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Jessica Hopper is a Chicago-based music critic and the author of The First Collection of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic. She was formerly the Editorial Director at MTV News, and an editor at Pitchfork and Rookie. Her essays have appeared in Best Music Writing for 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, and 2011. Her book The Girls' Guide to Rocking was named one of 2009's Notable Books For Young Readers by the American Library Association. Her memoir, Night Moves, was published September 2018 from University of Texas Press.

Her forthcoming book, No God But Herself, is an examination of women in pop music in 1975, and is due out in Fall 2021 from MCD x FSG. ...more

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	The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic 4.05 avg rating — 2,342 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Girls' Guide to Rocking: How to Start a Band, Book Gigs, and Get Rolling to Rock Stardom 4.15 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I want it. I need it. Because all these records, they give me a language to decipher just how fucked I am. Because there is a void in my guts which can only be filled by songs.”
― Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

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“No girl escapes teenhood without a keen awareness of exactly how the world sees her, what it expects of her; she knows the weight of the world’s desire for her down to the ounce.”
― Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

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“It is on my short list of why I will one day move to the woods. Nothing is grosser than people after last call.”
― Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

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