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"TAO LIN'S SECOND NOVEL"
September 07 2010 / Melville House
author info / full coverage / index
FOREIGN EDITIONS
Spain (Alpha Decay, 2011)
Italy (Saggiatore, 2011)
France (Au Diable Vauvert, 2012)
CONTACT
binky.tabby [at] gmail.com (author)
vm [at] mhpbooks.com (foreign rights)
COVERAGE
01.19.12 Le Monde 2 3 / review
01.05.12 Les Inrocks / review
11.13.10 Guardian / review
10.14.10 London Review / review
09.24.10 New York Times / review
09.24.10 Boston Globe / review
09.22.10 The Stranger / profile
09.22.10 BlackBook / profile
09.16.10 Vice / review
09.16.10 It's Nice That / interview
09.07.10 Village Voice / review
09.07.10 Hipster Runoff / excerpt
09.07.10 Huffington Post / review
09.07.10 Bookforum / review
09.02.10 Associated Press / profile
08.26.10 Time Out New York / review
08.24.10 Nylon / profile
08.24.10 Salon / profile
08.19.10 Interview / interview
08.18.10 NY Observer / profile
07.05.10 HTMLGIANT / review
02.02.10 Alt Report / cover
08.22.08 Gawker / shares
08.06.08 BBC Radio 2 / shares
08.06.08 Guardian / shares
08.04.08 Telegraph / shares
08.01.08 Freakonomics blog / shares
BOOK TOUR
09.07 Manhattan / TriBeCa B&N
09.09 Brooklyn / BookCourt
09.10 Brooklyn / Spoonbill
09.11 Ohio / DIT Fest
09.14 Minnesota / Edina B&N
09.15 Chicago / Quimby's
09.16 Chicago / Book Cellar
09.19 Ann Arbor / GLGT
09.23 Boston / Harvard Book Store
09.24 Middletown / Broad Street
09.26 Seattle / Elliott Bay
09.28 Portland / Reading Frenzy
09.29 Santa Monica / B&N
09.30 Los Angeles / Skylight Books
10.01 Encinitas / Ducky Waddles
10.04 San Francisco / Booksmith
10.06 San Francisco / RADAR
10.11 Los Angeles / UCLA
10.12 Philadelphia / Brickbat Books
10.13 Manhattan / McNally Jackson
10.18 Montreal / Drawn & Quarterly
10.20 Toronto / Type Books
10.26 Manhattan / St. Mark's
10.28 Brooklyn / Word
11.04 Baltimore / Atomic Books
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"Richard Yates is hilarious, menacing, and hugely intelligent. Tao Lin is a Kafka for the iPhone generation. He has that most important gift: it’s impossible to imagine anyone else writing like he does and sounding authentic. Yet he has already spawned a huge school of Lin imitators. As precocious and prolific as he is, every book surpasses the last. Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today."
—Clancy Martin
"Richard Yates is a moving, very funny, discomforting, and heartbreakingly life-affirming meditation on extremes—extreme alienation, extreme intimacy, extreme confusion, extreme expectations—that reads like a meticulously and lovingly crafted collaboration between a weirder Ernest Hemingway and a more philosophically-minded Jean Rhys."
—James Frey
"[Richard Yates] is a focused, moving, and rather upsetting portrait of two oddballs in love."
—Boston Globe
"[Richard Yates] is amazingly weird, disturbing, and good."
—Time Out New York
"Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass—from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious."
—Miranda July
"[F]ascinating and articulate."
—Emily Gould
"Stimulating and exciting."
—San Francisco Bay Guardian
"A master of understatement–or, rather, of statement."
—Vice
"[Shoplifting from American Apparel] is the purest example so far of the minimalist aesthetic as it used to be enunciated."
—Michael Silverblatt, Bookworm
"Lin's sympathetic fascination with the meaning of life is full of profound and often hilarious insights."
—Publishers Weekly
"[Richard Yates] is like a ninety-foot pigeon. You've never seen anything like it before, and yet it is somehow exactly like the world we live in."
—Daniel Handler
"Do you read Tao Lin and think 'I love this! What is it?' Perhaps it is the curious effect of a radically talented, fecund and tender mind setting down a world sans sense or consequence."
—Lore Segal
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