By the way: Today's comments from Sassy readers who are reuniting after 30 plus years with their favorite writers, like Christina - and meeting new ones to love for just as long – was the whole reason for starting Another Jane Pratt Thing. Thank you all for coming together!
My Sassy subscription was my requested birthday present as teen. I remember savoring every issue and hoarding them for years. I wish I still had them. Sassy is part of why I sent myself (on financial aid) to the boarding school you once profiled. And it probably has something to do with why I moved to NYC and worked in magazines and why I was attracted to my journalist husband who has an irreverent Sassy kind of style to his writing. I adored Christina and the whole cast of characters. Sassy was a game changer.
Thank you thank you a thousand hundred times thank you. It's amazing to think that the thing I dreamed up as my own therapy when I was alienated at boarding school (which is when I came up with the idea for Sassy) then helped get you to the boarding school you were meant for. (Which school, by the way?) Life is amazing and I'm so glad we're all connected.
My teenage self (and my current self) is freaking out that The Jane Pratt replied to my comment! The school was Emma Willard School in Troy, NY. I’m guessing it was in a Sassy issue around 1988.
Amazing! 88 would've meant the very beginning of Sassy because we launched that March. (Funnily enough, Marie Claire just published something saying that Sassy launched in 1992, but YOU know the truth.)
I would pay good money to read anything Christina Kelly writes - grocery list? Bring it on. Shitty poetry? Ooh, yes please! ANYTHING. Her ability with words makes me indescribably happy and helps me to believe that someday, if I look real hard, I too will find my voice - and if I’m bloody lucky, maybe it’ll sound like hers. ❤️
This brings tears to my eyes. You feel about Christina just the way that I do. And I'll tell you what. Many people over the years have tried to write like her and I would love to see something that you write that is exactly like you, instead of like her. If you are ever up for sending me something, write it just the way that you wrote this comment or just the way that you talk, because you have a great voice, and I can hear it in my head, and I would love love love to see it published even more than it already is.
Hell yes I do! I hearted your post a half hour ago but had to wait until now to respond as I was temporarily dead 💀- I’m okay now, not to worry. Let’s do it! 🙌 I promise to leave the shitty poetry beat to Christina! ✍️
Thanks a lot, Jane. Now I have the damn Chia Pet jingle stuck in my head
Oh shit, now you just gave it to me. So we're even!
By the way: Today's comments from Sassy readers who are reuniting after 30 plus years with their favorite writers, like Christina - and meeting new ones to love for just as long – was the whole reason for starting Another Jane Pratt Thing. Thank you all for coming together!
My Sassy subscription was my requested birthday present as teen. I remember savoring every issue and hoarding them for years. I wish I still had them. Sassy is part of why I sent myself (on financial aid) to the boarding school you once profiled. And it probably has something to do with why I moved to NYC and worked in magazines and why I was attracted to my journalist husband who has an irreverent Sassy kind of style to his writing. I adored Christina and the whole cast of characters. Sassy was a game changer.
Thank you thank you a thousand hundred times thank you. It's amazing to think that the thing I dreamed up as my own therapy when I was alienated at boarding school (which is when I came up with the idea for Sassy) then helped get you to the boarding school you were meant for. (Which school, by the way?) Life is amazing and I'm so glad we're all connected.
My teenage self (and my current self) is freaking out that The Jane Pratt replied to my comment! The school was Emma Willard School in Troy, NY. I’m guessing it was in a Sassy issue around 1988.
Amazing! 88 would've meant the very beginning of Sassy because we launched that March. (Funnily enough, Marie Claire just published something saying that Sassy launched in 1992, but YOU know the truth.)
I would pay good money to read anything Christina Kelly writes - grocery list? Bring it on. Shitty poetry? Ooh, yes please! ANYTHING. Her ability with words makes me indescribably happy and helps me to believe that someday, if I look real hard, I too will find my voice - and if I’m bloody lucky, maybe it’ll sound like hers. ❤️
I do write poetry that may be shitty
Hahah there you go again with your simply stated hilarity
This brings tears to my eyes. You feel about Christina just the way that I do. And I'll tell you what. Many people over the years have tried to write like her and I would love to see something that you write that is exactly like you, instead of like her. If you are ever up for sending me something, write it just the way that you wrote this comment or just the way that you talk, because you have a great voice, and I can hear it in my head, and I would love love love to see it published even more than it already is.
I just looked at your Substack and you do have a strong, clear voice! I knew it! Let me know if you want to do something together here.
Hell yes I do! I hearted your post a half hour ago but had to wait until now to respond as I was temporarily dead 💀- I’m okay now, not to worry. Let’s do it! 🙌 I promise to leave the shitty poetry beat to Christina! ✍️
Chia Pet! Oh yeah! Omg! Reunion tour?
No way!
Come on.... we can play with my high school ska band on a reunion tour of "semi-regrettable past musical ventures that were still really fun."
Hahah whatever Christina says