Lisa Robinson is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where she has produced music issues and written many major profiles over the past fourteen years. Prior to that, she was a longtime columnist for the New York Post, was syndicated by the New York Times Syndicate, and was an editor of several rock magazines. Robinson was born in New York City, where she still resides.
“Robinson is often delightful company. She spins good yarns and
drops nifty tidbits about a litany of the great and the weird…
There Goes Gravity aims to entertain, but it also illuminates.”
–NYTimes Book Review
“Ms. Robinson seemed to be everywhere in the rock world of the
1970s and ’80s, often as the only woman in a roomful of boys.”
—NYTimes
"Lisa Robinson began reporting at a time when rock journalism 'was
in its infancy and mostly populated by boys who had ambitions to
become the next Norman Mailer.' Her memories of some of music's
biggest legends, from Mick Jagger to Michael Jackson to Lady Gaga
(whom she describes as 'a cute girl in her twenties who had really
good manners'), animate this book."
—NPR.org
“As a pioneering music journalist in the 1970s (working for Creem,
Hit Parader, et al.), Robinson rarely left the house without a VIP
pass dangling from her neck. She shares a lifetime’s worth of
backstage escapades and intimate insights on rock royalty."
—Washington Post Express
“As a journalist, it's Robinson's job to get the story without a
publicist whispering in her ear or lawyers tapping her on the
shoulder or anyone telling her how and what to write. And she's
done it so well, that, no matter what she writes, music artists
love her. After reading this wickedly hilarious, blunt memoir, you
will, too.”
—USA Today
“You’ll struggle to name a rock star Lisa Robinson hasn’t
interviewed over the years.”
—Time Out New York
“Gossipy, witty, and occasionally profound, Robinson writes about
music from a very intimate perspective — whether on tour with the
Rolling Stones in 1975 or eating pasta cooked by Lady Gaga in 2011,
Robinson has an uncanny ability to get close to musicians.”—Boston
Globe
“The excerpts from her long interviews with, say, John Lennon, are
fascinating… Plenty of music fans will be more than ready for this
circuitous, genial, and opinionated walk on the wild side.”
—Booklist
“Robinson’s a lifelong music journalist; think of her memoir as the
literary equivalent of a backstage pass.” –EW
“Tough, smart and with a knack for encountering some of
music's biggest names at pivotal moments, Robinson tells the the
unique story of her career.” —Rolling Stone
“Working mostly from the countless diaries she kept during
her travels, There Goes Gravity moves along at a brisk clip, a
pulsating bass of Robinson’s frankness keeping time throughout.”
—The Riveter
“There Goes Gravity is a lot more than a rock music 'tell-all'… the
author’s insight and knowledge of music elevates [the book] from
your standard, run-of-the-mill, behind-the-scenes expose into a
series of wonderful stories told by someone who, not only, knows of
what she speaks, but loves the people, places and talent that have
crossed her path for all these years…" —The Examiner
“Her excitement is palpable and will leave you wanting to put your
lighter in the air.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Readers should expect several dozen amusing cameos and digressions
along the way, though. The focus may be on the artists, but it is
Robinson’s voice, straightforward and intimate, that makes this
work stand out from the pack. A particularly entertaining rock and
roll memoir that will appeal to a wide audience. Highly recommended
for music or cultural historians and fans of road diaries.”
—Library Journal
“A backstage pass to the greatest circus of the 20th
century.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Making a narrow history approachable and captivating to a broad
audience is a tall order, but Lisa Robinson proves that she is a
master of casting such spells.” —Bustle
“If you care one whit about music and musicians, Gravity is a
must-read.”
—PureWow
“[A]n exceptional read… Readers feel like they’re beside Robinson
as she recalls each incident without sparing a detail. She creates
vibrant portrayals of characteristics, interactions, reactions,
settings, and sounds with her informal yet expertly arranged
prose.”
—PopMatters
“An obsessive recorder and note taker, Robinson has distilled her
hundreds of hours of interviews with legend after legend into bite
sized-stories, through it all successfully negotiating the
balancing act between fan and journalist with a circus performer's
aplomb, a trick she continues as an editor at Vanity
Fair.”
—Paper Magazine
“Robinson’s memoir—an epic account of her 40 plus years of
writing about music—is an all access pass to rock and roll history,
with interviews of everyone from Mick to Eminem to Kanye”
—Departures
“[A] vivid, richly detailed memoir that functions as a de facto
history of rock — and of an edgier, bygone New York.” —Jewish
Daily Forward
“There Goes Gravity offers a magnificent, acute account of style
from '70s rock to punk to mainstream pop.”
—NYMAG, The Cut
“A fast, fun read with delectable serving-sized chapters of
rock & roll history… Lisa Robinson has raised the microphone stand
so high for others to aspire to, and for the readers of music
journalism today, that only makes for better, deeper interviews.”
—Glide magazine
“Much can be learned from Robinson's initiative, demeanor,
and journalistic style in There Goes Gravity. Of course, juicy
details about the biggest musicians of all time are interesting
too.” —DCist
“Now a contributing editor atVanity Fair, music journalist Lisa
Robinson has had a career worth reading about. There Goes Gravity
tells the story of a girl in the boys’ club of rock and roll
journalism.” —DAME magazine
“To say that Lisa Robinson has led an interesting life is an
understatement.” —Brightest Young Things
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