Tao Lin (1983 - ????)
is the author of 7 books of fiction/poetry.
He founded/edits Muumuu House (est. 2008) & cofounded MDMAfilms (est. 2010).
He may be "booked" here. Selected posts from [this site] are here.
Career overview London Review of Books Oct 2010
Profile Wall Street Journal Jun 2012
Profile The Eye Sep 2011
Profile The Stranger
Profile BlackBook
Profile Associated Press
Profile Nylon
Profile New York Observer
Profile Salon
Profile The Atlantic
Profile The Daily Beast
Profile New York Magazine
Review Taipei Publishers Weekly
Review Richard Yates The Guardian
Review Richard Yates New York Times
Review Richard Yates Boston Globe
Review Richard Yates 3:AM
Review Richard Yates Vice
Review Richard Yates Village Voice
Review Shoplifting from American Apparel The Guardian
Review Shoplifting from American Apparel San Francisco Chronicle
Review Shoplifting from American Apparel Austin Chronicle
Review Shoplifting from American Apparel Los Angeles Times
Review Eeeee Eee Eeee & Bed The Guardian
Review Eeeee Eee Eeee & Bed KGB Bar Lit
Review Eeeee Eee Eeee & Bed Rain Taxi
Review Eeeee Eee Eeee Bookslut
Review Bed The Stranger
Review cognitive-behavioral therapy The Constant Critic
Review cognitive-behavioral therapy Coldfront
Review cognitive-behavioral therapy Paste
Review cognitive-behavioral... & you are... The Offending Apple
Review you are a little bit happier than i am Time Out Chicago
Review you are a little bit happier than i am The Rumpus
Interview Entertainment Weekly Feb 2013
Interview Vice Jan 2013
Interview Brightest Young Things Feb 2011
Interview Thought Catalog Nov 2010
Interview National Post Oct 2010
Interview It's Nice That Sep 2010
Interview ChuckPalahniuk.net
Interview Jacket2
Interview KCRW's Bookworm
Interview The Millions by Deb Olin Unferth
Interview The Rumpus
Interview NYU Local
Interview BBC Radio 2
Interview ANP Quarterly
- 2006 you are a little bit happier than i am (poetry)
- 2007 Bed (stories)
- 2007 Eeeee Eee Eeee (novel)
- 2008 cognitive-behavioral therapy (poetry)
- 2009 Shoplifting from American Apparel (novella)
- 2010 Richard Yates (novel)
- 2013 Taipei (novel) (4 Jun 2013, Vintage)
He has a BA in journalism from NYU and lives in Manhattan NY. He taught a graduate course on The Contemporary Short Story at Sarah Lawrence in 2012 and has presented his writing &/or art at Vassar, Yale, Pratt, KCAI, William & Mary, Duke, LSU, UIC, Manhattan College, New Museum, Museum of Modern Art, other colleges/venues. His books have been translated to 12 languages. His work has been anthologized in Mississippi Review 30 Year Anthology & State of the Union and published by Noon, New York Observer, The Believer, Gawker, Salon, Esquire, The Milan Review, Vanity Fair (Spain), The Stranger, Flaunt, Nylon, Paper, Adbusters, Poetry Foundation. He contributes regularly to Thought Catalog and Vice who publishes his columns Drug-Related Photoshop Art & iPhone Photos of Taipei.
He founded/edits Muumuu House (est. 2008) & cofounded MDMAfilms (est. 2010).
He may be "booked" here. Selected posts from [this site] are here.
