- This event has passed.
Rob Spillman + Glen David Gold
April 7, 2016 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm UTC+0
Rob Spillman, one of the founding editors of Tin House Magazine, talks with Glen David Gold about his memoir, All Tomorrow’s Parties.
Praise for All Tomorrow’s Parties:
“Spillman’s story of rarefied opera culture as a child, and East German nightlife as an adult, is limpid and lively in its telling, and covers fascinating ground. Spillman is endearing and frank in his various adventures.” —Rachel Kushner
“Achingly beautiful and brilliantly structured.” —David Shields
“Spillman brilliantly—thrillingly—captures the velocity and the changing sounds of youth as it simultaneously hurls away from, and toward, home. This memoir rivets me to the page.” —Nick Flynn
“Part survivor’s manual, part travelogue, part cultural history, it’s a story of an arts-mad, idealistic, brave young man struggling to make his way—and find a place in the world.” —Michael Hainey
About All Tomorrow’s Parties:
Rob Spillman, the award-winning, charismatic cofounding editor of the legendary “Tin House” magazine has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authenticity. Born in Germany to two driven musicians, his childhood was spent among the West Berlin cognoscenti, in a city two hundred miles behind the Iron Curtain. There, the Berlin Wall stood as a stark reminder of the split between East and West, between suppressed dreams and freedom of expression.
After an unsettled youth moving between divorced parents in disparate cities, Spillman would eventually find his way into the literary world of New York City, only to abandon it to return to Berlin just months after the Wall came down. Twenty-five and newly married, Spillman and his wife, the writer Elissa Schappell, moved to the anarchic streets of East Berlin in search of the bohemian lifestyle of their idols. But Spillman soon discovered he was chasing the one thing that had always eluded him: a place, or person, to call home. In his intimate, entertaining, and heartfelt memoir, Spillman narrates a colorful, music-filled coming-of-age portrait of an artist’s life that is also a cultural exploration of a shifting Berlin.