All Tomorrow’s Parties: ROB SPILLMAN & NINA MACLAUGHLIN

Join Tin House editor ROB SPILLMAN and Boston Globe books editor and memoirist NINA MACLAUGHLIN at La Rana Rossa for this discussion of SPILLMAN’s acclaimed memoir, All Tomorrow’s Parties. 

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.

“With wry humor and wonder, Spillman beautifully captures the deadpan hedonism of the East Berliners and the city’s sense of infinite possibility, which, to his frustration, never quite imbues him with his own artistic compulsion. (One is reminded as much of Cyril Connolly’s anti-bildingsroman ‘Enemies of Promise’ as Nick Hornby’s culture besotted ‘High Fidelity.’)”
—New York Times Book Review

This event, hosted by Papercuts J.P., is free and open to the public.