Even though they aren’t due out for another several days, we have already downloaded the 2-year-old app that will allow you to locate where the closest Girl Scout cookie pop-up shop is located. That’s right: Girl Scout cookie pop-up shops. The logical next step. Read More
It’s not every day an email about the Girl Scouts arrives in our inbox. And, hey, it’s still 67 days until cookie season, according to the up-to-the-second countdown on the company’s website. Why, then, did we receive a Tagalong-flavored dispatch on this day? And why is Cy Vance quoted in it?
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Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers , by Alissa Quart. Perseus, 239 pages, $25.
In this breathless, occasionally raspy treatise about the over-commercialization of adolescence, Alissa Quart piggybacks, Prada knapsack–like, onto a couple of hot trends in the American book business. The first is the rich-kids-say-the-darnedest-things school of journalism, which involves reporters in Read More
