Everyone, and I mean everyone, should read her last book, “Don’t Think, Smile” which is as clear and bullshit-free take on the 90s as there is. Also of course, “Beginning To See The Light” is a classic compilation of Willis’s 60s/70s essays, often about music, but often using music as a jumping off point, a lens from which she took on much larger issues. Obits called her a “feminist” and a “radical” but she was one of the few writers whose work completely transcended such easy or confining labels. She just described the world as she saw, trying o make honest sense of a dishonest mess.