I like Tao Lin and I like Gawker. So when the blog called the writer the single most irritating person they ever had to deal with, I felt torn. But that is all in the past, Tao has been published on the site, and everything is finally okay in my world.
The Tao Lin Guide to Interviewing Tao Lin
Over at his blog, Tao Lin has posted questions he’s interested in answering, and ones he’d rather not bother with.
Post-Abramovic
The artist wearing something that isn’t her poopy dress. L Magazine gives us the best and the worst of the artists “inspired” by Abramović at MoMA. (Warning, boobies) Tao Lin checked out the exhibit after stopping by a White Castle. (He didn’t eat anything) Catherine Lacey at HTMLGIANT
The Best way to Read Richard Yates Before Anybody Else…
Be the first on your block to read Tao Lin’s forthcoming novel, Richard Yates, so you can say that you: A. Loved it before everybody else did. B. Got over it before everybody else did. C. Hated it before everybody else did. Your best bet is to join The Rumpus Book Club. I’m only telling you this because I get the feeling that 86% of you who talked shit about Shoplifting From American Apparel either never read it, or only […]
Everyday Genius and Me
Rozalia Jovanovic, co-founding editor of Gigantic, and woman with 100 other cool things attached to her name, asked me to participate in the latest Everyday Genius project, “Manuel for a Productive Everyday Life.” I’m in some good company with names like Justin Taylor, Leni Zumas, Tao Lin, and Jeff Lewis. You should maybe check it out.
Tao Lin Gets Assigned
I have nothing to add to this. I’m just going to steal what MobyLives posted: “At his blog, heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com, Tao Lin observes that Professor Carla Bluhm of the College of Coastal Georgia has assigned Lin’s short story collection Bed to students in her “Introduction to Human Development” class. Their assignment? To tweet about the stories.”
Weekend Bites: Ploughshares in the 80’s, Tao’s Mixtape, Dust Jackets WTF?, Graydon’s Presidents, and More
Raymond Carver and other guest editors of Ploughshares from the 1980’s. Tao Lin makes a mixtape. Aleksandar Hemon: not a Jew. MobyLives ponders the point of dust jacket. Graydon Carter has a book out about American presidents. Who doesn’t think Martin Amis is great?
We Are All Holden Caulfield…and Stuff.
J.D. Salinger has been dead a little over a week, but his most popular book, and character, continues to be a popular topic on the net. The Daily Beast discusses “The Heirs to Holden“. and Deckfight asks if Tao Lin’s Shoplifting From American Apparel is the new Catcher in the Rye? and Joanna Smith Rakoff talks about her experiences handling Salinger’s mail.