 Schoenberg's writing on jazz has appeared in "The New York Times", "The Lester Young Reader", "The Oxford Companion to Jazz", and "Masters of the Jazz Saxophone".In the summer of 2002, his first book, "The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz", was published with an introduction by Wynton Marsalis.Schoenberg wrote, "What makes jazz music different from country, classical, rock, and other well-known genres is its basic malleability...The great majority of it is not, as many believe, spun out of the air as if from some ephemeral, phantom spider, but is rather a highly organized and (unfortunately) spontaneous set of theme and variations."