Rob Spillmanthe award-winning, charismatic cofounding editor of the legendary Tin House magazinehas 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.

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Spillman, Rob

Arts & Literature

GROVE PRESS

Rob Spillman, the award-winning, charismatic cofounding editor of Tin House, has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authenticity. In All Tomorrow's Parties, he takes us on a journey through the formative years of his youth in search of purposethrough Cold War to post-Wall Berlin and the gritty days of New York City's East Village in the eighties. Born in Germany to two driven musicians, his childhood was spent backstage 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. It was against this distinctive backdrop that he became inspired to live for art. 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 moved to the bullet-pocked, anarchic streets of East Berlin in search of the bohemian lifestyle of their idols. But Spillman’s constant strivingfor inspiration and for identityultimately led him to discover that he was chasing the one thing that had always eluded him: a place, or person, to call home. All Tomorrow’s Parties is an intimate, exhilarating, and heartfelt memoir; a colorful, music-filled coming-of-age portrait of an artist’s life and an offbeat exploration of a shifting Berlin on the cusp of cultural renaissance.

Editor Win McCormack started Tin House in 1999 as an antidote to "those stuffy, staid literary magazines that go down like cough medicine.” His gamble has paid off handsomely Tin House is now ranked alongside such magazines as McSweeney’s and The Paris Review as one of the most important contemporary literary venues. Noted also for its high-style design, Tin House features the best writers on the scene, along with a new generation of talent the editors believe will become significant writers of the future. Equally engaged with pop culture and high art, the Tin House: Graphic Issue expands the magazine’s mission by exploring the ways in which visual art and text interact or collide. Incorporating original art, stories, and interviews, this issue highlights the work of the most provocative graphic novelists, political cartoonists, artists, and writers today.

Tin House: Graphic Issue (Tin House Magazine)

Literature & Fiction

MacArthur, Holly

McCormack, Win

Montgomery, Lee

Contemporary

Tin House Magazine

The literary magazine people are talking about

Tin House Magazine: Summer Fiction: Vol. 08, No. 4

Wildgen, Michelle

United States

Beautifully designed and showcasing the best of both well-known writers and rising stars, Tin House has pulled out of the pack to gain a reputation as the most important of contemporary literary magazines. Outsider literature, like outsider art and music, has become increasingly popular in our corporatized, consumerist society. The Spring theme issue of Tin House examines this trend in depth. Subtitled Off the Grid,” this special issue includes powerful work by or about people or institutions that function  or don’t  out of the bounds of normal” society. Highlighting a unique kind of raw creativity unmediated by formal training or standard narrative strategies, the issue includes a Lost & Found” section that contains brief appreciations of texts written outside of conventional publishing, writings done in prison and mental institutions, exile and in secret,” and in fantastic realms beyond.

Tin House: Spring Issue 2008: Off the Grid

Tin House is an award-winning literary magazine that publishes new writers as well as more established voices; essays as well as fiction, poetry, and interviews.

Tin House Magazine: Summer Reading 2010: Vol. 11, No. 4

[Read by Malcolm Hillgartner] From the award-winning, esteemed cofounding editor of the legendary Tin House magazine, All Tomorrow's Parties is an intimate, spirited memoir of a rebellious young man's fierce pursuit of an artistic life and a portrait of a shifting Berlin in the midst of a cultural renaissance. Rob Spillman 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.

Humor & Entertainment

Blackstone Audiobooks

Featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from established authors and new voices alike, the Candy Issue explores those sweet, seductive things we crave, but that might also ruin us. Candy is all sugary, brightly colored, dangerous temptation―from jawbreakers to candy floss. From the comforting and childlike to those desirable things that can easily turn lurid and even destructive.Featuring stories, essays, and poems on appetites and the pursuit of pleasure, the hard edge on something sickly sweet, and the eternal allure of something you can’t quite trust. Candy―everyone wants more than is good for them.

Tin House Magazine: Candy: Vol. 19, No. 3 (Tin House Magazine, 75)

Literary

Throw on your sunglasses and prop up the parasol, Tin House is back with another Summer Reading edition. Enjoy the hottest new fiction, shine some light with uniquely personal nonfiction, and then cool off in the shade with the poets.

Tin House: Summer Reading 2018

Tin House Books

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All Tomorrow's Parties: A Memoir

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Memoir

Tin House: Graphic Issue (Tin House Magazine)

Tin House Magazine: Summer Fiction: Vol. 08, No. 4

Tin House: Spring Issue 2008: Off the Grid

Tin House Magazine: Summer Reading 2010: Vol. 11, No. 4

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Memoir

Tin House Magazine: Candy: Vol. 19, No. 3 (Tin House Magazine, 75)

Tin House: Summer Reading 2018