessaly
Post-party biz: Shipping out orders!
We came, we partied, we hugged, we gushed & we CRUSHED. Love, love, love. (See the rest of the glamorshots here!)
Eee! We did it! Thank you to EVERYONE who came. (Party pictures coming soon.) We had a blast!! —T&J
Tonight’s the big night! Are you ready? We are!
They’re here!!!
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