Soundtracking Rob Spillman’s “All Tomorrow’s Parties”

Between his work editing Tin House and his dispatches on literature and politics for Guernica, we’re huge admirers of the work of Rob Spillman, so it’s not surprising that we’re excited for his forthcoming memoir All Tomorrow’s Parties, which encompasses his youth and his time spent in a post-Wall Berlin. His publisher recently released a  playlist for the book taken from the epigraphs of its chapters, which includes music from Can, Béla Bartok, the Sex Pistols, Billie Holiday, and more. […]

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Afternoon Bites: John Darnielle’s Reading, Demetri Martin Interviewed, Ty Segall, and More

  John Darnielle’s reading list is, not surprisingly, excellent. Lots of smart folks — including Christopher R. Weingarten and Jacob Silverman — weighed in at this New York Times piece on the role of critics. And Rob Spillman and Roxane Gay both had smart things to say about Lena Dunham’s book deal. Hannah Tinti is interviewed at Tin House. Demetri Martin on books, stand-up, and more. At Hobart, Jac Jemc interviewed Mary Hamilton. The A.M. Homes/Arrested Development comparison you didn’t know you were […]

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Afternoon Bites: Blake Butler on Dennis Cooper, John Cage, Avid Bookshop, and more

“From the very first sentence, we still find the familiar wicked slant of Cooper’s perennial knack for penetrative dialogue (in more than one sense, and  with a degree of simultaneous awe and terror that I believe is unmatched in fiction), though the trajectory of it has been bent again.” Blake Butler reviews Dennis Cooper’s new novel The Marbled Swarm. (We’ll be hosting Cooper in conversation with Brandon Stosuy in two weeks.) At Tin House’s blog: the first installment of Rob Spillman’s culture […]

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