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What do you think of this gentleman "Tao Lin", /lit/?

Is his stuff worth reading?

>> No.4202054

he is ,by far ,the best contemporary author

>> No.4202056

He's like a modern Bret Easton Ellis. Okay.

>> No.4202061

>>4202043
Best writer of the last 50 years.

>> No.4202088

>>4202054
>>4202056
>>4202061
Interesting.

what do most people consider his best work?

I've read a few of him poems and I liked them

>> No.4202092

>>4202088

I just read his posts on /lit/. They're artful.

>> No.4202095

I'm tao lin

>> No.4202101

>>4202043
Can't think of a living author I'd rather read. He's an internet age Schopenhauerian.

>> No.4202107

>>4202092
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/mar/27/tao-lin/

>"They take images and write stuff on it. There's an image of me and my dad and it says, like, some stereotypical Asian thing about a dad being disappointed in his son. I like that one."

Anyone got this image? I wanna see it

>> No.4202121

>>4202095
I am Spartacus.

>> No.4202125

>>4202101
>>4202061
>>4202054

What are you niggas crazy

>> No.4202137

>>4202125
Which works have you read by him? He's really rather good.

>> No.4202147

>>4202137

Taipei, it was really dreadful and not thought provoking in the least.

>> No.4202244

I think he's fucking hot.

>> No.4202251

my favourite work of his: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZtEUST-p5w

>> No.4203428

ITT: talentless hacks

>> No.4203466
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>>4202043

>> No.4203492

search the archives for my thoughts on his writing, im not typing everything up again for the hundredth time

its worth reading. taipei is his best.

>> No.4203505

http://vimeo.com/67411231
start at 2:10
speaking of which, why does everybody act like marie calloway is some revolutionary indie goddess when really she's fat and has a speech impediment

>> No.4203521

>>4202251
Fucking lol.

>> No.4203579

When did all these alt lit fags come in here?

>> No.4204314

I've heard better stuff at poetry slams.

>> No.4204318

>>4202043
I read your stuff Tao, and no, I didn't rike it.

>> No.4204322

I thought Taipei was pretty good.