LISTEN TO THIS
Author: Ross, Alex

Review Date: August 1, 2010
Publisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 384
Price ( Hardback ): $27.00
Publication Date: October 5, 2010
ISBN ( Hardback ): 978-0-374-18774-3
Category: Nonfiction

A vibrant new collection from New Yorker music critic Ross (The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, 2007).

The author brings together the best of his writings, mostly from the New Yorker, with revisions, expansions and a few ...

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