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ELLEN WILLIS (1941–2006) was a groundbreaking radical leftist writer 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, and she also wrote for 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. Her other essay collections published by the University of Minnesota Press are Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll (2012), No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays (2012), and Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music (2011). NONA WILLIS ARONOWITZ is a journalist and editor who has written for the Washington Post, NBC News, The Atlantic, The Nation, The American Prospect, Elle magazine, and Rookie. She is cofounder of Tomorrow magazine and a former fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. She is the coauthor of Girldrive: Criss-crossing America, Redefining Feminism and the editor of Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music (Minnesota, 2011). This page intentionally left blank ...

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