Alex Ross
Music
The New Yorker

Alex Ross has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1993 and its music critic since 1996. His work has also appeared in The New Republic, Slate, The London Review of Books, Transition, Spin, Lingua Franca, and Feed. From 1992 to 1996 he was a critic at The New York Times. He has been featured in Best American Essays, Da Capo Best Music Writing, and Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader. He has received two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for music criticism and a Holtzbrinck fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. His first book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, a cultural history of music since 1900, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He was born in Washington, D.C., in 1968, and now lives in Manhattan.

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