Tao Lin

Taipéi, la tercera novela de Tao Lin publicada por Alpha Decay, es una oda –o un lamento– a la forma de vida actual. Es una meditación desasosegante pero a su vez apasionada acerca de la memoria, el

En la formación de Tao Lin como escritor, la poesía y el relato breve estuvieron antes que la novela. De hecho, la colección de relatos Bed (2007) se publicó en paralelo a su primera ficción larga, E

Impúdicamente autobiográfica y desesperadamente moderna, sobria y austera como un hermoso haiku, deliciosamente absurda y dolorosamente divertida, "Robar en American Apparel" sembró controversia y encendida polemica desde el momento de su publicacion. Las hilarantes y absurdas correrias de Sam, empleado basura, aspirante a escritor, adicto a eBay, a los smoothies y a la leche de soja, le llevaran sin blanca de Pensilvania a Manhattan y de ahi a Florida pasando por Atlantic City, intentando sobrevivir a sus amigos, a su propia neurosis, a su triste apartamento y a una interminable ruptura con la adorable e inestable Sheila. Mientras, Sam trata de escribir la novela que le sacara del arroyo y le salvara de la paralisis existencial en la que hace aguas su vida.

EEEEE EEE EEEE es una obra agradablemente sofisticada, una hazaña natural aunque autoritaria sobre la búsqueda del sentido en una cultura que se ha vuelto loca con los famosos y la publicidad. La prosa de Lin, que representa a un grupo de amigos en plena transicion entre el colegio y la edad adulta, es notablemente estilosa, divertida, y lirica, a medida que nos recuerda que la juventud sigue siendo por suerte epoca de preguntas profundas, comprensiones dolorosas, diversion y esperanza. Un lugar donde los animales hablan, los libros y la musica importan, la honestidad cuenta y puedes preguntar, sin miedo a pasar verguenza, ¿Que es un Jhumpa Lahiri? Es un debut brillante y feliz.

In a startling change of direction, cult favorite Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love that is his most sophisticated and mesmerizing writing yet. Richard Yates is named after real-life writer Richard Yates, but it has nothing to do with him. Instead, it More... tracks the rise and fall of an illicit affair between a very young writer and his even younger--in fact, under-aged--lover. As he seeks to balance work and love, she becomes more and more self-destructive in a play for his undivided attention. His guilt and anger builds in response until they find themselves hurtling out of control and afraid to let go. Lin's trademark minimalism takes on a new, sharp-edged suspense here, zeroing in on a lacerating narrative like never before --until it is almost, in fact, too late.

The Internet has spawned a generation exceedingly more awkward, apathetic and lost than any that has come beforeat least, this seems to be the message and intention of Lins underwhelming novella (after Eeeee Eee Eeee and Bed). Sam works at an organic vegan restaurant and spends much of his time checking e-mails and instant messaging with his equally detached friends while wandering downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn. There is, indeed, the shoplifting of a T-shirt (and, later, earphones), the actsboth of which end in Sams arrestmotivated by a need for "variety." Though Lin strives to paint a portrait of a generation of disaffected youth "caught in the soft blue light of Internet Explorer," this offers little more than lackadaisical pop culture reportage that reads mostly like a diary rendered in third person.

Qu’est-ce que l’inspiration ? Que nous apportent les états de conscience altérés ? Que cherche-t-on au-delà des perceptions rationnelles ?Dans la lignée de Michaux, Burroughs, McKenna ou de la Chemic

Deux années de la vie d’un jeune auteur culte ou, selon ce dernier, « un livre sur la nature unidirectionnelle du temps et la manière dont elle rend tout beau et triste ».

Si Richard Yates, roman damour de la solitude contemporaine, rendait compte des sentiments des êtres par leurs actes et gestes quotidiens, la poésie de Tao Lin rend compte de l’être en auscultant la

Ce roman, même sil s’intitule Richard Yates, n’a aucun rapport avec l’auteur éponyme… Ce n’est en aucun cas une biographie, le titre fait plutôt appel (même s’il est fait référence à quelques reprise

« Une véritable sensation littéraire » — Rolling Stone« Lin à l’apogée de l’humour et du mordant. » — Globe and Mail« D’une grande force émotionnelle, un roman sans une once d’autoapitoiement, de mél

Escrita casi en su totalidad a partir de conversaciones extraídas de chats de Gmail, "Richard Yates" encapsula a la perfección la soledad, la alienación, el aburrimiento y el abandono de millones de adolescentes que ven discurrir sus vidas a traves de las pantallas liquidas de sus ordenadores portatiles. Los protagonistas de esta novela (titulada parodicamente en honor a Richard Yates, por el amor desgarrado e imposible que retrata) se llaman como dos celebres actores norteamericanos que dieron sus primeros pasos en la pantalla grande siendo todavia unos niños: Haley Joel Osment y Dakota Fanning. Haley y Dakota estan enamorados pero viven en ciudades distintas. Su relacion se va cimentando a traves de eternos chats desolados donde los trastornos alimenticios de ella se solapan con el nihilismo y la desazon de ambos. Una novela brillante, endiabladamente inteligente, delicada y sutil de cuyas paginas uno no puede levantar la vista ni un segundo. Mas adictiva que Internet, "Richard Yates" esta destinada a convertirse en la nueva Biblia de la generacion iPhone.

From the acclaimed author of Taipei, a bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his livesartist, son, loneras he spins the ordinary into something monumental. An engrossing, hopeful novel about life, fiction, and where the two blur together.In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesnt know it yet, but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on this trip. As he flies between these two worlds--year by year, over four years--he will flit in and out of optimism, despair, loneliness, sanity, bouts of chronic pain, and drafts of a new book. He will incite and temper arguments, uncover secrets about nature and history, and try to understand how to live a meaningful life as an artist and a son. But how to fit these pieces of his life together? Where to begin? Or should he leave society altogether? Exploring everyday events and scenes--waiting rooms, dog walks, family meals--while investigatively venturing to the edges of society, where culture dissolves into mystery, Lin shows what it is to write a novel in real time. Illuminating and deeply felt, as it builds toward a stunning, if unexpected, romance, Leave Society is a masterly story about life and art at the end of history. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

The basis for the movie High Resolution From one of this generations most talked about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal, powerful, and moving novel about family, relationships, accelerating drug use, and the lingering possibility of death. Taipei by Tao Lin is an ode--or lament--to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattans art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his familys roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into an unexpected wedding in Las Vegas. Along the waywhether on all night drives up the East Coast, shoplifting excursions in the South, book readings on the West Coast, or ill advised grocery runs in Ohiomovies are made with laptop cameras, massive amounts of drugs are ingested, and two young lovers come to learn what it means to share themselves completely. The result is a suspenseful meditation on memory, love, and what it means to be alive, young, and on the fringe in America, or anywhere else for that matter.

Part memoir, part history, part journalistic exposé, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literature, and alienation from one of the twenty-first centurys most innovative novelists--The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a new generation. A Vintage Original.While reeling from one of the most creative--but at times self-destructive--outpourings of his life, Tao Lin discovered the strange and exciting work of Terence McKenna. McKenna, the leading advocate of psychedelic drugs since Timothy Leary, became for Lin both an obsession and a revitalizing force. In Trip, Lins first book-length work of nonfiction, he charts his recovery from pharmaceutical drugs, his surprising and positive change in worldview, and his four-year engagement with some of the hardest questions: Why do we make art? Is the world made of language? What happens when we die? And is the imagination more real than the universe?In exploring these ideas and detailing his experiences with psilocybin, DMT, salvia, and cannabis, Lin takes readers on a trip through nature, his own past, psychedelic culture, and the unknown.