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Remember when this shit was a meme and everyone decried the state of millennials? Now we have zoomers that aren’t even capable of reading a book. Funny how things change

>> No.14594310

>>14594277
Did Tao really shill his books here?

>> No.14594314

>He walked to a cafe near Type books and asked on one of the two threads on 4chan about him that, for some reason, had appeared the last two days -- and, with two to four hundred posts each, 90 to 95 percent derogatory, were the two longest threads on him that he'd ever seen -- if anyone in Toronto could sell him MDMA or mushrooms within two hours.

has anyone ever found this thread on the archives?

>> No.14594691

>>14594310
Tao is a life force of /lit/. You'll find some posters invoking or incanting Mr. Lin to aid them in various literary tasks.

>> No.14594707

>>14594310
If you were around a few years ago, Tao Lin threads were as everpresent as Guenon threads are now

>> No.14594710

>>14594277
I want to read Lin's "My Wife's Odors," as it's considered apocrypha to Taipei, but I can't find a digital copy.

>> No.14594720

>>14594310
Tao doesn't shill but he will go out of his way to support other writers. I think he posts the Megan Boyle threads, or at least is friendly with whoever does.

>> No.14594734

>>14594720
>>14594707
Tao doesn't give 1 fuck about /lit/

>> No.14594741

>>14594734
Tao, you're one complicated cookie

>> No.14594767

How did Tao manage to win over Michael Silverblatt?

>> No.14594820

>>14594767
Selected Tweets was actually a fairly clever idea

>> No.14594829

>>14594277
Is the book any good?

>> No.14594832

I went to a Tao Lin reading back in his heyday because it was free with student ID. There were a bunch of people outside saying shit like "you should really hear Tao Lin talk. He's the voice of a generation!"

When he got on stage and talked he recited a list of the books he'd written. When the audience asked him questions about his inspirations or favorite authors, his reply was always the same: "I don't know. I just like them."

>> No.14594845

>>14594832
Stop making it sound like he isn't legitimately funny

https://youtu.be/LhAOPhf9GkQ

>> No.14594910

Most literature written after 1980 is shit. Stick to the classics.

>> No.14595229
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>>14594910
Unless you want to read what your contemporaries write

>> No.14595243

>>14594734
Yeah, but Tao enjoys the marketing aspects of the writer's craft

>> No.14595277

>>14595229
Stop acting like Ezra Pound spent any time reading his contemporaries. He was reading the classics.

>> No.14595297

>>14595243
I wish I could go the way of Pynchon and just not participate at all in the marketing involved with being a writer

>> No.14595302

>>14595277
>Don't connect with anything
Hope you choke on a creampie, cuck

>> No.14595336

>>14595297
An inebriated Knopf agent told me Pynchon represents a secret society of many authors, his name being chosen, as Rowling's, to be the public face of the groups work

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>> No.14595380

>>14595302
So I successfully baited you

Now what

I'm new to this to 'trolling' business

>> No.14595500

>>14595336
Why would this be a thing?

>> No.14595503

>>14595297
Being an reclusive weirdo IS Pynchon's marketing anon

>> No.14595514

>>14595500
Publishers only bring the big hype to certain works and usually they must serve their caste's interests

>> No.14595535

>>14594829
Tai Pei is good but I think I like Shoplifting From American Apparel more. I was surprised with his reputation that he only really gets into his drug use in Tai Pei. The ending legitimately ripped me

>> No.14595586

>>14595380
Tao?

>> No.14595690

>>14595297
Please leak your draft of leave society

>> No.14595847

No

>> No.14596260

>>14595297
Pynchon only made it worse for himself by not playing their game at all.

>> No.14596286

>>14594277
I hated the ending

>> No.14596405

>>14596286
>at last Paul saw... the will to live was there all along within himself and within space, but hiding... in the shadows of TAIPEI.
>Trieste-Zurich-Paris, 2013

>> No.14596555

Change is a part of life. No sense resisting it. :3

>> No.14596816

>>14594845
Kill yourself. I watched the first three minutes and it's typical cringy zoomer "comedy".
"Ihih guys look, here's funny pictures me and my mate used to send one another. One of them is about ass-eating. Ihih ahah we're so wacky and crazy and we do drugs. Did I mention we do drugs? Also, we're totally like, depressed and stuff."

If you think this is funny I'm afraid salvation is a lost cause.

>> No.14597057

>>14596816
but he's a millennial