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180. Tao Lin (Part 1)
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66 minutes
Released:
Jun 5, 2013
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Tao Lin is the guest. His new novel, Taipei, is now available in trade paperback from Vintage Contemporaries.
Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, says
"For all its straightforwardness, Lin’s previous work—with its flat, Internet-inspired prose issued by small presses—has presented a stumbling stone for readers who fall outside his North Brooklyn contingent, for whom he is the standard bearer. This will change with the breakout Taipei, a novel about disaffection that’s oddly affecting. . . . Everything about Taipei appears to run contrary to the standard idea of what constitutes art. And yet, the documentary precision captures the sleepwalking malaise of Lin’s generation so completely, it’s scary. . . . Yet for all its emotional reality, Taipei is a book without an ounce of self-pity, melodrama, or posturing, making the glacial Lin (Richard Yates) the perfect poster child for a generation facing—and failing to face—maturity.”
And Bret Easton Ellis says
“With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation.”
Monologue topics: Terence McKenna, telepathy, language, evolution, death, getting [your] act together.
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Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, says
"For all its straightforwardness, Lin’s previous work—with its flat, Internet-inspired prose issued by small presses—has presented a stumbling stone for readers who fall outside his North Brooklyn contingent, for whom he is the standard bearer. This will change with the breakout Taipei, a novel about disaffection that’s oddly affecting. . . . Everything about Taipei appears to run contrary to the standard idea of what constitutes art. And yet, the documentary precision captures the sleepwalking malaise of Lin’s generation so completely, it’s scary. . . . Yet for all its emotional reality, Taipei is a book without an ounce of self-pity, melodrama, or posturing, making the glacial Lin (Richard Yates) the perfect poster child for a generation facing—and failing to face—maturity.”
And Bret Easton Ellis says
“With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation.”
Monologue topics: Terence McKenna, telepathy, language, evolution, death, getting [your] act together.
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Released:
Jun 5, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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