Jessica Hopper is editor-in-chief of the Pitchfork Review and the author of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic.\n\n\u201cI have an agenda. You can\u2019t read my writing and not know that I have a staunch fucking agenda at all times.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp, Blue Apron, and Fracture for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow Notes:\n@jesshopp\nHopper on Longform\nHopper's Pitchfork archive\n[28:00] "Review of Superchunk's I Hate Music" (Brandon Stosuy \u2022 Pitchfork \u2022 Aug 2013)\n[35:00] "The Passion of David Bazan" (Chicago Reader \u2022 July 2009)\n[39:00] "How Selling Out Saved Indie Rock" (BuzzFeed \u2022 Nov 2013)\n[39:00] "Read the 'Stomach-Churning' Sexual Assault Accusations Against R.Kelly In Full" (The Village Voice \u2022 Dec 2013)\n[41:00] "Deconstructing Lana Del Rey" (Spin \u2022 Jan 2012)\n[48:00] The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic (Featherproof Books \u2022 2015)\n[50:00] "Gals/other marginalized folks: what was your 1st brush (in music industry, journalism, scene) w/ idea that you didn't 'count'?" (Twitter \u2022 Aug 2015)\n[52:00] "Where The Girls Aren't" (Rookie \u2022 July 2015)\n[55:00] Hopper's keynote at BIGSOUND (YouTube)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices