Lizzy Goodman

Lizzy Goodman
Born
Elizabeth Goodman

1980 or 1981 (age 44–45)
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • author
Writing career
SubjectMusic
Notable workMeet Me in the Bathroom (2017)

Lizzy Goodman is an American journalist and author. She has written for NME, Rolling Stone, Elle, New York Magazine, and the New York Times. Her book about the New York indie rock music scene of the early 2000s, Meet Me in the Bathroom (2017), was later turned into a documentary film of the same name.

Early life

Goodman grew up in Corrales, New Mexico. The first concert she bought tickets for and attended with friends was Bush at Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerque, New Mexico on March 22, 1996.

She studied English at University of Pennsylvania. The summer after her freshman year of college she stayed with her grandmother in Manhattan. She got a job at a cafe where she befriended Nick Valensi.

In the early 2000s she worked as a teacher at Buckley School in Manhattan, and lived with Sarah Lewitinn in an apartment on the Lower East Side between 2002 and 2005.

Career

Goodman's career in journalism started as an intern at SPIN. She wrote for Interview and NYLON, before being hired by Rolling Stone, where she later said she "was the only woman in the office on the editorial side, and […] the lowest person on the totem pole."

Her biography of the musician Cat Power, Cat Power: A Good Woman, was published in 2009 by Crown Publishing. This was followed by a book on Lady Gaga's fashion and stagewear titled Lady Gaga: Critical Mass Fashion, which was published in 2010 by St. Martin's Griffin.

In 2017 her book Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 was published. About the New York indie scene in the early 2000s, it featured interviews with The Strokes, Karen O and James Murphy and others.

In 2022, the film Meet Me in the Bathroom, based on her book, was released.

Books

Notes

  1. ↑ as Elizabeth Goodman.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lewitinn, Sarah (25 May 2017). "Book on 2000s NY Rock Scene Has Everyone in It Begging for Redactions, Including Me". Observer. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 Rooney, Conor (May 1, 2018). ""Meet Me in the Bathroom": An Interview with Lizzy Goodman".
  3. ↑ "Soundtrack Of My Life: 'Meet Me In The Bathroom' author Lizzy Goodman". NME. March 8, 2023. Retrieved May 31, 2026.
  4. ↑ "Storytelling with Lizzy Goodman". Smart Marketer. September 10, 2014. Retrieved May 31, 2026.
  5. ↑ Wang, Steffanee (November 3, 2022). "Lizzy Goodman On The Powerful Nostalgia Of 'Meet Me In The Bathroom'". NYLON. Retrieved May 31, 2026.
  6. 1 2 "Cat Power: A Good Woman by Elizabeth Goodman".
  7. 1 2 DaSilva, Leonardo (October 3, 2010). "'Lady Gaga: Critical Mass Fashion'". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved May 31, 2026.
  8. ↑ Ellen, Barbara (August 8, 2017). "Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Lizzy Goodman – review". The Observer. Retrieved May 31, 2026.
  9. ↑ Tijerina, Daniela (4 November 2022). "Meet Me in the Bathroom Writer on How to Know You're Living in a Special Moment". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  10. ↑ Laidlaw, Jennifer (March 5, 2010). "Book review - Cat Power: A Good Woman".
  11. ↑ Frehsée, Nicole (May 20, 2009). "Cat Power: A Good Woman".
  12. ↑ Light, Alan (May 29, 2009). "Music Chronicle". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.