2/1/13

Taipei (4 Jun 2013, Vintage)

excerpts
Thought Catalog | Vice

press
Thought Catalog | New York Daily NewsGawker | Paste | Taipei Times | NPR | PopMatters | Slate | Interview | Vulture | Fader | Elle | New York Observer | New York Times | The Millions | Hobart | Vol 1Electric Literature | New York Post | New York Times Book Review | The Globe and Mail | The Organist | New York Observer | Publishers Weekly | Entertainment Weekly | Vice

other
Amazon | IndieBound | iPhone Photos of Taipei | Tao Lin Day

media inquiries
avenezia [at] randomhouse [dot] com

foreign/other rights
BClegg [at] wmeentertainment [dot] com

foreign editions
UK (Canongate) French (Au Diable Vauvert) Spanish (Alpha Decay)



events
6.05 Brooklyn NY—powerHouse, "launch party" DJ'd by Jenn Pelly (Pitchfork) & Carrie Battan (Pitchfork)
6.08 Chicago IL—Printers Row Festival, conversation with Allison Amend, moderated by Gina Frangello
6.10 Cambridge MA—Harvard Book Store, reading/Q&A
6.12 Manhattan NY—Museum of Modern Art, reading
6.17 Seattle WA—Elliott Bay Book Company, 7PM reading/Q&A
6.18 Portland OR—Powell’s, 7PM reading/Q&A
6.19 San Francisco CA—Booksmith, 7:30PM conversation with Jesse Nathan (McSweeney's)
6.20 Los Angeles CA—Skylight Books, 7:30PM reading/Q&A
6.24 Houston TX—Brazos Bookstore, reading/Q&A
6.25 Austin TX—BookPeople, 7PM reading/Q&A
6.26 St. Paul MN—Common Good Books, 7PM reading/Q&A, conversation with Jay Gabler (The Tangential)
6.27 Manhattan NY—McNally Jackson, 7PM conversation with Christian Lorentzen (London Review of Books)
7.09 Brooklyn NY—Spoonbill & Sugartown, reading/Q&A
7.22 Brooklyn NY—BookCourt, panel with Marie Calloway, Ryan McNamara, [TK], moderated by Mike Vilensky (WSJ)

1/15/13

i created a chart re 'the contemporary short story'

6/13/12

vice published my ~2000-word story

12/22/11

vice published my ~1460-word list

12/1/11

i created an acronym: ufsi

8/14/11

vintage purchased north american rights to my 3rd novel

6/10/11

vice published my ~5000-word story

5/24/11

vice is publishing my weekly column titled 'drug-related photoshop art'

week 1 2,000,000mg xanax (wallpaper)
week 2 justin bieber lsd (german, british)
week 3 fat mike in werner herzog's house (fat mike's response, new draft, fat mike's response to new draft)
week 4 pill identifier
week 5 11.8% heavier cocaine ('war on drugs'-anniversary article)
week 6 extreme close-up of a 30mg adderall
week 7 dumbledore levitating valium, adderall, seroquel
week 8 'che-rendered' harry potter (2300px)
week 9 a tyrannosaurus rex on an extremely large dose of mdma
week 10 a sea turtle killing itself with the drug that killed ol' dirty bastard
week 11 my rejected 'the new yorker' cover submission (sasha frere-jones' response, bookforum coverage)
week 12 extreme close-up of a 30mg oxycodone
week 13 tao lin retrospective at the whitney
week 14 xanax for koalas (3182px)
week 15 'large dose of mdma' halloween-costume
week 16 koala crying on trampoline
week 17 psilocybin nicolas cage
week 18 kreayshawn
week 19 world's largest xanax
week 20 gollum
week 21 party cat
week 22 cat-toad hybrid (tumblr)
week 23 110-pound cat
week 24 fabulous cat
'b-sides'/drafts/previews: pancake or steak, extraterrestrial-hugging koala, elderly koala, untitledwerner herzog

4/19/11

'new york observer' published my ~2600-word essay

re the future of the novel (selected coverage: htmlgiant, full stop, the tangential, moby lives)

supplemental material is below (click to enlarge)

4/7/11

'thought catalog' republished my ~1250-word essay

re how to give a reading on mushrooms (1st published by flaunt, view video here)

3/13/11

gawker reported on my livetweeting of a boltbus driver being arrested

2/24/11

'thought catalog' published my ~4600-word essay

2/1/11

'thought catalog' published my ~9500-word essay

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