Alex Ross, music critic for
The New Yorker since 1996 and author of
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, which won the National Book Critics Circle Aw
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ard for Criticism and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, recently told
Newsweek about his five most important books.
One title to make the list:
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion.
An awe-inspiring nonfiction collection. Didion imposes her style on the world, yet records the world as it is.
Read about
all five titles on Ross' list.
--Marshal Zeringue