Author Description

<i>Best Music Writing</i> has faithfully collected the year's most compelling writing on music for a decade now, so it's appropriate this special edition be guest-edited by one of the best-known writers on music and popular culture, Greil Marcus, author of <i>Lipstick Traces</i>, <i>Mystery Train</i>, <i>Like a Rolling Stone</i>, and other groundbreaking excursions into the very fabric of music, America, and beyond.<p>As always, Series Editor Daphne Carr has culled an impressively wide range of essays, profiles, news articles, interviews, creative non-fiction, fiction, book reviews, long-format reviews, blog posts, and journal articles on music and music culture, from rock and hip-hop to R&B and jazz to pop, blues, and more. Writers who have been published in <i>Best Music Writing</i> include Alex Ross, Jonathan Lethem, Ann Powers, Dave Eggers, Susan Orlean, and more.