10/12/10

"selected coverage" re Richard Yates

11/26 3:AM Magazine review
11/24 Bill Clegg review
11/24 Vice interview (auxiliary coverage: HTMLGIANT)
11/13 Guardian review
11/11 American Elf review (auxiliary coverage: Moby Lives)
11/02 Thought Catalog interview
10/23 National Post review
10/20 National Post interview
10/14 London Review of Books (full text) career overview (auxiliary coverage: Moby Lives)
10/13 HTMLGIANT (part 2) interview
10/12 HTMLGIANT (part 1) interview
10/12 Boston Phoenix review
9/24 New York Times review (auxiliary coverage: Village Voice, HTMLGIANT, The Alt Report, Thought Catalog)
9/24 Boston Globe review
9/22 The Stranger profile (auxiliary coverage: Gawker, New York Observer, Omnivoracious, MetaFilter, Thought Catalog, The Alt Report, Seattlest, The Economist, Good) (auxiliary auxiliary-coverage: Slog, Slog)
9/22 BlackBook profile
9/22 LA Weekly interview
9/16 Vice review (auxiliary coverage: Moby Lives)
9/16 It's Nice That interview
9/14 Popmatters review
9/11 The Atlantic overview of selected coverage
9/09 NYU Local NYU-related things
9/07 Village Voice review (auxiliary coverage: Meaghan O'Connell)
9/07 Autostraddle review
9/07 Hipster Runoff excerpt (auxiliary coverage: Flavorpill)
9/07 Huffington Post review
9/07 Largehearted Boy essay
9/07 Bookforum review (auxiliary coverage: Thought Catalog)
9/02 Associated Press profile (auxiliary coverage: New York Observer, Random House, Poetry Foundation)
8/26 Time Out New York review
8/24 Nylon profile
8/24 Salon profile (auxiliary coverage: New York Observer)
8/19 Interview interview
8/17 New York Observer profile (auxiliary coverage: Village Voice, HTMLGIANT, MetaFilter, BlackBook, reddit)

Go here for the "official site." Other coverage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 / 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32index Goodreads Amazon

49 Comments:

Blogger blake west said...

nice

12:43 AM  
Blogger matthew said...

'this is really bad'

1:08 AM  
Blogger Calvin Markus said...

interesting

2:19 AM  
Blogger Annandale Dream Gazette said...

Does it bother you when people try to imitate the way you write? Do you think when people talk about your "flat style" they are maybe getting a little distracted? Do you consider your prose "graceful" (I do) or is that a word and idea that you don't like and/or wouldn't choose when talking (if you ever did) about your own prose?

9:39 AM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

'Does it bother you when people try to imitate the way you write?'

no

'Do you think when people talk about your "flat style" they are maybe getting a little distracted?'

no, i feel they are focused on 'flat style'

i don't think i view people as being distracted from things, more that whatever they are focused on is what they are focused on

'Do you consider your prose "graceful" (I do) or is that a word and idea that you don't like and/or wouldn't choose when talking (if you ever did) about your own prose?'

i don't think i have thought of someone's prose as 'graceful' before, but i feel that i would be willing to refer to someone's prose as 'graceful'

10:12 PM  
Blogger Katharine Tillman said...

Today I wrote a blog post about Richard Yates. Sortof. It's really mostly about me, but it's also about Richard Yates. Too bad it is too late for the contest.

http://www.villanelle.org/2010/08/19/tao-lin-nyu-and-teenaged-online-relationships/

4:57 PM  
Blogger JWG said...

Observer thing was neat. His coworkers seem like self-important dicks, but not because they think your writing is shitty. It was cool to learn that you aren't vegan.

Also, I made this for you. I hope it operates on a level of irony you are comfortable with.

http://blingee.com/blingee/view/115641452-Tao-Lin?query=Tao+lIn&offset=0

Almost put a 'bieber fever' gif in there but it seemed excessive.

2:12 AM  
Blogger largehearted boy said...

Don't forget your Largehearted Boy Book Notes piece.

7:29 AM  
Anonymous stephen said...

seems 'mad sweet' re interview in 'interview.' i dig the style/format of that magazine

9:02 AM  
Blogger mario said...

i received 'richard yates' in the mail today and felt happy and then went home and put the book on my desk in my room. then i rode my bike while listening to jacob borshard and went to the grocery store and drank from the drinking fountain then went back home and took a fan from the living room and put it in my room near my bed and lay on my bed and read about 50 pages of 'richard yates' while the fan was blowing on me, periodically thinking things like 'my life seems really good right now.'

9:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

tao what are some things one can do to develop one's brain to be more robot/computer-like

7:46 PM  
Blogger Carlos said...

'tao what are some things one can do to develop one's brain to be more robot/computer-like'

your brain is already computer-like.
you can program it, use it to process information, store information, and catalogue information.

