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La Cieca hears that critic/cat lover Alex Ross is one of this year’s recipients of the MacArthur “genius” grant, to be announced later today.
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I read about ten pages of the book and knew I wasn’t going to like it. Just a succession of anecdotes that were supposed to be significant somehow, but weren’t even interesting anecdotes.
Excellent news. Alex Ross has always written with courage and humour, and and his insights are always immsensely thought-provoking but not being provocative. This will give him space to develop his remarkable intellect, and go to hear more music!
Considering their record, I’m surprised it didn’t go to Tommassini or Mark Swed. Or even Donald Rosenberg.
Now, I just wish the New Yorker would let Ross write more regularly.
it’s not *letting* him write more regularly, he writes probably more than most of the staff writers (remember, when he’s not working on short reviews he’s probably working on a long piece). i’d rather see more long features than just short two pages like frere-jones or the movie critics.