Check out these amazing pictures that Yvonne took at the Rookie Yearbook One launch. From top to bottom: the Rookie staff, Lena Dunham, Tavi Gevinson, Dave Hill, and Emma Straub with Rookie contributor (I wish I knew your name, brilliant young man.) 

If you can’t get enough Rookie read my (plug-in) recap of the book launch and interview with editor and founder Tiny Genius Tavi Gevinson. From my intro to the interview… 

Rookie Yearbook One launched last week in the basement of McNally Jackson in Nolita, New York. It was the high school basement party to end all basement parties, hosted by the aptly named Amy Rose (old only with wisdom, fresh as a…) who lead us through the night’s readers including Ms. Tavi, several precocious Rookie-ites, and “grown ups” Dave Hill, Sarah Sophie Flicker, Emma Straub, and Lena Dunham. There was candy and soda pop and subsequent sugar highs, crowns of fake flowers, and a cacophony of brilliant youth style. There was a consciousness-raising q&a, a live band performance by Supercute!, and tears, so many tears.

A few nights later, Rookie hosted the alternative prom party to end all alternative prom parties at the Ace Hotel. Ira Glass, surrounded by teens in vintage dresses, got down to The Runaways’ “Cherry Bomb.” Enough said.

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