/lit/ - Literature

>>4487662
world domination is coming

Good morning.

>>3323904
Why don't you try reading Tao's work. 2real4u escapist fedorist.

>>3248995
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Dear /lit/,

What is your favourite Tao Lin work and why?

I'm reading Bed at the moment and it's the best I've read so far. I think his style really works for short stories, and Bed has a bit of rawness and shows a bit more of the characters than his later work. I like Shoplifting from American Apparel as well though, with it's concise prose and being a novella. Eeeee Eee Eeee was a nice read, but I found it a bit too all over the place and the surreal animal encounters, while entertaining, didn't really add a lot to the whole I think. Richard Yates is great for what it is, but sometimes felt as if dragging on. Even if that's the point, I like Lin better when he writes shorter stuff.

Bed really is amazing so far. Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues especially.

If hell exists, what’s the one book that they make you read over and over for all of eternity?

Tao Lin: Hm...maybe Finnegans Wake.

>>3179256
It's complex. It's part constructed but it isn't artificial. As a /lit/izen once said, being ironic is the only way he can be sincere. Tao Lin is the tragic hero and spokesman of our generation.

Tao Lin is actually a great author and deserves to be read.

>>3113493
Replace it with that of a child celebrity.

Contributing best Tao Lin picture ever.

>>2937846

>>2918165
>posting in a Tao Lin thread
>not recognising a Tao Lin imitation

>see enormous amounts of shit threads about Tao Lin
>decide to see what it is all about and ask if someone has an e-book
>kind anon shares Shoplifting From American Apparel and Richard Yates with me
>it seems Shoplifting is a novella, start with that, read it yesterday on a pleasant afternoon in the sun
>it's better than I thought

I've actually never read contemporary literature, but I think he nicely puts his finger on the morose awkwardness and paralysed indifference of modern young people. Which might make it a bit painful to read at times, but that seems like the point to me. So, why is he so hated? Is it solely the self-promotion and the aspergerian radiance?

And secondly, what other contemporary literature would you recommend? It doesn't necessarily have to be like Lin, in fact something different would be nice, but I would like to read more things that related to modern life.