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ELLEN WILLIS (1941-2006) was a groundbreaking radical leftist writer and thinker whose true loves were rock music, feminism, pleasure , and freedom. She was the first pop music critic for The New Yorker and an editor and columnist at the Village Voice. She wrote for numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, the New York Times, The Nation, and Dissent. She was the founder of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University. Other essay collections by Willis published by the University of Minnesota Press are No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays (2012) and Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music (2011). ...

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