Ellen Willis (1941-2006) was the first pop music critic for the New Yorker and an editor and columnist at the Village Voice . A groundbreaking radical leftist author and thinker, she has contributed to numerous publications, including Rolling Stone , the New York Times , and the Nation , and was the founder of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University. Her work is published in three other books of essays: Out of the Vinyl Deeps, No More Nice Girls, and Don't Think, Smile!.