Jill Bialosky & Rob Spillman discuss and sign The Prize & All Tomorrow’s Parties: A Memoir

In The Prize, Edward Darby has everything a man could hope for: meaningful work, a loving wife, and a beloved daughter. With a rising career as a partner at an esteemed gallery, he strives not to let ambition, money, power, and his dark past corrode the sanctuary of his domestic and private life. Influenced by his father, a brilliant Romantics scholar, Edward has always been more of a purist than an opportunist. But when a celebrated artist controlled by her insecurities betrays him, and another very different artist awakens his heart and stirs up secrets from his past, Edward will find himself unmoored from his marriage, his work, and the memory of his beloved father. And when the finalist of an important prize are announced, and the desperate artists maneuver to seek its validation, Edward soon learns that betrayal comes in many forms, and that he may be hurtling toward an act that challenges his own notions about what comprises a life worth living. A compelling odyssey of a man unhinged by his ideals, The Prize is also an unflinching portrait of a marriage struggling against the corroding tide of time and the proximity to the treacherous fault line between art and money. (Counterpoint LLC)

Rob Spillman, the award-winning, charismatic cofounding editor of the legendary "Tin House" magazine, has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authenticity. Born in Germany to two driven musicians, his childhood was spent 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.
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. In his intimate, entertaining, and heartfelt memoir, Spillman narrates a colorful, music-filled coming-of-age portrait of an artists life that is also a cultural exploration of a shifting Berlin. (Grove Press)

Event date: 
Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 7:00pm
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Book Soup
8818 Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069
The Prize: A Novel By Jill Bialosky Cover Image
$25.00
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ISBN: 9781619025707
Published: Counterpoint - September 15th, 2015

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Memoir By Rob Spillman Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9780802124838
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Published: Grove Press - April 5th, 2016