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Praise

“Reading Ellen Willis feels like a great discussion with a witty, politically perceptive friend over Sunday-morning bagels and endless cups of coffee.” –Michael Bronski, The Boston Phoenix Literary Suppleme”[Ellen Willis is] one of a very few writers to articulate a radical vision that frequently butts heads with those of other so-called progressives. . . . She has the gift of being able to untangle contradictions, conflicting thoughts, and confusing feelings to arrive at a radical political analysis seldom seen elsewhere.” –Marcy Sheiner, San Francisco Bay Guardian

“[Willis] suggests new and potentially more productive ways of seeing our political and social problems, ways that might take us beyond our exhausted, circular arguments.” –Paula Geyh, Chicago Tribune

“For thirty years, in a wide arc from The Village Voice and Social Text to The New Yorker and Mirabella, Ellen Willis has been the sixties’ best exponent and a savvy interpreter of American politics and culture.” –George Scialabba, Dissent