Since leaving Gossip Wolf in 2012, music journalist Jessica Hopper has really hit the skids. In the years since, she’s been reduced to writing and editorial work for bit players MTV News, Spotify, and Pitchfork, among others (and hosting a season of KCRW’s award-winning podcast Lost Notes). Sad! This week she’s publishing a revised and expanded edition of her 2015 book, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, with a foreword by Samantha Irby, heaps of previously uncollected material, and a touchingly autobiographical afterword. Hopper’s virtual book tour includes three dates this week, including a discussion on Thursday with critic Greil Marcus, and on August 26 she’ll participate in a Chicago Reader Book Club event.
Footnotes by DJ Spinn, Amal Hubert, Angel Bat Dawid, the Chicago Bucket Boys, Elisha Chandler
