“Kate Sullivan is an amazingly graceful critic whose essays about the White Stripes and the Brill Building, but especially about how pop music functions in our lives, may still be read in 50 years.”
—Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Gold

“Kate Sullivan is at the Sarah Vowell, David Sedaris level, in the way that she’s utterly suited to radio. That’s really, really hard to find.”
—Ira Glass

“Is there some reason that Pop Vultures isn’t on public radio every week, every station? It’s really, really good.”—Bill McKibben, author, The End of Nature