Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen to Music

Masterly . . . An instructive guide to opening one's mind and compiling a new kind of playlist . . . succeeds brilliantly

John Clarke, Independent

A remarkable new book . . . goes leaping from Beethoven to Big Black, from Morton Feldman to Curtis Mayfield, identifying continuities while delighting in contrasts

Alex Ross, New Yorker

Smart, provocative . . . in every case informative

August Kleinzahler, The New York Times Book Review

Like a trip into the world's coolest record store

David Browne, Rolling Stone