The Persistent Fantasy of the Fashion Magazine Job

From "The Bold Type" to "The Bell Jar," working at a women's magazine has always been portrayed as aspirational. My entire girlhood I spent obsessed with magazines, a journey I can map exactly: It started with furtively reading 16 and Bop and Teen Beat at the grocery store, ogling pictures of JTT and Devon Sawa. I had a subscription to American Girl, a magazine for elementary schoolers with advice about dealing with friend drama and instructions for craft projects. I remember one about how to ma...