He has been on the staff of The New Yorker magazine since 1996 .
He has written the books The Rest Is Noise : Listening to the Twentieth Century ( 2007 ) and Listen to This ( 2011 ) .
He has been on the staff of The New Yorker magazine since 1996 , and he has written the books The Rest Is Noise : Listening to the Twentieth Century ( 2007 ) and Listen to This ( 2011 ) .