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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 08:38:46 No.7301777 View Reply Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7301791 >>7301795 >>7301798 >>7301966

Do you agree with this?

>I do not read novels over 400 pages [...] I find that all the novels of 400 pages can be turned into a novel of 200 pages.

Also are you hyped for Tao's new book?

>"it's called "Leave Society" and it is a novel about child relationships, with a protagonist who has a good relationship with their parents. And instead of the destructive drugs in Taipei , there will be psychedelic drugs, LSD, mushrooms and cannabis. It is my optimistic novel"

http://www.infobae.com/2015/10/04/1759993-tao-lin-evito-la-diversion-mis-libros

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 08:44:16 No.7301791 Report Delete

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>>7301777
Thats a pretty retarded thing to say, but its nice seeing him going for something life-affirming.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 08:46:21 No.7301795 Report Delete

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>>7301777
no i sincerely dont :^)

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 08:48:58 No.7301798 Report Delete

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>>7301777
>Do you agree with this?
>
>>I do not read novels over 400 pages [...] I find that all the novels of 400 pages can be turned into a novel of 200 pages.

No, I do not. And I doubt Lin does either. There is something about the 'big novel' being out-of-fashion, and if you're trying to break into the literary scene you'd do well to write something under 400 pages. Especially when we're talking about a specific type of 'big novel:' how many people actually read Vollman and his bloated and heavily ornate behemoths?

That aside, to just toss your hands up at 400 pages plus no matter the content and form is just silly.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 09:07:43 No.7301855 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7301966 >>7301988 >>7301998

I am reading Garth Risk Hallberg's City on Fire, which is over 900 pages and contains the kind of rich writing that pathetic, drug-addled, narcissistic Tao Lin can't understand, let alone put anything one-millionth as good on paper. Garth Risk Hallberg defeats Tao Lin.

I recently read Joshua Cohen's Book of Numbers. It's over 600 pages and again, just as Joshua Cohen eviscerated Tao Lin in his Bookforum review of the YA novel Taipei, Cohen here writes with the kind of dexterity, brilliance and depth that's so far beyond Lin that Lin is basically a child by comparison. Joshua Cohen defeats Tao Lin.

So does Atticus Lish and pretty much every male and female novelist with longer novels than pathetic gasbag Lin.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 09:09:55 No.7301865 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7302016

Word is no NY publisher wants Tao Lin's new novel. He will have to rely on some small press in the sticks, as he did with Selected Tweets.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 09:10:15 No.7301868 Report Delete

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I usually find that 200 pages novels can be turned into a 100 pages novel. And then, 100 pages novels can be turned into a 30 pages short story. And sometimes, those 30 pages short stories can be turned into 1 paragraph. And then, that paragraph can be turned into a twitter post.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 09:41:33 No.7301966 Report Delete

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>>7301777
I enjoyed Taipei. some parts were a real slog but there were some incredibly lucid moments. I'll probably read his new one.

>>7301855
is City on Fire really that good? i'm always skeptical when a Big Novel by a Pasty White Nerd starts to make the NYT/Barnes & Noble rounds.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 09:46:49 No.7301980 Report Delete

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Tao is the definition of hack so idk why you take anything he says seriously

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 09:49:09 No.7301983 Report Delete

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I thought Tai Pei ended on an extremely optimistic note.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 09:51:19 No.7301988 Report Delete

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>>7301855
pretty semitocentric taste

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 09:55:42 No.7301998 Report Delete

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>>7301855

yeah what's up with >>7301988
huh jew-boy?

im jk

but really nobody gives a shit about Garth Fartsberg or Josh Colon bcuz they're boring as fuck. at least Tao is interesting

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 09:58:53 No.7302007 Report Delete

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>Some kid has great parents and takes "good" drugs

Then what's the fucking point of reading it? Where's the conflict?

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:01:20 No.7302015 Report Delete

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Tao's stuff is really great guys, just been reading some of his tweets; you guys should follow him, he's really street. Check out Mira Gonzalez as well guys, she's making some hot stuff

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:01:26 No.7302016 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7302060 >>7303904

>>7301865

Really? But Vintage took on Taipei and it seems to me it was at least a minor success. I was recently looking up some new writers, you know those ones with MFAs that live in Brooklyn (A. Kleeman, R. Dinerstein etc.), they were all published by Random House or some shit like that. How come they get these comparatively big book deals when Tao is kind of a name already?
I thought his first few books were absolute dogshit but Taipei had some good things in it. I'm looking forward to the new one. The animosity towards big books seems to be just stemming from his whole minimalism shtick and being on twitter too much, so that's a pretty stupid thing to say.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:12:46 No.7302060 Report Delete

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>>7302016
How did you "Look up" these authors?

I've posted Dinerstein here before but I hadn't heard of Kleeman.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:13:59 No.7302067 Report Delete

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>>7302007
have you read it!

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:17:20 No.7302079 Report Delete

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>>7302015
go to bed tao

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 15:52:03 No.7303184 Report Delete

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tao's next book is 1200 pages

https://twitter.com/tao_lin/status/654341626161197056

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:04:30 No.7303613 Report Delete

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dude, drugs lmao

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:20:50 No.7303671 Report Delete

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Tao Lin has never read Les Miserables?

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:39:31 No.7303727 Report Delete

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>>7301966
Not him, but I've read the first fifty pages of City on Fire and it's pretty standard MFA, free indirect discourse stuff. Probably about the best that stuff gets, though.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:35:23 No.7303904 Report Delete

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>>7302016
>first few books are shit

I sort of agree. I did not enjoy richard yates and that was my introduction to taolin. However i did enjoy shoplifting from american apparel and tai pei. I havent read eee yet nor his poetry, which ive heard is quite good. Interested to check out his new stuff.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:50:56 No.7303956 Report Delete

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>DUDE PSYCHEDELICS LMAO
he really makes you think

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