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)

16 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

beautiful

5:20 PM  
Blogger che said...

nice

3:44 AM  
Blogger Michael Stein said...

I humbly disagree - http://literalab.com/post/4819929686/does-the-novel-have-a-future-yes-and-it-has-a-past

4:02 PM  
Blogger PHC said...

I like how The Book of Disquiet 'makes a beeline' for Richard Yates.

6:03 PM  
Anonymous Harland Sanders said...

hey tao

do you know anything about how you are perceived in norway or serbia?

5:02 AM  
Anonymous marshall said...

lol @harland

11:55 AM  
Anonymous Robert said...

Refreshingly, you and I have a lot in common.

8:48 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

@anonymous sweet
@che sweet
@michael sweet
@phc sweet
@harland the serbian publisher of 'eeeee eee eeee' likes me, i think, i've emailed with him ~10-20 times; the norwegian publisher seems to like me, because they decided to publish 'sfaa' in norway; i haven't heard from the public except ~2-6 facebook messages from either country, i think
@robert sweet

3:07 AM  
Blogger Jordan Castro said...

good job

8:36 PM  
Blogger Rachel said...

I think that you are the reason why "kmart realism" is listed on Urban Dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kmart%20realism

That's kind of a feat :)

11:32 AM  
Blogger david fishkind said...

good interview with jacket2... looked for a place to comment on it but...







good job sounds good

10:46 PM  
Blogger Victoria Trott said...

now that david brought it up

interviewer's voice is like a pastiche that includes barack obama's voice

12:53 AM  
Blogger Jorge Díaz said...

that´s nice :)

but

what about "spanish" writters?

any of Cortázar or Lezama Lima?

or others?

mmm

10:13 PM  
Blogger Kimberly Lambright said...

I'm trying really, really hard to understand this

3:46 PM  
Blogger Diane said...

brilliant

11:18 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

@jordan sweet
@rachel sweet
@david sweet, someone on twitter i think said something like that they now have an interview they can link to to easily show why they think i'm bad
@victoria pastiche, interesting
@jorge i think donald barthelme is 20% spanish
@kimberly sweet
@diane sweet

5:26 AM  

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