As far as I can tell, Blake Nelson has never been a seventeen-year-old teenage girl, yet the unassuming forty-something has somehow completely nailed what it is to be a teenage girl in his numerous novels.
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New York Times OpDoc: The Role of Youth
Jon Savage and I were asked by the New York Times to contribute to a new video Opinion section called OpDocs.
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Teenage Fanclub: Eloise Hess
I’ve decided that Eloise Hess is the coolest 16-year-old in California.
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Duval Champs
Hear the Tigers Roar! Celebratory pages from the 1920 Duval High School Annual.
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Being a Girl in 1981
Ever wondered what it was like to be a teenage girl in 1981?
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Stereo & Rockets
Teenage hobbies of the 1970s—model and high powered rocketry & souped up stereo sound systems.
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NYPL Picture Collection: Sleepovers
The pictures collected here are from the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection, a room full of folders upon folders of pictures.
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Come On Killer
Cut, paste and glitterfy—Come on Killer zine is inspired by a stack of ’90s girl mags CoK inherited from a cousin.
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The Brooklyn Enigma
Famous for fasting, Mollie Fancher led a Victorian girls life of sickness and fragility.
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Elizabeth’s List
Artist Sasha Hodges asks young Elizabeth what she’s looking for in a junior high school man.