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Are you going to listen to Tao's podcast?

https://soundcloud.com/taolin/two-hour-podcast-about-my-writing-1

>> No.7838945

no

>> No.7838950

that picture

>> No.7838959
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>>7838950
What on earth is he trying to accomplish with such a ridiculous picture

>asian dweeb
>leather jacket
>doesnt even play in a cool band

>> No.7838964

the bad boy of sitting in a room alone sipping coffee, writing sentences

>> No.7838970

lmao thought for a moment that it was really him, that he had rebranded

>> No.7838972

>>7838970
Is it not him?

>> No.7838976

>http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/tao-lin-1/

It's him. But he's not rebranding. It's three years old.

>> No.7838982

>>7838976
ah ok i didn't even bother to open the thumbnail.
but having it opened yeah it's him

>> No.7839304

>>7838943

sweet!

>> No.7839306

no

>> No.7839314

>>7838943
What I don't get about Tao Lin is that he doesn't even write that much. Tai Pei was decent, but what is he working on now? He is too blown up.

>> No.7839320

>>7839314
He is working on books
You would know that if you'd even once googled him

>> No.7839326

>>7838943
He actually sounds like a retard

>> No.7839332

Cant help but think hes trying too hard.

>> No.7839345

>>7839314

Taipei was released two years ago. He's written a book every year since 2007

>> No.7839346

>>7839332
Agreed, it's like he's really trying to be autistic

>> No.7839349

>>7839345
Yea, and very mediocre reviews. I personally enjoyed it for what it is, but I think he is overrated, I only hear about him thanks to 4chan

>> No.7839356

>>7839349
So you only visit 4chan on the internet?

>> No.7839358

>>7839356
Where else should I go? /lit/ is the only place I go to talk and learn about books

>> No.7839704

>>7839314
he's working on a fiction and a non-fiction book right now iirc

>> No.7839704,1 [INTERNAL] 

"To judge by ome of the most critically acclaimed and influential novels of recent years, a diverse group of younger novelists have little interest in becoming specialists in empathy. They tackle a variety of subjects in their fiction, but they share a ruminative first-person voice given to self-expression more than to distinct characterization. Although many of these novels are about young artists in urban settings, it’s hard to align their voices with an identifiable “perspective,” because they are so uninflected, so limpid as to seem almost naive. They scarcely have a story to tell; they are diaristic, meandering, reflective. And the focus of their reflections is the dangers that empathy might present—the way that it invites a surrender of the self; the way that its preference for the nuances of psychological communion can create a fog of complacency, blurring stark truths of power; the way that it pushes us toward social adhesion when we’re more at risk of losing an awareness of our identities as protean and separate."

- "The New Fiction of Solitude," The Atlantic, April 2016 issue

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-new-fiction-of-solitude/471474/

>> No.7839704,2 [INTERNAL] 

>>7839704,1
why the fuck are you posting in the archive