Review
USAToday.com’s Pop Candy Blog, PopMatters “I look forward to it every year!”USA Today “[P]ieces examine the music world in a social context, which makes for a challenging, and engaging, read.”USAToday.com’s Pop Candy blog “[Y]ou really should get the book, which is one of my favorite annual compilations.”BooklistOnline “…essential, as usual.”
Best Music Writing 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 Lipstick Traces, Mystery Train, Like a Rolling Stone, and other groundbreaking excursions into the very fabric of music, America, and beyond. 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 p (more…)