9:53 PM  
Blogger IngridLola said...

awesome, thanks for adding my link under 'other coverage.'

2:08 AM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

@katharine thank you re link
@jwg sweet
@largehearted i have not forgotten
@stephen sweet
@mario sweet
@anonymous i'm not sure, maybe attempt to be 'as specific as possible' when conveying things and to attempt to describe things w/o the use of qualitative abstractions, but i'm not sure
@ingrid sweet

8:52 PM  
Blogger steve roggenbuck said...

i just watched 2012

12:44 AM  
Blogger Poncho said...

how was it, steve

i am more stoked for this book than for that movie

4:49 AM  
Blogger steve roggenbuck said...

2012

1:31 PM  
Blogger Poncho said...

2012

4:50 AM  
Anonymous marshall said...

2013

6:19 PM  
Blogger Maggie May said...

the comment section here is making me feel stoned. or like i'm watching a French movie where there is more smoking or fucking than talking.
i'd never heard of you and now i have!
how bout that for flat.

12:38 AM  
Anonymous richard yates said...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7xh6nyqfO1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg

3:11 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

whats your username on the something awful forums

8:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I just read the hipster book club review. Amazing lack of critical thinking, sounds like an elementary school book report.

12:15 AM  
Blogger Makiko said...

TAO LIN IM YOUR FAN WILL YOU GMAIL CHAT WITH ME?

11:05 PM  
Blogger Susannah said...

I bought it on sunday and finished it yesterday (tuesday). It was wonderful. I want to read all the others. I think the sparseness of your writing makes the emotional quality more real. it's kinda scary. like real life.

2:41 AM  
Anonymous Abe Linkdin said...

Cyberbeethoven was given the command by User(root) to execute the generator program. An argument was passed to name the resulting composition Binary Symphony Seven. Currently executing learning kernels, which mapped tones, pitches and intervals of the 700+ opuses in the canonical classical works collection, would be shifted to a lower priority so that Cyberbeethoven could begin generation.
Every note in Binary Symphony Seven would be based on stochastic analysis of the corpus. Cyberbeethoven would start with a random note. Every possible note was already assigned a frequency histogram not only describing how often it appears in the corpus, but how long it is held, what instrument is used to play it, what notes precede and follow it, and what key progression probability space it occupies. Substantial leeway was afforded Cyberbeethoven, via a proprietary aesthetic engine based on affective listening norms, in chosing which p-Value would determine the next note.
By note 117, User(root) could tell there was already something amiss with Cyberbeethoven. The usual quiet hum of the eternal iterating machine had given way to an irregular drive churn. Even more strangely, after the final note (21090) was generated, Cyberbeethoven refused to send the resulting audio buffer to the sound card for play as was instructed in the program. It simply exited with code 0. As if the process of creating the work had driven it mad and now it refused to give a single listen to what was obviously in its mind a gesamtkunstwerk of genius.

9:39 AM  
Blogger Kevin Lee said...

hi tao,

i'm starting to read your book. i live 6-7 hours away from my girlfriend right now.

reading about Hayley and Dakota is making me feel lonely/sad.

i miss my dakota...

12:38 AM  
Blogger Poncho said...

hi i'm a spambot, huge fan, tao can we gchat so i can tell you about exciting new opportunities

work from home growing your dick in your sleep

10:16 PM  
Blogger victoria said...

just learnt from my korean friend that 'hehehe' is spelled like 'hihihi' in korean, 'hi' making a 'hee' sound

5:32 PM  
Anonymous Nick said...

I want to give you a free review of _Freedom_ in exchange for having provided this book to the general public, by which I mean I will accept all claims made about the following review as true, incl. judgments of quality, authorship claims, accusations of the reviewer's self-importance, whatever. Anyway, the review:

THERE ARE PEOPLE COPULATING IN AMERICA. ALSO, POLITICS.

Also, I read somewhere you have Taiwanese people in your family. Do you speak Chinese? Do you like the phrase 所谓?

3:09 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

when you write do you sit on a chair in front of a table usually? or what

1:41 PM  
Anonymous marshall said...

NYTimes book review.

"[...] Yates’s name appears both as a provocation — to showcase Lin’s quirky nature — and as an attempt at appropriation."

"Lin aspires to the emotionally devastating work that is Yates’s legacy."

"The novel’s voice is deliberately monotonous. Chats, e-mails, text messages, phone and in-person conversations — all are absorbed seamlessly into the body of Lin’s text, a smart way of portraying the world in which he’s come of age, where we’re connected all the time and, regardless of the device or medium, all forms of communication seem alike. But this perspective also betrays a blasé cynicism, one that takes distinctions and details for granted."

"[...] [H]e provides accurate, often filthy dispatches on what it is to be young and pushing against the world."

