Meet Me in the Bathroom

“In the page-turning tradition of Please Kill Me and I Want My MTV, Lizzy Goodman’s new oral history, Meet Me in the Bathroom is a post-mortem of rock’s last gasp…You don’t read a book like this. You demolish it whole, like a bag of Funyuns.” - Las Vegas Weekly“Spectacular.” - Playboy“Meet Me in the Bathroom is an impressive document of the time … she’s managed to extract admissions and reflections that are genuinely poignant … distilled into a tome that captures the messy, glorious chaos of New York.” - Noisey“As far as I’m concerned this book is one of the truly great New York stories.” - Rob Sheffield, The Village Voice“An evocative and gossipy oral history…Not only was Ms. Goodman there…but as our revelatory tour guide, she shrewdly jogged the memories of her protagonists…The result is an affectionate, idiosyncratic narrative of the rock scene’s erratic evolution.” - New York Times“beautifully paced, vivid, informative and compelling… a book primarily built on passion, love and homage - a drawled rock’n’roll sonnet to the music, the bands, the city, the scene, the triumphs, the screw-ups, and, of course, ‘the moment’.” - The Guardian“Lizzy Goodman’s extremely comprehensive oral history of the 00s NYC rock scene is hilarious, sordid, fascinating, and infuriating–all at once….Meet Me in the Bathroom is more than a success.” - VICE“There’s warmth and kindness…and great stories about people taking too many drugs…A wonderful book.” - Seth Meyers, Late Night with Seth Meyers“Lizzy Goodman’s deliciously over-reported oral history of early-aughts New York rock, was a monument to the scuzzy magic that occurs when youth, hedonism, ambition, and talent coincide.” - New Yorker“Sharp, funny and dishy oral history…Goodman does a wonderful job of sketching out and filling in this singular time and place…It is a blast…” - Austin American-Statesman“Meet Me in the Bathroom is the juiciest book on rock’n’roll in years…a thrilling, hilarious, gossip-fueled account” - Pitchfork”[Meet Me in the Bathroom] will make any rock ‘n’ roll fan who came of age or lived in New York in the aughts…feel all sorts of warm and cozy nostalgic feelings.” - BuzzFeed“full of fantastic gossip and dreamy anecdotes about the city’s last mythological guitar boys” - The Verge“a compelling non-stop wealth of information that will be inspiring to those familiar with New York and not…this read is a can’t-miss.” - Uproxx“I devoured Meet Me in the Bathroom …That’s what it feels like to read this oral history, as if you’re in a bar or living room with all these people reminiscing and eavesdropping on all the juicy details. A perfect beach read, if there ever was one.” - Laia Garcia, Lenny Letter“In her terrific new book, Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City, 2001-2011, author Lizzy Goodman has meticulously traced the story of that revival” - Paste Magazine“A vivid, kaleidoscopic, extremely fun ode to a moment in time that only just became the past.” - The Cut”[A] gossip-fueled, engaging oral history” - Publishers Weekly

Lizzy Goodman is a journalist whose writing on rock and roll, fashion, and popular culture has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and NME. She is a contributing editor at ELLE and a regular contributor to New York magazine. She lives in upstate New York with her two basset hounds, Joni Mitchell and Jerry Orbach.