Honor

By Justin Davidson
Justin.Davidson@nymag.com

It gives me enormous pleasure to report that Alex's already multi-laureled magnum opus The Rest is Noise was a finalist for a 2008 Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category. And I can only assume that the winning book, "The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945," by Saul Friedlander does even more for genocide than Noise does for music. 

The prize in music went to David Lang's The Little Matchgirl Passion. You can listen to it here.