"In place of narrative momentum and escalating emotional complexity, the book offers passiveness and anomie."

"In attempting to explore boredom, Lin recreates boredom. In attempting to write about obsession, he embraces narcissism. If this was his goal, mission accomplished."

Damn. Are all book reviews in NY Times like this. I don't understand. Are those things true.

Tao Lin tried to write a book that contains no "rhetoric," I guess, but people find "rhetoric" in it anyway. If this book is a "failure" because of this, will Tao try to write a book that is somehow even less "rhetorical." Will he publish a book that is like the letter "a" repeated 250 thousand times. Will someone write a review saying that it would have been better if there were some "b"s in it towards the end. Will someone write a review saying that Tao is trying to "express the alienation" inherent in human beings born in post-industrial countries after the year 1980. Will someone say that the choice of Times New Roman is "gimmicky."

8:33 PM  
Anonymous marshall said...

Does anyone know anyone who lives in Omaha, Nebraska who would be friends with me? I am a chill blog bro. I am 22 years old and have a college degree. You can email me at marshall.mallicoat@gmail.com. If you don't live in Omaha but would like to email me, you can.

9:30 PM  
Anonymous Rich Baiocco said...

What does Charles Boch know about the accuracy of "what it is to be young and 'pushing' against the world"?

10:18 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

charles bach, yr ny times reviewer, has a pretty flash web page/advertisement, complete with terrible indie rock, for his book with the dope ed hardy-ish cover. you've got to take it to the next level, tao. i think yr market is similar to the arcade fire market and you can't hope to reach that market without a next-level, interactive web experience. there's got to be a baby don draper out there in brooklyn who'd like to stick his dick into the internet and cum globs of tao lin all over the face of charles boak's webpage.

10:39 AM  
Blogger Gregory Bem said...

Hey folks!

Last night I recorded Tao Lin's reading and Q and A in Seattle. Check it out!

http://penumbrae.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/tao-lin-reads-in-seattle/

1:57 PM  
Blogger dottie kee bones said...

thank you for posting that link, gregory.

i was sad i couldn't attend, but this helps me.

5:05 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm an old person; however, I really liked Richard Yates & just recieved the rest of your stuff. I read some of your poems from "you are a little bit happier . . ." aloud while drinking yesterday & the other drunk old people in the room enjoyed them. When you wrote "I think Hemingway said something like that if he wanted to cause a reader to feel something his technique would be to focus on an emotion he had felt before and discern the concrete elements that caused him to feel the specific emotion, and then write those concrete elements, so that the reader would hopefully feel a similar emotion." I think you were thinking of T.S. Eliot's "objective correlative."

2:29 PM  
Anonymous Pamela Pornel said...

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Anonymous James R. said...

i'm about halfway through this novel and i like it a lot. i gave him ~$20 or something, ~4-6 months before the novel came out cos he was broke at the time or requested money or something, i don't remember.

he said he'd personalize the novel in some way. he did. it was awesome i love it.

he seems to me, like some other people say in so many words that he is ambitious and self-promotes a lot online and is infectious.

i love it / him / i also bought SFAA from him and i love it. it was a galley and he put upside down christian crosses with googly{?) eyes.

it was awesome. i love it. i love him on twitter. people who 'hate on him' or w/e seem to me to be ignorant / they lack respect or w/e.

10:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

oh sweet novel dude

9:47 PM  
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Anonymous DooneysCafe said...

Dooney's Cafe is an icon on Toronto's Bloor Street. It's also the name of an Internet site hosted by a group of Canadian writers, publishers, and artists.

Tao Lin came to Toronto recently, and the site published a review of Richard Yates.

9:43 AM  
Blogger gustavo.rivera said...

why did my review of ry never get promoed? i feel left out from the mass...you adding to my existential suffering by not including my review of ry with all the other reviews of ry...

4:04 PM  
Blogger boros1124 said...

Richard Yates writes good books. The "Revolutionary Road" was a very good book. I love this book. I love this book. I recommend to everyone.
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2:17 AM  
Blogger PONS Idiomas said...

Hola, quizás os interese saber que tenemos una colección que incluye el relato 'Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired' de Richard Yates en versión original conjuntamente con el relato 'A Small, Good Thing' de Raymond Carver.

El formato de esta colección es innovador porque permite leer directamente la obra en inglés sin necesidad de usar el diccionario al integrarse un glosario en cada página.

Tenéis más info de este relato y de la colección Read&Listen en http://bit.ly/ndSymF

5:14 AM  
Blogger Eli said...

one time i read part of 'revolutionary road' but i had to stop because it felt like my brain was imploding and the only way to stop the imploding was to somehow shit cauliflower out of my brain. 'revolutionary road' is proof that i will be completely useless until my brain can shit out cauliflower. i am practicing daily.

1:26 AM  

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