Alex Ross Picks Three . . .

The New Yorker Radio Hour | Sep 23, 2016

Alex Ross, a music critic for The New Yorker, shares three of his favorite things: a minimalist piece for violin and percussion by the composer Linda Catlin Smith, Willa Cather’s novel “Death Comes for the Archbishop” and the Twitter account @finnegansreader, which tweets every line of James Joyce’s novel “Finnegans Wake” a hundred and forty characters at a time.

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