tao lin
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You Caught Me
Tao Lin’s characters are constantly connected, yet physically detached. The technology they live and breathe often seems less mechanical than its users.
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
The book blogs are full of awesome this week. You should read them. How to write to an editor: “I have given your request for evidence 23 hours of thought, the proper number of hours to come up with the…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
This week, Rumpus Books reviewed three novels and a collection of poems. Come read!
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Did You Miss?
It’s been a fascinating couple of weeks here at The Rumpus. Here’s a taste of what you might have missed. Join the conversation at The Blurb#10, especially if you’re a writer, or worse, an employer of writers. Sheera Talpaz makes…
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The Surface of Things: The Rumpus Long Interview with Tao Lin
The characters in Tao Lin’s work drink smoothies, use g-chat and steal, all with equal gravity, or lack thereof.
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Thurston Moore’s Audience: A Subjective Account of the Brooklyn Book Festival
September 13, 2009 10:37am – Walking by Book Stands Tao Lin T-shirts were dangling on hangers at the Melville House booth at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The T-shirts said “Tao Lin: 1983- ????” Across from Melville House was the Ugly…
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Gigantic Goes Live
Gigantic, A Magazine of Short Prose and Art just launched its online version with chapter 18 of Shya Scanlon’s Forecast 42 Project, new fiction from J.A. Tyler, and art by Thomas Doyle. The online journal also houses Joe Wenderoth’s Seizure…
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Don’t Miss the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival: Sunday September 13
Reasons to attend the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival: 1) it’s one of the most hip, smart and diverse American literary events, 2) because Ben Marcus, Sarah Manguso, Thurston Moore, Heidi Julavits and Tao Lin are just some of the stars…
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The Last Book I Loved: Hunts In Dreams
In the end, Hunts In Dreams is not a particularly deep book. But it’s rich, strange, comforting and sad all at once.
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The Last Book I Loved: Honored Guest
One of my favorite books is the story-collection Honored Guest (2004) by Joy Williams.
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The Brandon Book Crisis
First Dan Baum’s Twitter missives and now this: The Brandon Book Crisis, a paperback “thriller” about book design featuring 140+ pages of unedited Gmail chats, text messages, voicemails, and emails between Brandon Scott Gorrell, Tao Lin, and others.