The first author photo on the first collection of… DAVID SAMPSON
Though many of my friends were in on the joke, at first I found the title of Jessica Hopper’s new book, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, uncomfortably arrogant. Given all the female music writers out there slogging through the trenches of male opinion, I was concerned that the wink of the title concealed the old, tired music-critic habit of making grandiose declarations as a means of bulldozing any potential contradictions…