George W. Bush is the new Tao Lin

Posted by Jason Diamond We’ve finally come to the point where a reputable literary magazine compares George W. Bush’s prose in Decision Points to Tao Lin’s.  Eliot Weinberger in the London Review of Books, linked the writings of the worst president ever to the guy who wrote Shoplifting From American Apparel: “There are nearly 500 pages of this, reminiscent of the current po-mo poster boys, Tao Lin, with his anaesthetised declarative sentences,” I’m not sure if this Lin takes this […]

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Weekend Bites: No Good Witz Reviews, Be in a Safran Foer Film, Top Chef Aleister Crowley and More

At HTMLGIANT: Months after it came out, Kyle Minor still doesn’t think he’s read a good review of Joshua Cohen’s Witz. At Jewcy: For those of you who have always dreamed of being in a film adaptation of a Jonathan Safran Foer book, this is your big chance…considering you’re under the age of thirteen. At The Telegraph: Expectations are high for George W. Bush’s memoirs. At Galley Cat:  Billy Idol gets a deal to put out his memoirs, Dancing With […]

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