Sasha Frere-Jones isn't a critic for the Chicago Reader -- he writes for the New Yorker. The author was probably thinking of Jessica Hopper (who is a contributor to the Reader, and was SFJ's cohort in the "Merritt's a racist" debacle a couple years ago.)
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Sasha Frere-Jones isn't a critic for the Chicago Reader -- he writes for the New Yorker. The author was probably thinking of Jessica Hopper (who is a contributor to the Reader, and was SFJ's cohort in the "Merritt's a racist" debacle a couple years ago.)