melville house is publishing my story-collection, BED
melville house
BED
posting this here makes it harder for anyone to get out of this
i'm happy melville house is publishing BED
the village voice took me off their 'OTHER LIT BLOGS' list
but people there still come here, i see from my statistics
i will post blurbs of my poetry book soon on the poetry book blog
but i need some 'bad' blurbs, so people who don't like me... email me some blurbs that shit-talk me; you don't need to have read the book to blurb it
i want to have it so everyone can say what they really think
email me, 'i read tao lin's book and vomited on my dog; and cleaned the dog'
reader.of.depressing.books [at] gmail.com
this is in the poetry book
read it and blurb me
i like blurbs
i am going to mention now that kevin sampsell is publishing a chapbook of me in a few months; i never mention that but it's happening, we just haven't started working on it yet and have no title or anything
old friends by stephen dixon
melville house published that and i read it and liked it
noah's book cover looks good
dennis loy johnson linked me a long time ago
BED
posting this here makes it harder for anyone to get out of this
i'm happy melville house is publishing BED
the village voice took me off their 'OTHER LIT BLOGS' list
but people there still come here, i see from my statistics
i will post blurbs of my poetry book soon on the poetry book blog
but i need some 'bad' blurbs, so people who don't like me... email me some blurbs that shit-talk me; you don't need to have read the book to blurb it
i want to have it so everyone can say what they really think
email me, 'i read tao lin's book and vomited on my dog; and cleaned the dog'
reader.of.depressing.books [at] gmail.com
this is in the poetry book
read it and blurb me
i like blurbs
i am going to mention now that kevin sampsell is publishing a chapbook of me in a few months; i never mention that but it's happening, we just haven't started working on it yet and have no title or anything
old friends by stephen dixon
melville house published that and i read it and liked it
noah's book cover looks good
dennis loy johnson linked me a long time ago
42 Comments:
I never heard of Melville House? Is there also Moby Dick House? Do they pay you any advances? Stephen who? Isn't it the first time you ever mentioned his name? I thought he's alread dead, isn't he?
Congratulations!
I'm really happy about this.
I feel like crying.
I'm happy.
Good job.
awesome. i've heard of melville house, they're good. congratulations!
stephen dixon is a good guy by the way.
i sent him a book once that i'd written. he didn't know who i was. he came off an airplane from paris and got to his door and there was my book in the mail and he lay on his couch and read the whole thing straight through.
then he wrote me a letter about it (a typewritten letter, and this was in '98.)
i was amazed at this. i wrote him back a note, you know like thanks very much, see ya. and he wrote back another whole letter!
so you should send him BED to get him to comment on it. actually melville house should do that for you. tell them to do that. cause he'll read it and give you a blurb.
congratulations, tao!! what a coup.
Good on you, Tao.
I will now sort of pretend to be Tao.
dogs ask lots of questions when they are allowed to type on the internet
Grendel:
melville house is a small publishing house created by a guy who is related to melville
they do pay advances and i am giving all of it to Matthew Simmons because he started the first Reader of Depressing Books fan blog, Reader of Absurdist Books and because he's great
he will use the advance to buy the house next door to jonathan safran foer and nicole krauss
they will fondue together, but only when no animals are killed to make the fondue
secretly, he will spend lots of time in the foer-krauss bathroom, sneaking pepperoni sticks
stephen dixon is a really good writer who writes in huge paragraphs that cover pages and pages
he's not dead
I am sending my fart bombs to tao and the man who...
come to our blog: http://www.earthgoat.blogspot.com/
and check out which presses publish us earthgoats and iowa graduates and what kind of books!
Grendel,
Don't hang out here with these guys. This blog is for losers! Aren't wee the NY Yankees of MFA programs? We're the cream of the crop!
Jarhead
i even wonder whether these losers read new yorker stories...
Long live the New Yorker!
