One day while driving one of the authors around, she hit upon the idea of starting a band with them. Through this, she met many prolific authors. Goldmark was then a musician whose day job was in book publicity.
The Remainders was founded by Kathi Kamen Goldmark in 1992. Founder Kathi Kamen Goldmark died on May 24, 2012, and the group disbanded a month later, following a memorial concert in her honor. Their performances collectively raised $2 million for charity from their concerts.īand members included Dave Barry, Stephen King, Amy Tan, Sam Barry, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Joel Selvin, James McBride, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount Jr., Barbara Kingsolver, Robert Fulghum, Matt Groening, Tad Bartimus, Greg Iles, Aron Ralston and honorary member Maya Angelou among others, as well as professional musicians such as multi-instrumentalist (and author) Al Kooper, drummer Josh Kelly, guitarist Roger McGuinn and saxophonist Erasmo Paulo.
The band took its self-mocking name from the publishing term ' remaindered book', a work of which the unsold remainder of the publisher's stock of copies is sold at a reduced price. The Rock Bottom Remainders, also known as the Remainders, was an American rock charity supergroup, consisting of published writers, most of them both amateur musicians and popular English-language book, magazine, and newspaper authors.