SELECTED PRESSCareer overview Asian American Literary Review Apr 2012
Career overview London Review of Books Oct 2010
Profile Wall Street Journal Jun 2012
Profile The Eye Sep 2011
Profile The Stranger
Profile BlackBook
Profile Associated Press
Profile Nylon
Profile New York Observer
Profile Salon
Profile The Atlantic
Profile The Daily Beast
Profile New York Magazine
Review Taipei Publishers Weekly
Review Richard Yates The Guardian
Review Richard Yates New York Times
Review Richard Yates Boston Globe
Review Richard Yates 3:AM
Review Richard Yates Vice
Review Richard Yates Village Voice
Review Shoplifting from American Apparel The Guardian
Review Shoplifting from American Apparel San Francisco Chronicle
Review Shoplifting from American Apparel Austin Chronicle
Review Shoplifting from American Apparel Los Angeles Times
Review Eeeee Eee Eeee & Bed The Guardian
Review Eeeee Eee Eeee & Bed KGB Bar Lit
Review Eeeee Eee Eeee & Bed Rain Taxi
Review Eeeee Eee Eeee Bookslut
Review Bed The Stranger
Review cognitive-behavioral therapy The Constant Critic
Review cognitive-behavioral therapy Coldfront
Review cognitive-behavioral therapy Paste
Review cognitive-behavioral... & you are... The Offending Apple
Review you are a little bit happier than i am Time Out Chicago
Review you are a little bit happier than i am The Rumpus
Interview Entertainment Weekly Feb 2013
Interview Vice Jan 2013
Interview Brightest Young Things Feb 2011
Interview Thought Catalog Nov 2010
Interview National Post Oct 2010
Interview It's Nice That Sep 2010
Interview ChuckPalahniuk.net
Interview Jacket2
Interview KCRW's Bookworm
Interview The Millions by Deb Olin Unferth
Interview The Rumpus
Interview NYU Local
Interview BBC Radio 2
Interview ANP Quarterly
SELECTED WRITING
Fiction Jawbreaker's Major-Label Album
Fiction Relationship Story
Fiction Sasquatch
Fiction Leftover Crack in Red Hook
Fiction Love is a Thing on Sale For More Money Than There Exists
Fiction We Will Drink Our Coffee And Complete Our Novels And...
Fiction Sex After Not Seeing Each Other For A Few Days
Fiction Today The Sky is Blue and White with Bright Blue Spots... (2006 ebook)
Fiction hikikomori (2006 ebook, collaboration with Ellen Kennedy)
Essay Does the Novel Have a Future?
Essay How to Give a Reading On Mushrooms
Essay Koko, The "Talking" Gorilla
Essay Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami
Essay How to Be Considerate on The Internet
Essay Top 10 Worst Fruits to Get Blowjobs From
Essay Top 10 Animals That Don't Have Asses
Essay An Account of Being Arrested for "Trespassing" NYU's Bookstore
Essay @Poetry Foundation re "good/bad in art"
Essay @Poetry Foundation re poems/relationships
Essay Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
Essay Honored Guest by Joy Williams
Essay What I Can Tell You About Seattle Based on the People I've Met Who Are From There
Essay Levels of Greatness a Fiction Writer can Achieve in America
Essay Fighting Elliott Bay Audience
Poetry 12 poems
Poetry 2 poems
Poetry [from cognitive-behavioral therapy]
Poetry ugly fish poem
Poetry room night
Poetry that was bad; i shouldn't have done that
Poetry in manhattan on 29th street across the avenues then over a railing there is a little beach
Poetry this emotion was a little e-book (2006 ebook)
Fiction Relationship Story
Fiction Sasquatch
Fiction Leftover Crack in Red Hook
Fiction Love is a Thing on Sale For More Money Than There Exists
Fiction We Will Drink Our Coffee And Complete Our Novels And...
Fiction Sex After Not Seeing Each Other For A Few Days
Fiction Today The Sky is Blue and White with Bright Blue Spots... (2006 ebook)
Fiction hikikomori (2006 ebook, collaboration with Ellen Kennedy)
Essay Does the Novel Have a Future?