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i just figured out whatever the grendel pic is. oh great.
noah:
thank you for being happy
chapman:
that is a good story about stephen dixon
i like him too
i read about seven of his books i think
what have you read?
felicia:
hi
matthew:
thank you for starting reader of absurdist books
someone should start reader of reader of depressing and absurdist books and blog about these two blogs
maybe i will do it
life is that boring and stupid that maybe i will do it
grendel:
hi
i can't tell if you're attacking me or what
but if you want to attack me that is okay with me
life is stupid and boring
success is stupid too
clay:
flyers
tao,
don't get nervous. i am not getting on your ass. you'd better save your ass for your new sugar daddy.
"life is stupid and boring
success is stupid too"
tao sounds like he has just won a Nobel prize.
Congratulations.
Yay Tao!
someone write a poem called 'fuck the nobel prize' and i'll accept it for 3 a.m. magazine
write it in the comments section here
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someone write a poem called 'fuck the action prize' and i'll accept it for our magazine: http://www.earthgoat.blogspot.com/
write it in the comments section here
the steven seagal of poetry
tao mao yao
shit shot shat
kungpao kung fu chop chop chop
fuck the action prize
From now on, men over 40 are not allowed to blog here. It’s too crowded here. Too many dirty old men come here, sniff at tao’s ass in heat, try to ride his ass…
These comments are confusing me, but whatever.
Congratulations, Tao. I want to read your book.
Congrats! I read about your triumph on Bookslut's Blog. Good for you!
Hey ladies,
Aren't you tired of Tao's scrawny ass? Come to see my new look at http://thejimside.blog-city.com/
xxxjimmy
Tao is a cocksucking sellout. Jimmy is a real rebel.Go check out his blog: http://thejimside.blog-city.com/
i feel strange
james, make it longer and email it to me
and take out 'morons'
and maybe have some hamsters
if you want
Awesome, Tao.
I've rarely felt more awkward reading anyone else.
tao, how's your blood pressure?
hi gene
the poem you paid me for is in the book
thank you for paying me
i like this comments section
it feels like a real community
"I've rarely felt more awkward reading anyone else."
can i use that as a blurb?
you can elaborate if you want
It was a pleasure. I've got some disposable income I mainly spend on video games and poetry. Rent is cheap in Houston.
I'm glad that story is going in your book, because it seriously disturbed everyone that read it, and everyone I know read it.
Blurb me all you want. I could elaborate on that one blurb a bit, but I've got to do my math homework and need to call my mom, so maybe later.
This is the one and only Jim Behrle.
Accept no substitutes.
I think Tao is cool: I'm reading with him 3/19...all these other Behrle wannabes are sad.
xxxjimmy
PS: No one speaks for me and I don't care if anyone ever comes to my website. Beetlejuice, Fake Jimmy, guy who stole my cat's asshole...you are all gonna pay for pretending to be me.
xxxjimmy
PS: My blogger profile is old and internationally known. Don't let the fakers get you down...
Fuck the Nobel Prize
But first I want to fuck Oprah *raw*
I am unspeakably handsome charged with light
and you are wearing those boots
If I think / drank the fact
But in Memory of the Winners!
falling ulcers get muddy voodoo
I just came thundrously on
Garcia-Marquez's spotty moustache
in the dawnshame
when all lust is gone
love handles you never let go of
and confetti across the eyes
Hey T, I came in late for this -- congrats on the book. Wishing you all the best. Sorry I couldn't buy you a drink & tell you this in person.
"It was a pleasure. I've got some disposable income I mainly spend on video games and poetry. Rent is cheap in Houston."
gene, you are a good person
you should be the editor of 95% of literary magazines, the ones where they're always complaining or else proud, somehow, that they are using their own money to have their own literary magazine
jim, try again, but with smaller words
but keep oprah
cm, hi, nice to know you read my site
Whoever was posting pretending to be me is very likely a sad, pathetic psychopath. Either that or just sad and pathetic. Or just sad. Or just pathetic. What they are not is me.
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