Alex Ross
Alex Ross has been the music critic of 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 has been the music critic of 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. See less
Alex Ross's Featured Books
Alex Ross book reviews
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The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
good reading
This is a well written book, unlike a boring college text book. I was suprised that the author took a storyline approach, which made these musical (artists) come to life as real people.
Still ... Read More
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Earth X
Twisting Marvel saga requires extra effort
Ross and Krueger's opus to an Earth that has really changed as Hydra spreads like a zombie-like curse, heroes are absorbed and/or beaten like nothing else in a normal comic book universe. You'll ... Read More
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Justice
Alex Ross rules
This book is great end to the Justice series.
It opens up with Shazam with his friends and they attack him and how the other people attack the heroes and how everyone is used. The heroes also have ... Read More