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Joyce Millman is an American television and music critic and writer on popular culture. Her work has been published in The New York Times and The San Francisco Examiner . She was a two-time finalist in criticism for the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 and 1991 for her Examiner columns. [1] She was one of the founders of the online magazine Salon . [1]

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