/lit/ - Literature

it wasn't me Tao

I swear

>>4306078

Most probably you, go away.

I lol'd. It rolls off the tongue really well.

>Lin has developed a large following on the internet, and has become infamous on 4chan's /lit/ board, where the popular may-may 'Go to bed, Tao' came about as the result of a spurious rumor that Lin was self-promoting lousy prose on the site[48]. The denizens of /lit/ jokingly refer to Lin as the 'Kafka of the Internet'[49] and humorously refer the author as the 'voice of a generation'[50]. In tribute to his fans, Tao Lin briefly "had an idea to title it [his latest novel] 4chan"[51], before deciding on Taipei. He has denied claims that he suffers from autism.

>Occupation: Novelist, poet, autist

>Taipei is a love story, and although it’s Lin’s third novel it’s also, in a sense, a classic first novel: it’s semi-autobiographical (Lin has described it as the distillation of 25,000 pages of autism)

Oh fuck, I haven't laughed that hard in at least a month.

>The same article said "there's something unusual about a writer being so autistic, so ready to tell you every insignificant detail of a seemingly eventful day, so aware of his next novel's word count, yet also remaining so opaque, mysterious..."

epik :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Lin#Taipei_.282013.29

top kek

>>4306078
what the fuck are you doing lurking his wikipedia page?

Why is a Chinese man Japanese?

>>4306617
it's hilarious at the moment, check it out

>On June 18, writing for The Daily Beast, critic Emily Witt said in a highly positive review:
>Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...

>>4306622
>asians are different

>Taipei is a love story, and although it’s Lin’s third novel it’s also, in a sense, a classic first novel: it’s semi-autobiographical (Lin has described it as the distillation of 25,000 pages of autism)

you go, /lit/. you go.

>>4306637
That whole bit is wonderful.

>>4306461
>they cited source
Ok this was amusing.

>>4306622
why is a chinese japanese man brazilian?

>>4306644
Go to bet Bag.

Apparently he's dead...

>Lin's writing has attracted both negative and positive attention from various publications. Gawker once referred to him as "maybe perhaps the single most irritating person we've ever had to deal with",[14] though he was later "pardoned".[15] After the "pardon", Gawker published a piece Lin had written.[16] L Magazine said, "We've long been deeply irked by Lin's vacuous posturing and 'I know you are but what am I' dorm-room philosophizing..."