Taipei

Tao Lin is the author of the novels Richard Yates and Eeeee Eee Eeee, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel, the story collection Bed, and the poetry collections cognitive-behavioral therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am. He is the founder and editor of the literary press Muumuu House. His work has been translated to twelve languages and he lives in Manhattan.

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* The most interesting prose stylist of his generation -- Bret Easton Ellis * Moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious -- Miranda July, author of No One Belongs Here More Than You * Lin's writing is reminiscent of early Douglas Coupland, or early Bret Easton Ellis, but there is also something going on here that is more profoundly peculiar, even Beckettian ... deliciously odd Guardian * Lin is a 21st century literary adventurer ... [Taipei] is a fascinating book, bone dry, repellant, painful, but relentlessly true to life -- Frederick Barthelme, author of Waveland * A Kafka for the iPhone generation ... Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today -- Clancy Martin [A] deadpan literary trickster New York Times * Alienation, obsession, social confusion, drugs, the internet, sex, food, death - [are] rendered here with a calm intuition ... a work of vision so relentless it forces most any reader to respond -- Blake Butler, author of Sky Saw * A strange, hypnotic, memoir-reeking novel that is equal parts dissociative and heartbreaking, surreally hallucinogenic and grittily realist, ugly and beautiful -- Porochista Khakpour, author of Sons and Other Flammable Objects * Deeply smart, funny, and heads-over-heels dedicated New York Magazine * Lin captures certain qualities of contemporary life better than many writers in part because he dispenses with so much that is expected of current fiction London Review of Books * Tao Lin is the most distinctive young writer I've come upon in a long time: the most intrepid, the funniest, the strangest. He's a new voice, and the pleasure of reading his work is a new kind of pleasure -- Brian Morton, author of Starting Out in the Evening * [Tao Lin's] relentless, near-autistic focus on the surfaces of social interaction belongs to a literary lineage that includes not just the frequently cited Bret Easton Ellis but also Alain Robbe-Grillet, Rudy Wurlitzer, and Dennis Cooper The Village Voice *

The most interesting prose stylist of his generation Bret Easton Ellis