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Ann Powers is a critic and correspondent for NPR Music. She has worked for many publications including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Village Voice, and SPIN. She was a founding editor of the SF Weekly and, in the early 2000s, worked as a curator at Seattle's Museum of Popular Culture. She is the author of several books, including GOOD BOOTY: LOVE AND SEX, BLACK AND WHITE, BODY AND SOUL IN AMERICAN CULTURE, forthcoming from Dey Street Books in August 2017.