Richard Yates, "Tao Lin's second novel" (~55,600 word count)
will be published September 07 2010 by Melville House, for more information go here.
Journalists interested in "covering" Richard Yates, "Tao Lin's second novel," are encouraged to talk to their editors. One can look at Richard Yates on Goodreads/Amazon/Facebook. The cover "pic" is by Michael E. Northrup.
Journalists interested in a galley for review/interview purposes can email Megan Halpern at megan [at] mhpbooks.com, galleys will be available in late-May. Editors from other countries interested in "acquiring" Richard Yates for their homeland/country are encouraged to go here. Thank you for your time/consideration.
Journalists interested in "covering" Richard Yates, "Tao Lin's second novel," are encouraged to talk to their editors. One can look at Richard Yates on Goodreads/Amazon/Facebook. The cover "pic" is by Michael E. Northrup.
Journalists interested in a galley for review/interview purposes can email Megan Halpern at megan [at] mhpbooks.com, galleys will be available in late-May. Editors from other countries interested in "acquiring" Richard Yates for their homeland/country are encouraged to go here. Thank you for your time/consideration.
71 Comments:
that cover looks really nice
nice
love that cove'
nice cover
5th
wow, looks really good
nice bro. nice. bro. nice.
...bro
looking forward to september then, congrats
'look at this vagina'
but not really, or something
looks vaguely vaginal
face conch, i like it
nice nice cover.... who designed it?
cool
A really good cover, yeah. Kind on painful to watch as it's constantly clear that this shell will not ever bend. Feels like a hard sentiment.
that's a great cover. I can't wait to read it.
the .info site is weak
tao, thx for linking me 'briefly'
the cover looks really cool/suggestive
wowzers
nice cover
that cover is 'fucked up' but in a good way i think.
already has me laughing. great job.
tao is pretty wealthy now you guys. like, really living quite well.
nice. not sexual or oceanographic enough though.
God, you are a fucking genius. Damn it!! I want to be a genius.
@anonymous, how well? has he purchased a bmw yet?
T-Lin, are you like Michael Moore now, in that you’re selling a certain aesthetic and point of view that you don’t actually espouse or represent? Are you actually already quite happy and sufficiently wealthy from your books, and living in a nice penthouse apartment in the Meatpacking District, and eating at Morimoto and Per Se all the time? And all the photos taken in your bedroom are just taken on a set you have in a warehouse in Brooklyn that’s dressed to look like a poor 20-something’s domicile? And you go there once a month for a few hours to take a 30 day’s worth of photos that you release at a staggered pace? And you have a food stylist somewhere else create all the food you supposedly eat and photograph? It would be hard to tell, right? You could just fabricate the whole thing. This is a serious question.
By the way, I’m not accusing you of being deceptive or anything. I actually think that would be pretty smart and awesome. I encourage you to do it when possible. I’m just curious about the so-called truth.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Ween-TheMollusk.jpg
i think it's rick moody
definitely not oceanographic enough
commenting anonymously because i dont like the cover.
use a different cover. use the other one.
too much sea breeze bro. or maybe just enough. i don't know.
whole lot of labia
I think Tao Lin has worked a 'lot' on his writing and thinking and I think he 'deserves' any and all success coming his way. I like his thinking and his writing and his 'way.'
Anonymous #1's comment is a pretty good idea.
Why does it take so long to get a book out? Didn't Tao Lin write this book a year ago?
i like this cover. it reminds me a lot of alin huma ---> alinhuma.livejournal.com
i think he works very hard and is pretty poor other anonymous
why can't this book be ABOUT richard yates! damn u lin
richard yates is like that cool band that nobody's ever heard of but is really good and even better because no one's heard of it
i feel like i have to "read this for free in the bookstore" because it's called richard yates, even though it's probably about fuzzy bears riding a google wave under a blanket or something
Oh, I get it. Its a vagina...
whats it about
fedoras are ghey
I don't know what's worse, the fact that I'm looking forward to reading this, or the fact that I find the cover 'art' amusing.
wtf is with the guy's hair...
