Just as Miles Davis' Kind of Blue was one of those jazz albums you saw in the collections of people who otherwise didn't listen to jazz, Glenn Gould's 1955 LP of Bach's Goldberg Variations stuck ...

Katie Hafner, A Romance on Three Legs (Bloomsbury). The story of Glenn Goul d's search for the perfect piano allows us to know the great pianist--and great eccentric--a little better. The book is a ...