| All Tomorrow's Parties: A Memoir Contributor(s): Spillman, Rob (Author), Hillgartner, Malcolm (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1504729781 ISBN-13: 9781504729789 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.2" W x 5.8" (0.57 lbs) |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hillgartner, Malcolm: - Malcolm Hillgartner is an actor, author, playwright, and professional narrator. Under the name Jahnna N. Malcolm, he and his wife, Jahnna Beecham, have written over one hundred books for young readers; their musicals have played in theaters across America. His audiobook credits include works by Dean Koontz, Nelson Algren, and William F. Buckley Jr. Rob Spillman is editor of Tin House magazine and editorial advisor of Tin House Books. He was previously the monthly book columnist for Details magazine and edited Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing. He has written for Vogue, GQ, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, the Boston Review, and the New York Times Book Review, among many others. Spillman has also worked for Random House, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker. He teaches at various MFA programs, including Columbia University's. |