/lit/ - Literature

A turn of events has lead me to have dinner tonight with Tao Lin. What questions should I ask him?

so what's tao lin doing during these trying times?

>>10507127
you should

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2BJSV8Q1Yw

what the FUCK is his problem?

Do drugs and write about your daily life.

>>10001090
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>>9600009
Every generation needs a Tao Lin. He's the Hemingway and Kerouac of the Millennial generation, a kind of record keeper. We won't have a new Faulkner or Joyce, so to speak, until someone with writing abilities get over their muh nihilism and depicts the Internet generation with the same reverence those guys did to their eras.

>>9601075
Definitely one of the best contemporary authors, but see >>9602651 Not timeless enough.

>>9214494

Nietzsche has pointed out that his "Untimely Ones", the "Unzeitgemäßen Betrachtungen", his second work, though, as he has claimed, it preceded The Birth of Tragedy and can as such be read as his original work, that these reflections on culture, history and philosophy, are the best introduction to his work. He stated that people should read this work, before tackling his others, as to see whether his words and ideas created a deep resonance or not. It is, with Zarathustra, his work that is written with the greatest pathos and unlike Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche held them in high esteem until the very end of his life. Academia and the literary circles seem to ignore this work, but i encourage everyone who is interested in Nietzsche to start with this work.


"Ich sehe etwas Höheres und Meschlicheres über mir, als ich selber bin, helft mir alle, es zu erreichen, wie ich jedem helfen will, der Gleiches erkennt und am gleichen leidet: damit endlich wieder der Mensch entstehe, welcher sich voll und unendlich fühlt im Erkennen und Lieben, im Schauen und Können, und mit aller seiner Ganzheit an und in der Natur hängt, als Richter und Werthmesser der Dinge."

>>8812608
Tao Lin is the only published author to eve browse /lit/. So I suspect, for better or worse, we're stuck with him being /ourguy/.

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>>8685188
Of course.

I'm not looking so bad now hun guys. G-guys?

Tao Lin

>>8372428
i think this is probably true.

>>8367717
I do

>>8329705
fuck off normie.

your all retards

who /tao/ here?

i'm almost done with his novels. are his poetry and short story collections 'worth it?'

Was it autism?

>it's a Pynchon's autistic asian druggie nephew drags Dave and Tom along on a drug fueled adventure through the streets of New York. Only to end with Dave having an anxiety attack and getting arrested. *zooming out camera shot of Dave in cuffs getting put in a cruiser while Tao and Tom run away

featured Tao himself