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Out of the Vinyl Deeps
*Winner of the 2011 ASCAP Deems Taylor award for Pop Music
*Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2011 for Criticism
*Spin’s #1 Music Book of the Year
*1 of the L.A. Times’ 10 Best Books of 2011
*1 of the New Republic’s Best Books of 2011
“At a time when rock clichés were still being invented, Willis was already leaving them behind.” —Rolling Stone
“Canon-changing…[Willis] celebrated the seriousness of pleasure and relished the pleasure of thinking seriously.” —New York Times
“A timeless compendium of clear thinking and fresh, humane, and persuasive prose.”—Jonathan Lethem
“It’s like unearthing the holy grail of rock criticism!” —Kathleen Hanna
An anthology of Ellen Willis’s rock criticism, “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music” (U of Minnesota), features essays by New Yorker pop music critic Sasha Frere-Jones, Best Music Writing editor Daphne Carr, and Rollingstone.com editor Evie Nagy.
Daphne, Evie and I held a historic conference celebrating EW’s work as a pop music critic, feminist, writer and thinker on April 30, 2011 called “Sex, Hope, & Rock and Roll: The Music Writing of Ellen Willis.” Click here to see the lineup.
For press q’s, email Heather Skinner, Skinn077 at umn dot edu
Email Nona: ellenwillis2011 at gmail dot com
PRESS CLIPPINGS:
Evelyn McDonnell in the NY Times
Rob Sheffield at Rolling Stone (4 Stars)
Ken Tucker at Entertainment Weekly (grade: A)
Review at Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)
David L. Uhlin at the L.A. Times
Sara Marcus at the L.A. Review of Books
Q&A with Sasha Frere-Jones in the New Yorker
…and his foreword from the bookAnn Powers on All Things Considered
…and at NPR’s The RecordMaura Johnston at the Village Voice
Nona and Devon Powers on GRITtv with Laura Flanders
The Observer’s Very Short List
Q&A with Nona in the Boston Globe
New York Post (“required reading”)
Judy Berman at Slate’s Double X
Marisa Meltzer at Paris Review
Kathleen Massara at Flavorwire
Sarah Jaffe at Bitch Blogs’ B Sides
Julianne Escobedo Shepherd at Alternet
Jesse Sposato at New York Press
Eric Danton at the Hartford Courant
Review at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Ezra Glinter at Jewish Daily Forward
Podcast with Nona at Rockcritics.com
Helena Fitzgerald at The New Inquiry
Alex Ross at The Rest Is Noise
Greg Barbrick at BlogCritics.org/Seattle Post Intelligencer
Scott McLemee at Inside Higher Ed
Alyx Vesey at Feminist Music Geek
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