/lit/ - Literature

Mods discriminating against /lit/ celebrity Tao Lin, it's 2023 guys could we please #StopAsianHate already?

Let's discuss him, he was recently featured on a famous podcast with two badass women!

zoomer here. what modern thinkers should i be reading and listening too?

>2022
>forgotten once again
why cant he stay relevant?

>>20826269
>But /lit/ has people who actually read

>>20718439
obsessed

>>20543646
We shall create a new way of living, far from wifi and toothpaste abrasives. Join me.

"hey, /lit/, remember me?!"

>>20049522
>And so we come to the terminus of gravity's rainbow... that's my queue! Bon voyage! I'll see you guys next time... and just between you and me, I heard it through the grape'vine' that my next novel is going to a graveyard smash.
Jesus christ and just when I thought it couldn't get any worse,
>O, I was working at the lab late one night,
>When my eyes beheld an eerie sight!
>For my monster from his slab began to rise,
>And suddenly to my surprise...
>He did the monster mash!
>(The monster mash) It was a graveyard smash!
>(He did the mash) It caught on in a flash,
>(He did the mash) He did the monster mash!
Is this the original rick roll or something? Why would he do this?

>>19542990
when i say
>not know what to honestly say in any given situation
i don't mean i'm socially inept i mean that some people's thoughts and feelings, body and mind seem to have direct lines to each other like world leaders do, but for me it's all fraudulent like good ole neon

>>18771539
>>18771802
glad to see there are still a few taochads around. kinda crazy to think that /lit/'s biggest meme is putting out a new novel after eight years and there's only one thread up, in need of the occasional bump. how far we've fallen bros

>>18008618
its the little things anon. thank you for being the kind of person to say when pleasure was had, it brought me pleasure (cant believe i got reverse brainwashed twice in one post!)

How am I supposed to answer these questions? It asks, "you prefer to completely finish one project before starting another." What if I think I *prefer* this, but this is not even remotely how I operate? Do I *actually* prefer it if I don't behave like this? Are my actions more indicative of who I am? Or are my personal preferences? I feel like the answer is obvious, but in that case I'll be answering the secret intent of question wrong...

http://columbiajournal.org/mending-by-tao-lin/?fbclid=IwAR01j2EjDpphLhk5D8rsnZPlnQMUKjyFhK1se0ZtCX5AIHSEa_191mBGZKY

Mending by Tao Lin
Tao LinFebruary 1, 2021
Bizarre, long-term disorders
can be harvested in people
I had three, four, or five
sleep disorders
Wandering through
forests of biases
to reach meadows
of relative objectivity
I grew a moustache
and went to Chile
Sea creatures collapsed
into brief poems
and double helixes
Gratitude and bamboo
and colored pencils
and extraterrestrials
seemed important
Taping my mouth shut
and listening to bamboo
made time feel like home
Home is where stories begin
Disempowering thoughts occur
and I start turning against people
like in some strange dream
I ate too much breadfruit
yesterday and today
Soon I will try to think
of reasons to summon
highly intelligent aliens
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Discuss

>>17169020
boring and he started writing it in the 20th century and it takes place in the 20th century

>>15999098
Take every opportunity for exposure

>brexit

Racism and sexism are relative and constantly in flux. There will always be people more or less racist/sexist than you, and people’s prejudices are changing all the time. So being self-righteous about it seems irrational and unhelpful.

Though if love was an animal, Garret knew, it would probably be the Loch Ness Monster. If it didn't exist, that didn't matter. People made models of it, put it in the water, and took photos. The hoax of it was good enough. The idea of it. Though some people feared it, wished it would just go away, had their lives insured against being eaten alive by it.

*grins*

Can this double as the Tao Lin reading group?

>>11406337
>forgetting about /lit/s favourite asian american meme writer

Tao Lin

His upcoming book Leave Society will also be a game changer for literature