/lit/ - Literature

dude drugs lmao

>Jon Lindsey: I based a lot of the mom character in Body High on my own mom, so those sections were awful to write. Tao Lin told me they were his favorite parts of the book
>Tao Lin told me they were his favorite parts of the book
OOOOOOOoooooh shit! Lindsey just name dropped one of his friends who is also published. This shows we really ought to pay attention to him, after all writers who exist within literary bubbles are always the most interesting story tellers.

>>10920567
i'm reading 2 books at the moment and listening to another book on audio through librovox. also sometimes i browse classic essays or classic nonfiction and skim them when i'm stoned like i am now tehe

sitting on my couch, listening to claptone
cat is missing. i think he is asleep.
the wind outside blowing in the darkness
what would the stream of consciousness of an unconscious being
look like?

writing nerd poetry by day, posting on 4chan by night
i am the karl ove knausgaard of the post millenial generation
i am the reaper, the keeper, the brand new sensation

tai pei

tao lin thread? he seems to be really, really into drugs now and is soon to be publishing a non-fiction work on terence mckenna. compared to how venomous the rest of the world is right now, he seems like a charming fool and i wish him the best.

maybe he'll be better at nonfiction than fiction, as he seems like he would be very meticulous. the fact that supposedly he pulled a wake-and-bake every day while writing it might not bode well, though.

also i stalked his soundcloud and found a bunch of random audio recordings he made of his day: https://soundcloud.com/taolin/20170419-184756

>>9760384
I think I know what you're trying to say here with Vonnegut, but he's fine for a certain kind of person. When you're a sophomore white guy at an engineering school say. Nothing wrong with that time of your life.

And it's no wonder people identify with him. Kurt Vonnegut as a person, not so much his stories, is a desirable character for the well to do. Does that necessarily mean he is a *better* writer compared to anyone else out there, not really. Probably had plenty of equals in his time that went unnoticed.

That said I have a picture of Vonnegut hanging in my apartment, no joke. You could argue that I am as cast under this spell of culture as anyone else. But also I think his stories are funny, particularly Harrison Bergeron.

What is he doing?

What books deal with themes relating to losing an erection?

Can you guys believe it?

>For his outstanding use of language and beautifully crafted description of worlds, people and humanity, Tao Lin wins the 2016 Nobel Price for literature
Post yfw this happens

Can you write in the style of Tao Lin?

What are your opinions on literature?

Any literature that is like a philosophical mindfuck? I'm looking for something that would make me feel schizophrenic.

>He ate the last of the eggs and wiped the plate with the tortilla and ate the tortilla and drank the last of the coffee and wiped his mouth and looked up and thanked her.

Does anyone else agree that literature is dead?

>>7503661
>>7503657

Merry Christmas, anons. Have this image of Tao Lin.

> the book can't be spoiled

>>7368548
>White: I'm white and bored and I take a lot of drugs

is it weird that i actually like the design of his website

>Dostoevsky, Fyodor. A prophet, a clap-trap journalist and a slap-dash comedian. No one takes his reactionary journalism seriously.

Do you agree with our boy Tao?

Is he the best thing to come out of /lit/?

CIA handed the man a briefcase.
"Dr. Pavel, I'm CIA," said CIA
"He wasn't alone," said the man.
"Uh, you don't get to bring friends," said CIA.
"They are not my friends," said Dr. Pavel.
CIA looked at Dr. Pavel then he looked at the man.
"Don't worry, no choice for them," said the man.
Another man brought three other men with black bags over their heads out of the car.
"And why would I want them?" said CIA.
"They were trying to grab your prize," said the man.
CIA shrugged.
"They work for the mercenary, the masked man," said the man.
CIA looked at the man with a neutral facial expression for 5 seconds.
"Bane?" said CIA.
The man looked at CIA with a neutral facial expression. CIA turned around.
"Get them on board, I'll call it in," said CIA.
They all sat on the plane as it flew through the air past a cliff. Doctor Pavel buckled his seatbelt.
"The flight plan I just filed with the agency lists me, my men, Dr. Pavel here, but only one of you," said CIA.
CIA took his gun out of his holster. CIA pointed his gun toward the door of the airplane. One of CIA's men opened the door of the aircraft.
"First one to talk gets to stay on my aircraft," said CIA.
CIA pointed his gun at the door of the aircraft. One of CIA's men pulled one of the men with black masks to the door of the aircraft. One of CIA's men hung one of the men with black masks out of the door of the aircraft. The man with the black mask who was hanging out of the door of the aircraft felt his heart beating faster than it was the last time he noticed his heart beating.
"Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?" said CIA.
The man with the black mask who was hanging out of the door of the aircraft imagined himself as a small, red dot moving through a three dimensional graph that included himself, CIA, CIA's men, Dr. Pavel, the aircraft, the country they were in as individual points that were slowly, perceptibly gaining increasingly large amounts of distance between each other. CIA fired his gun out of the door of the aircraft.
"He didn't fly so good. Who wants to try next?" said CIA.
One of CIA's men moved the man whose head was hanging out of the door of the aircraft into the aircraft. One of CIA's men another man with a black mask to the door of the aircraft.

Will write more by request. I started with old style Tao then integrated some new Tao.

Is his career kill?