In this week’s Observer, zine-makers Thessaly LaForce (of The Paris Review) and Jenna Wortham (of The Times) discussed putting together Girl Crush–a publication featuring writing by and about the enviable Jennifer Egan, among others. Ms. LaForce and Ms. Wortham have revealed the Girl Crush cover, and it’s hardly black-on-white Xerox. The peach-colored Read More
Thessaly LaForce, web editor of The Paris Review, and Jenna Wortham, technology reporter for The New York Times, recently came up with the idea for a zine called Girl Crush, about female affection for role models. “It’s someone you want to be like, and someone you think is cool. It’s a slightly Read More
Read any good zines lately? Probably not! But then you probably haven’t seen Marty Wombacher’s Natalie Word.
Like Australopithecus Man to the Facebook generation’s aggressively self-promoted minimalist squibs, paper-and-ink zines proliferated in the ’90s with the advent of cheap desktop publishing software. Titles like Beer Frame, Answer Me! and Murder Can Be Fun littered Read More
