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Alex Ross

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Bio

Alex Ross has been the music critic for The New Yorker since 1996. His first book, the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won a National Book Critics Circle Award. His second book, the essay collection Listen to This, received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2008 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015.

Alex Ross Books

New and Selected Stories book cover

New and Selected Stories

Cristina Rivera Garza
Wagnerism book cover

Wagnerism

Alex Ross
Magic for the King! book cover

Magic for the King!

Terrence Hunter
A Portrait in 4 Movements book cover

A Portrait in 4 Movements

Andrew Patner
Stan Lee's How to Draw Superheroes book cover

Stan Lee's How to Draw Superheroes

Stan Lee
The Place Where You Go to Listen book cover

The Place Where You Go to Listen

John Luther Adams
Best Music Writing 2011 book cover

Best Music Writing 2011

Alex Ross
Stan Lee's How to Write Comics book cover

Stan Lee's How to Write Comics

Stan Lee
Listen to This book cover

Listen to This

Alex Ross
The Rest Is Noise book cover

The Rest Is Noise

Alex Ross
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