/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11131382]

how do i become the next tao lin. i wanna market the alt-lit scene to the gen-z kids who never heard of him.

[Anonymous No.11131413]

Nice try, Tao. Okay... I will buy your new book. You're so transparent.

[Anonymous No.11132250]

>>11131382
I actually thought about this quite a lot myself, because it seems like the gen z kids are either only into YA genre fiction etc or not into books/literature at all, which is definitely untrue, but we'll have to wait since the oldest of gen z are only starting uni.

maybe some anon doing an undergrad in english lit or mfa can chime in.

[Anonymous No.11132260]

>>11131382
Can someone explain this tao lin guy to me? did he browse /lit/ or something?

[Anonymous No.11132299]

>>11132250
I'm 19 if that counts.
Tao Lin is a faggot and I don't read books written by chinks. Literature has of course been passed over for electronic mediums by many my age, but they are the sort who most likely wouldn't be able to read at all if they were born a hundred or two years ago. Chicks will continue to read YA and Jane Austen until the end of time. Appreciation of literature will live on for as long as the written word remains, continued by the small subset of the population with the ability and inclination to understand it. I'd do a literature degree if I weren't crippled with anxiety and indecision over the future at the moment.

[Anonymous No.11132309]

>>11132299
Woah so redpilled

[Anonymous No.11132331]

>>11132309
The next Hitler will be gen Z. Your time will come jew.

[Anonymous No.11132351]

>>11132299
underage faggot get out

[Anonymous No.11132353]

>>11132299
>I don't read books written by chinks
fuck off back to pol

[Anonymous No.11132472]

>>11132260
he's a (really good actually) author who everyone identifies with the "alt lit scene" of the 2000s. he tried really hard to market himself as a cool outsider before 2010, but since then, has (for the most part) mostly kept to himself and changed his focus and lifestyle. his new book, trip, is legitimately very good

He used to be active on /lit/, and he probably still is

[Anonymous No.11132497]

>>11132472
I'm actually a fan of Tao (own all his books and have read most of them multiple times) but didn't like Trip. What did you like about it? I think I'll like "Leave Society" a lot more. I hope he sticks with that title by the way. I was really disappointed when he decided to change "Beyond Existentialism" to "Trip".

[Anonymous No.11132936]

>>11132497
not that guy but
I'm definitely more interested in leave society than trip, although I haven't read trip yet. But Bed and Taipei were excellent imo

[Anonymous No.11133034]

>>11132331
>literally sucking on redditor dick this hard

Genuinely hang yourself.

[Anonymous No.11133067]

>>11132936
Bed and Taipei are my least favorites lol. But I liked Taipei the first time I read it. The two books of his that I love are Richard Yates and Shoplifting From American Apparel.

[Anonymous No.11133153]

>>11132299
>>11132331
I like your attitude, anon. I wish the information about jews was available when I was 19.

[Anonymous No.11133285]

>>11131382
Young people still read Tao Lin though

[Anonymous No.11134313]

Hilarious Tao Lin parody:

@Tao_Lame

[Anonymous No.11134318]

Tao LIn is a tick on the flea of literature

[Anonymous No.11134328]

Tao Lame says Tao Lin's latest book is great:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R19N1TAYDVTKG2/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1101974516

[Anonymous No.11134338]

Honestly, I do think there's an interesting book to be written about a generation of disaffected people aimlessly browsing social media/internet without purpose whilst abusing pharmaceuticals or pain killers. Tapei is probably the closest novel to touch on this and could have earned a serious reputation if the book wasn't packaged in the author's conceits.

[Anonymous No.11134346]

>>11132497

I think the original title was 'More Drug Crap for You Dumb Pieces of Shit'

[Anonymous No.11134350]

Best explanation of Tao Lin ever written:

http://takimag.com/article/tao_lin_who_needs_libel_ann_sterzinger/print#axzz5Dd314BAb

[Anonymous No.11134389]

Tao Lin is less a writer than he is a performance artist and Whole Foods shopper, I feel

[Anonymous No.11134431]

>>11132260
He mentions /lit/ in Taipei

[Anonymous No.11134444]

>>11132260
He's the Clairo of literature

[Anonymous No.11134447]

>>11134313
It's actually just Tao's comedy account

[Anonymous No.11134498]

>>11134447
Do you really believe Tao Lin would make fun of his parents like that? And that he has a deceased, sex-addicted uncle named 'Dao'?

Tao Lin said at taolin.info that it's Mira Gonzales, then added: 'jk, I don't know who it is.'

[Anonymous No.11134636]

>>11133067
How come you didn't like Bed? I consider some stories in there as one of my all time favorites and re read them time to time.

