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Rob Spillman

Biography

Rob Spillman

Rob Spillman is editor of Tin House magazine and editorial adviser for Tin House Books, and was recently awarded the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing. His writing has appeared in Boston Review, GQ, the New York Times Book Review, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Vogue and Worth, among others. He was previously the monthly book columnist for Details magazine and is a contributor of book reviews and essays to Salon and Bookforum. He has also worked for Random House, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. He is currently a lecturer in Columbia University's MFA graduate writing program.

Rob Spillman

Books by Rob Spillman

by Rob Spillman - Memoir, Nonfiction

Rob Spillman --- the award-winning, charismatic co-founding editor of the legendary Tin House magazine --- has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authenticity. 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, the writer Elissa Schappell, 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.