<DIV><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.</DIV>