before i lose my style

isabelthespy:

maura:

Would a woman’s magazine in 2012 ever hire a writer who would write about such a wide breadth of topics, and with stylistic authority to boot?

for a high school history project I put together a fake teen magazine from the 60s and my research consisted of browsing seventeen magazine, July-December 1968. completely blew my mind, it was like a different publication. in some ways it was more fucked up (these days they at least pretend you should love your body) but it was LONG and their current events reporting and book reviews/commentary were so…literate? if i remember right some columnist was taking updike to task for his pessimism, contrasting him with the post-WWI generation writers… it was the most fascinating project I ever did, for sure.

Late-sixties Seventeen knew what was up