All tomorrow's parties : a memoir by Spillman, Rob, author instant download

All tomorrow's parties : a memoir by Spillman, Rob, author instant download

344 pages ; 21 cm, 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 purpose through 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, \"First Grove Atlantic hardback edition: April 2016\" --Title page verso