"I approach music...as a way of knowing the world," says New Yorker music critic and award-winning author Alex Ross in the introduction to his new book, Listen to This.
On Monday, October 25 at 7:30 pm at Westport Library, Ross will talk about his book, whose passionate, insightful, and often witty essays in the end teach us how to listen to music. Free and open to the public, the talk will take place in the Library's McManus Room, and books will be available for purchase and signing afterwards.
Taking its title from a 2004 essay in which Ross described his late-blooming discovery of pop music, the book offers a view of the musical scene from the Renaissance to Radiohead, showcasing the best of Ross's writing from more than a decade at The New Yorker.
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Ross has been the music critic for The New Yorker since 1996. He is also the author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, which was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award.
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