/lit/ - Literature

Any good books to start with Lin? My professor highly recommends his work, and I've seen many reviews hailing him as *the* voice of the contemporary generation.

go to bed tao

>>7041781
>hailing him as *the* voice of the contemporary generation.
it seems as though everyone and their mother is being labeled as the voice of this generation.

>>7041781
I've read shoplifting and it was dog shit.

Tao and I have a mutual friend (his former neighbor) and said mutual friend talks lots of shit about him whenever I bring him up. Apparently Tao's a huge asshole.

>>7041781
Official Tao Lin power rankings:
Bed
Taipei
EEEE EEE EEEEE

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this emotion was a little ebook
Richard Yates
Shoplifting from American Apparel

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>>7041761
Fuck off, Tao.

>>7041761

>>7041868
Well what make him an asshole?

I don't tolerate drug-users let alone drug-using minorities.

He probably would have tried to rape me.

>>7041761
No, I suspect Tao doesn't like dudebro rugby player STEM students too much so we probably wouldn't be great friends. In my experience people on the kinds of medications he takes are only interesting on occasion and make terrible friends because surprise they're fucking crazy.

>>7041781
>strung-out Asian guy from New York represents me
As a white guy from the rural south, that seems unlikely.

By any chance does anyone have the Tao Lin copypasta, the one where he sperges out in a grocery store.

>>7041945
I saw Tao Lin at a grocery store in Brooklyn yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

>>7041761
For one second I thought it was Terrence Tao.

>>7041956
For some reason I always thought this was inspired from a sence in a Simpson episode, but I can't remember which one. It's very Simpsonesque anyway.

>>7041956
That's the one. Thanks.

>>7041956
I once changed this copypasta to be Pynchon in Raven Used Books and sent it to my friend who'd just finished reading Mason & Dixon. Dude lost his shit, thinking it was for real.

I came into this video expecting to be annoyed, especially after the soft acoustic guitar started playing, but I was pleasantly surprised. I don't like Tao Lin's literature very much but he seems like a nice guy who doesn't take himself too seriously. I'm always interested in the creative process and this video gave a good snapshot of what he was thinking when he wrote his stories

>>7042006
>this picture is actually how rednecks see themselves
okay scum

>>7041761
I would have bullied him in high school

>>7042012
pretty interesting series

this one is a qt too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou9u5zeR5-s

too bad she does comic books

Obv

>>7041936
You basically just outed yourself as a boring, flacid shell of a person

>>7041956
>huh
I'm pretty sure he has a reading where he repeats 'and we ate it again' for like 3 minutes
You could've fit that into your story better

Tao Lin seems to have this very special mixture of being an amusing jerk as well as a very chill and introvert dude.

>>7041761
I probably would have told him he is a phony tbh fam

>>7042022
How out of touch do you have to be to not believe there are attractive but unambitious and intellectually lukewarm people who don't look like Bubba from the trailer park and happen to live in the country?

>>7042063
>You basically just outed yourself as a boring, flacid shell of a person
Because I don't think Tao would take a shine to me? Because I majored in a non-humanities field while also taking courses in literature, analytic philosophy and art in college? Because I played ruby and you're insecure about being out of shape and afraid of physical confrontation, one of the most sublime events the average man can experience? You sound narrow-minded, tbh.

The quote, "and then we ate whale," btw.

>>7042233
>calling yourself a dudebro
>upset when people think you're a shallow cunt

Why?

>>7042274
>what is self-deprecation?
We're on a board where people regularly call themselves autistic for enjoying certain things. Catch up, please.

>>7042233
No, because you actually refered to yourself as a dudebro, which speaks volumes (incuding the fact that you aren't one) and you think the rural south has any part in the contemporary generation

Also future CFA who's fought more than you or your friends put together (that shit about competition was your words not mine)

Anyway

>>7042233
>Because I don't think Tao would take a shine to me? Because I majored in a non-humanities field while also taking courses in literature, analytic philosophy and art in college? Because I played ruby and you're insecure about being out of shape and afraid of physical confrontation, one of the most sublime events the average man can experience?

My roommate plays rugby and he is a fat fuck pseudo who is afraid of squats and idolizes Zizek.

I'm from the rural South as well and you sound like atrocious company.

>>7042378
Yup, nobody's from the rural south and it has absolutely not influence on the direction of the country. The G.O.P. "moral majority" isn't real and nobody thinks about them.

Dudebro's a tumblr slur but in case you haven't noticed, tumblr can't come up with anything that 4chan won't incorporate into itself without really changing.

Semi-pro MMA fighter from Florida might be the most white-trash thing (inb4 spic) I can possibly think of. Not that I don't think it's cool, but it's odd that you have so little regard for rednecks given what you've said about yourself.

>>7042450
I live in a loft in Oakland and I've never done MMA

>>7042504
What CFA were you referring to alongside fighting then? I thought you were talking about an MMA promotion one of my buddies used to fight with in Florida.

>>7042450
In the contemporary world being young white and has only flown over your states, republican anything is background noise or a thing to, casually or not so, hate on

>>7042509
Accounting cert

>>7042515
>implying I'm a republican
>implying I still live there
>implying I haven't wandered across 17 countries third-world countries
It doesn't matter how you feel about the kinds of people I grew up around. What matters is that they actually do exert enough political power that anyone seeking office in the states defines themselves either in solidarity with or opposition to that evangelical voting block because it's the largest vocal extreme. Most people, even in the south, aren't vocal extremists one way or another, but that's not who decides elections under our current system. Maybe try reading Crazy For God, or Up, Simba for an idea of why noisy, backwards people are an extremely important demographic.

>>7041761
>cutsy xylophone music playing in the background

awww lol

>>7041868
have you not read his books? of course he's an asshole. richard yates is literally all about him being an asshole to a mentally disturbed teenage girl