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The 12 Best Music Books of the Decade (2000-2009)

By Paste Staff on 7:00 AM on November 13, 2009

You've already seen our list of the decade's best books. Today we get more specific... read more

Alex Ross brings the paperback Noise

By Mary Kate Varnau on 4:45 PM on October 15, 2008

Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, recently became a 2008 MacArthur "Genius" fellow. The fellowship came about a year after The Rest is Noise, his 20th-century study of music history, won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award, and took finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Picador has just released The Rest is Noise in paperback, and to mark the occasion, Ross added a number of complementary, interactive features to his website.... read more

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