Whereas I'm going through shoplifting right now but still can't seem to get into it as much as taipei.

[Anonymous No.11135215]

write 8 books

[Anonymous No.11136877]

>>11132299

[Anonymous No.11136898]

>>11134498
Yes he would

[Anonymous No.11136915]

i am 19 and i read karl marx everyday

[Anonymous No.11136981]

>>11131382
>market the alt-lit scene to the gen-z kids

And you think these "markets" are introduced new products through mass exposure? Oh man, the truth is so anti the sentiments of your work that the whole operation is itself something I'd love to be a part of just for the dissonance and absurdity. It's so hypocritical, the works can never recover from their introduction into the market. Hahaha. Oh the form, the form, man, hahaha, oh the form.
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If Tao actually got to reading some Mexicans and figured out this new writing paradigm, he probably have himself a good day making some new plans for interjecting meaning into the all-meaningful mightiness like a Russian state sponsored public service announcement that helps people get ripped and flourish like Texmex stem majors bordering on insanity and mutually assured construction.
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Individual, wants me to buy a book. Ok, but where to buy this book. Do I check you out, or do you arrive everywhere and inundate me, and does this dissemination result in certain meaning patterns, do we quilt the cottage industry into known and stumbled upon one evening when I was going for a walk alone down a path which used to be some train tracks back in the 20's, broken laudanum bottles cast everywhere certainly glistening in the sun like value unapreciated exc3pt for a moments notice by a stranger who is searching for a glint of something like the crow, scavenger swooping down, pick-pick, no-good, ack, ack, ack...where the cottage industry builds it's need for black plastic is in young men's need for validation, reach to this plate to hold for father a cellphone, a nude child runs past with a look that is without shame, at least that is what it must be if you cannot know what that nothing means to them, that other you cannot be, ether shamed or unashamed without or with needing all this dancing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBsKplb2E6Q

[Tao Lame No.11136999]

>>11136898

Then he lied when he said he didn't know who it is?

Look, I write those tweets, and I can assure you I'm not him.

And if you think Tao Lin would write joke tweets about his dad's federal prison term, then you don't know your Asian-American idol.

[Anonymous No.11137033]

>>11136999
He jokes as a way to cope with it. The last thing he wants is to be insecure about it.

[Anonymous No.11137113]

>>11136981
what did he mean by this

[Anonymous No.11137118]

>>11137033

And he also copes with his love for his parents by making fun of their English texts?

You don't make any sense.

Plus, he stated on his site that he didn't know who Tao Lame is.

He's a lot of bad things, including being a shitty writer, and you've added public 'liar.'

[Tao Lame No.11137189]

>>11137033

If that was Tao Lin, then I think I'd have more than 319 followers after 5 years.

Plus, who's the only person I follow on Twitter, Vincent Chu?

Who do you think he is?

[Anonymous No.11137201]

Anybody here going to his Powell’s event next week?

[Anonymous No.11137204]

>>11137189
If you really are the person who runs that Tao Lin account you have a really weak sense of humor. Kill yourself. I don't even like Tao but you're shit.

[Tao Lame No.11137272]

>>1 1137204
Thx, Tao

[t No.11137297]

Lol

If he has 'a really weak sense of humor,' then why did Tao Lin at first say the account was operated by the hilarious Mira Gonzalez, who co-wrote a book with him, 'Selected Tweets'?

You're stepping on your mind all over the place.

[Anonymous No.11137475]

>>11137204

Lol

But you said 'it's actually just Tao's comedy account.'

[Anonymous No.11138247]

Ppl who call Tao Lin 'a genius,' make me wonder abt their definition of 'average'

[Anonymous No.11138288]

I see Tao Lin as a less-violent, slightly more talented Cho What's-his-name, the mass killer from Virginia Tech. Instead of killing you with bullets, Tao Lin kills you with his terrifically shitty prose.

[Anonymous No.11139307]

Hello, Vince

Yeah, ask him why he stole this writer's cover for 'Taipei.'

Here's the backstory.

The author of this novel:


https://www.amazon.com/Huckleberry-Milton-Mr-Bradley-J/dp/1463601409/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1525489519&sr=1-1&dpID=51BMpxspzUL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=detail


wrote Tao Lin to ask if he'd write a blurb for it.

Tao Lin declined.

Then 'Taipei' appears, and it looks like this:


https://www.amazon.com/Taipei-Vintage-Contemporaries-Tao-Lin/dp/0307950174/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525489672&sr=1-1&keywords=taipei+tao+lin&dpID=51P92xL4aNL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch
What people should is this:

Buy that other guy's book and ask Tao Lin to sign the cover.