/lit/ - Literature

Yes

I met Tao Lin, he was really nice.

>>3864907

>DIS Magazine
>Frieze
>Rhizome

You're the first person I've ever known on here to mention anything like that. I actually worked at Frieze and interned for DIS a couple years ago...rhizome is pretty good as well

What are your thoughts on Taipei by Tao Lin so far?

What did you think of him mentioning /lit/?

>pic related

I'm about 80% through, but I'm not really enjoying it...

Thoughts?

> Paul cried the first day of preschool for around ten minutes after his mother, who was secretly watching and also crying, seemed to have left. It was their first time apart. Paul’s mother watched as the principal cajoled Paul into interacting with his classmates, among whom he was well liked and popular, if a bit shy and “disengaged, sometimes,” said one of the high school students who worked at the preschool, which was called the Discovery Center. Each day, after that, Paul cried less and transitioned more abruptly from crying to interacting with classmates, and by the middle of the second week he didn’t cry anymore. At home, where mostly only Mandarin was spoken, Paul was loud and either slug-like or, his mother would say in English, “hyperactive,” rarely walking to maneuver through the house, only crawling, rolling like a log, sprinting, hopping, or climbing across sofas, counters, tables, chairs, etc. in a game called “don’t touch the ground.” Whenever motionless and not asleep or sleepy, lying on carpet in sunlight, or in bed with eyes open, bristling with undirectionalized momentum, he would want to intensely sprint in all directions simultaneously, with one unit of striving, never stopping. He would blurrily anticipate this unimaginably worldward action, then burst off his bed to standing position, or make a loud noise and violently spasm, or jolt from the carpet into a sprint, flailing his arms, feeling always incompletely satisfied.

What do you guys think of Tao Lin's new book?

Any other young writers you love?

> Paul’s father was 28 and Paul’s mother was 24 when they alone (out of a combined fifteen to twenty-five siblings) left Taiwan for America. Paul was born in Virginia six years later, in 1983, when his brother was 7. Paul was 3 when the family moved to Apopka, a pastoral suburb near Orlando, Florida.

Why can't you get published?

This is one of the best works I've come across lately. You can read more at...

>http://books.google.com/books?id=bVJLPKjTUkIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

I think he is just a great artist.

I've noticed a lot of bad writers self-publish...but I know what you mean.

>>3592027

Agreed n_n

>>3574419

:(

Are you ready?

>>3340339

...nah

Yes

Anything by Virginia Woolf

>>3225036

Yeah, it's surprisingly good

>>3225016

But really I'm not Tao.

I agree, although Richard Yates is my favorite.

>>3225004

: (

I thought you guys had forgotten...

Thoughts on Banana Yoshimoto?

The Easter Parade by Richard Yates

I know this click.

Alex Bag, Tom Moody, etc...

Check out rhizome or artfagcity or something...