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All tomorrow's parties : a memoir
Rob Spillman, editor of Tin House magazine, has led a life defined by restless searching. Born in Germany to two extremely driven musicians, his childhood was spent among the West Berlin cognoscenti, in the epicenter of a city two hundred miles behind the Iron Curtain. There, the Berlin Wall stood as a stark reminder of the split between suppressed dreams and freedom of expression, and the artistic lives surrounding him never felt more authentic. From backstage dressing rooms to the front rows of concert halls, Spillman was inspired to live for art; nothing was more romantic or ideal.
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Male writers continue to dominate literary criticism, Vida study finds
[Erin Belieu], the co-founder of Vida, said: \"Our goal has always been consciousness not quotas. Art doesn't get made by quotas and some years it's going to go forward, some years it's going to slide back a little bit, but over time what we hope for is a shift in consciousness. We want editors, readers and writers to be aware of their habits and open their mind to other voices, and we at Vida do really think that is genuinely happening. And I would say overall we have seen a lot of positive trends over the duration of the five years we've compiled these these figures. \"I don't think anyone's ever suggested we have any bias against women but anything that draws the attention of editors to a striking imbalance has to be a good thing. Unlike many other publications, the TLS is an open shop, we use thousands of reviewers and seek out new critics all the time and we don't count them for gender, or indeed for anything else, apart from their good writing and powers of critical argument. We certainly don't look to fill any quotas. He expressed his exasperation at the slow uptake of such policies in other literary magazines. \"It's really interesting to see some of my fellow editors moan about how hard it is,\" said [Rob Spillman]. \"It's not actually that hard, you just have to pay attention. There really no excuses for not doing due diligence. There's no point in throwing your hands up and saying you believe in gender equality, you actually have to go out and look for it.\"
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Young and restless in grittyEast Berlin
Particularly impressive is Spillman's up-close and in-depth depictions of his younger self swapping opera (\"a hundred-year-old pantomime performed for the rich and comfortable\") for punk and new wave, jettisoning C.S. Lewis for Hunter S. Thompson, flunking out of college, crashing cars and embracing girls and drugs.
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Energy of African literature captured in 'Gods and Soldiers'
While working on an international edition of Tin House magazine, editor and cofounder Rob Spillman found writing coming out of Africa increasingly impressed him. They were stories that needed to be told, and stories united by a sense of urgency. \"Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing\" (Penguin, $16) is\" the culmination of Spillman's continued involvement in the African literary scene.
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Editor's Choice
Limousines, orchids, bad tuxedos and skimpy (but long) pastel dresses abound. Movies like \"Pretty in Pink\" and \"Mean Girls\" inform fluffy consciousness of prom night, but the essays in \"The Time of My Life\" about the rite of passage, by writers like Steve Almond, Pam Houston and Anne Elizabeth Moore, evoke the real torment and anxiety of promgoers -- and shunners. \"While the prom wasn't always a multibillion-dollar industry,\" Rob Spillman writes in his introduction, \"it is safe to say that the psychiatry field has gotten fat on the psychic fallout of prom night.\"
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ALL TOGETHER NOW ; TWO LITERARY MAGAZINES TACKLE SUBJECT OF MUSIC AT SAME TIME
Granta, the British \"magazine of new writing\" with a theme for every issue, has made music the topic of its 76th issue, with writing from Nik Cohn, Nicholson Baker and Greil Marcus, among others. Granta's music issue begins with Cohn's startling insider depiction of rap royalty in New Orleans and includes a piece by Baker on the seaside resort where Debussy completed \"La Mer\" and another Marcus rumination on [Bob Dylan], Harry Smith, folk music and American folklore. \"Does a theme help sell an issue among people it normally wouldn't sell among?\" asks Granta's [Ian Jack]. \"It can do that, and if it's good if it does. The thing about Granta and bookshops is that unless you get on the counter, next to the till, they put you under the dread category with new writing anthologies.\"
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All Tomorrow's Parties
A makeshift rave in an abandoned subway station under the Berlin Wall seemed unimaginable, until it wasn't. So begins [Rob Spillman]'s memoir. Cofounders of the literary magazine, Tin House, Spillman and his wife, Elissa Schappell (Blueprints for Building Better Girls, 2011), are living in East Berlin after the fall of Soviet control and before reunification with the West. It's a no-man's land in time and space.
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Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing
The African experience in a postcolonial, globalized world is a big theme in this fine collection by 30 writers across the continent, from Nobel winners Chinua Achebe and Nadine Gordimer to Nigeria's rising star Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In her essay, \"The Politics of Reading,\" the fine Moroccan novelist Laila Lalami talks about the African diaspora, including those who have settled in the West and write in English.
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