Posts Tagged ‘Piano Girl’

Piano Girl on NPR, Laura Bush

January 22nd, 2009

Piano Girl, a wonderful memoir by Robin Meloy Goldsby gets a full hour on NPR next week! Be sure and visit NPR’s web site for more info. In Robin’s own words:

“Just wanted to let you know that I’ll be on NPR’s Piano Jazz with
Marian McPartland the week of January 27th. It’s a one hour PIANO GIRL
show?she interviews me, then we play some duets, and it’s a lot of
fun. Anyway, maybe the info is something you’d like to post on your
site?the show aires nation-wide (different times in different markets)
but can also be heard (starting January 27th) on the NPR internet site.”

Really, how fabulous is that? Most authors would die for a few minutes on NPR, let alone a whole hour. Of course she DOES have a great talent outside of writing. I’m not sure my mad martini mixing skills would get me an NPR gig. Yea, Robin!

Laura Bush’s memoir, promising “an intimate account of Mrs. Bush’s life experiences, including eight years in the White House,” providing her “recollections of both the personal and historic moments that have defined her life,” to Susan Moldow at Scribner, with Nan Graham editing, at auction, for publication in 2010, by attorney Robert Barnett at Williams & Connolly (world).

Piano Girl: A Memoir

September 10th, 2008

Piano Girl by Robin Meloy Goldsby

First line: “It’s not always a Steinway.”

Robin Meloy Goldsby has played the piano everywhere from a Holiday Inn in suburbia to a private island full of drugged up trophy wives. Her memoir is more of a series of vignettes from her long career playing piano in lounges around the world than a cohesive, linear story, making the collection something you read in bits and pieces than in one sitting, but Piano Girl is fascinating. She writes about the famous people she has worked with along the way – Fred Rogers’ crew, “Sesame Street” cast members – with the same respect that she writes about the waitstaff and fellow musicians that populate her life. Her writing style is direct and funny and she gives the reader a true peek into the world of a musician.

For: Anyone who’s ever played an instrument, or at least has an appreciation for one. – Jenny Coon Peterson

Buy it at Amazon.

 

Author Robin Meloy Goldsby's Book Roots

August 13th, 2008

Robin Meloy Goldsby, author of Piano Girl: A Memoir

 

I’ve chosen these books from my shelf of favorites because each one of them has made an impression on me as an adult writer. I came to writing late in life—my first book was published shortly after my 47th birthday— and I like to think the cumulative effects of decades of reading have served me well.

 

Anything at all by DAVID SEDARIS because he’s the master of personal essay, he’s gay, he’s an American living in France, he hangs portraits of Donna Summer in his window to keep the birds from pecking at theglass, and he writes honest prose that makes me laugh and think all at once. He gets to me. And I subscribe to The New Yorker mainly so I can read his essays before they’re published in books. If you haven’t read any of his books yet, check out the following: Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim.

» Read more: Author Robin Meloy Goldsby's Book Roots

new on the A/B Nightstand

July 17th, 2008

Piano Girl, A Memoir, by Robin Meloy Goldsby

Where Did I Leave My Glasses: The What, When, and Why of Normal Memory Loss by Martha Weinman Lear

Undone, a debut YA novel, by Brooke Taylor

The Summoning, a YA novel by Kelley Armstrong

The Gargoyle, a novel by Andrew Davidson