Essay How to Give a Reading On Mushrooms
Essay Koko, The "Talking" Gorilla
Essay Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami
Essay How to Be Considerate on The Internet
Essay Top 10 Worst Fruits to Get Blowjobs From
Essay Top 10 Animals That Don't Have Asses
Essay An Account of Being Arrested for "Trespassing" NYU's Bookstore
Essay @Poetry Foundation re "good/bad in art"
Essay @Poetry Foundation re poems/relationships
Essay Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
Essay Honored Guest by Joy Williams
Essay What I Can Tell You About Seattle Based on the People I've Met Who Are From There
Essay Levels of Greatness a Fiction Writer can Achieve in America
Essay Fighting Elliott Bay Audience
Poetry 12 poems
Poetry 2 poems
Poetry [from cognitive-behavioral therapy]
Poetry ugly fish poem
Poetry room night
Poetry that was bad; i shouldn't have done that
Poetry in manhattan on 29th street across the avenues then over a railing there is a little beach
Poetry this emotion was a little e-book (2006 ebook)
26 Comments:
holy shit
victory over billy by tao lin
Very professional
Is the fact that yours is the "the first two-book story-collection/novel debut since Ann Beattie in 1976" significant in any way, or did you only intend to state a fact?
it gives journalists 'an angle'
this post is targeted at journalists
it's also a fact
'I'm Going To Touch You Very Hard' is a really great poem. where can i find more poems like this?
i bought T.S. elliot's 'The Wasteland' because people told that it was brilliant. i liked it okay.
tao, will you lead a six-week seminar on "Ambivalent Nihilism"?
i can pay the registration fee in smoothies
also, will pet and/or child care be provided?
colin,
i think you can find poems like that in 'a green light' by matthew rohrer maybe
daniel,
i will lead a six week internet low residency seminar on 'ambivalent nihilism,' yes
may 1-june 14
please paypal binky.tabby [at] gmail.com $200
Hi Tao:
I was unable to find a contact e-mail address; hence this informal blog comment. I first came across your work Pindeldyboz, then read more of your fiction and poetry, all of which impressed me greatly.
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hi tao,
i love your bear poem. almost as much as i love bears.
keep up the good writing. it makes me happy.
love,
katie
I love your stuff, man. (thank Jamiee G. for turning me onto you).
Stuart
http://www.stuartgoldmanstories.com
sounds like you wrote frizzin anne frank
Dear Tao Lin,
I am writing an essay about your work for my degree. Currently my title is 'Weary, Wounded People: Tao Lin and Affect in the Post-9/11 Era' - I hope you like it (I think I can come up with a snappier title though).
I have but one question: what year did you start your degree in New York?
Thank you.
dear tao lin,
i had a dream that you called me on my telephone last night. you were cordial but chuckled a bit much for my taste. if this continues i will have to cease enjoying your writing. because i have an aversion to speaking on the phone, especially to strangers, while i sleep.
how did you get my number?
cognitive-behavioral therapy was quite an enjoyable work. thank you?
Dear Tao Lin,
If you give me your email address, I will send you my completed essay.
binky [dot] tabby [at] gmail
bought your first book today. felt weird buying something. in the process of reading everything you've ever published. thanks for working so hard.
i think you should probably give me a free book. it doesn't have to be richard yates, but it can be. i already have eee... and bed. so not those. why should you give me a free book? because i am not very awesome and owning your book might take me just a little bit in the direction of awesomeness. why don't i just go out and buy one? what's my problem? i don't know. i really don't.
I'm french and i've read all i could read of you (Yates, eee, shoplifting, you're a little happier than i am). I understand when some people say that the style is terrible but i think in your novels the style is really just a simple tool, other writers do art with the style whereas you're doing a better art with your subjects, the message, the realist details about life, so never mind about your style (but it gives some effects either). I just wanted to say that i really like what you write and that i'm a little sad because there aren't a lot of people in my connections who know you (unfortunatly i'm 15).
PS: you're not a hipster aren't you ?
Your writing style is in my head all the time. If I was going to get a tattoo of a bear... well you get the picture. Thank you.
Can't wait to catch your book on Vintage. Richard Yates was so underrated. I hope you have peace in your life!
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Dear Tao, I just want to thank you for your works. The first I read was Eeeee Eee Eeee. It was unlike anything I'd read prior and opened my mind. Inspired me greatly in painting and life. I'm very excited to get my hands on Taipei. I also especially love your works with Ellen Kennedy. Thanks again, it's a rarity to find such unique writings and behavior.
Also I really hope you come to Seattle sometime soon for a reading or really anything, I'd love to see that in person.
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