T-Lin, couldn’t your answer here just be a furtherance of the ruse, though? I wish I knew the truth. But I guess it doesn’t matter. Because maybe we’re getting into Baudrillard-style simulacra territory. But maybe that’s what you’re trying to do. Damn it.
just chill and enjoy the bro's writing if you like it broski, why's it always gotta be about the money
there is public interest in the title, but perhaps not giving an explanation of it could pique curiosity, or rather, sustain curiousity.
description of novel sounds complicated, again, looking forward to it
@brittanywallace sweet
@BenRosamond sweet
@zzellers sweet
@MichaelRubin sweet
@mi sweet
@ChrisMoran sweet
@david fishkind sweet
@clarifiedconfusion sweet
@ErikStinson sweet
@Anonymous sweet
@shanekoury sweet
@elise sweet/'kelly blair @ melville house'
@JordanCastro sweet
@JimAshilevi sweet
@RachelR sweet
@thomas sweet
@AndrewJamesWeatherhead sweet
@Chase sweet
@JS sweet
@JonnyRoss sweet
@gadzooks sweet
@Anonymous bro...
@Kelsey sweet
@Anonymous#1 sweet
@butts sweet
@Anonymous#1 i've 'netted' something like $23k in ~5 years from my writing (~$35k including this; one can read more re this in some of my interviews), i've 'definitely' made more money, in my life, from working part-time jobs in restaurants and libraries and as a personal assistant and selling art on ebay; i've perhaps made something like $1.5/hour from writing ('wild estimate') and something like an average of $12/hour from doing other things; i post this comment, in part, to not discourage potential customers/'supporters of the arts' re the tao lin store/muumuu house store, i feel that in the long-term my writing will 'net' me more per hour than $12
@Anonymous#1 sweet
@AndrewJamesWeatherhead sweet/damn
@JimmyChen sweet
@vanjulio sweet
@Anonymous sweet
@Anonymous bro...
@jessev sweet
@Anonymous sweet
@Elise sweet
@DonBroma sweet
@chinchillakwak sweet
@Anonymous sweet
@Anonymous sweet
@Anonymous sweet
@Anonymous sweet
@GlenBinger sweet
@marshall "Richard Yates" is a uniquely suspenseful "page turner" of a novel linearly conveying the story of a secret romantic relationship between two “severely depressed”/”cripplingly alienated” but creative and ultimately playful humans, ages 22 and 16, who, in part, "via" years of loneliness and disappointment and confusion re "society"/"other people," have naturally and independently learned to operate "outside" of society's influence, in a world mostly w/o taboo/rules/preconceptions except those they have, with confusion, and perhaps unsustainably, created themselves, to excruciating and ultimately emotionally powerful results, as their societally/socially "cloistered" relationship becomes increasingly extreme, their behaviors increasingly out-of-control, and their level of contact w/ society (in the form of the 16-year-old's mother) increasingly "intimate."
@anonymous sweet
@anonymous sweet
@anonymous sweet
@anonymous sweet
@clarifiedconfusion sweet
@t-lin: sweet
intrigued by description in comments, reminds me of 'hikikomori' except less 'magical realist' maybe and 'more developed' maybe
'can't wait'
will familiarity with richard yates's 'oeuvre' be expected / useful?
I await this eagerly.
your work, for me, has an addictive quality. If there is a zeitgeist for people like me, then I think it is represented in your work.
Though zeitgeist sounds like too grandiose a term for my predicament.
The Best Prank EVER
One day me and my friend didnt like this girl so we decided to prank call her but it wasnt pretty because her mom answered the phone and we hung up on her!!! she got really MAD!!!and wasnt happy.the next day we told our friend and she told her mom and didnt want to be friends with her so we were mean to her!!! REALLY MEAN!!!
The latest anonymous post is awesome.
Anonymous posts are awesome.
Leaving a post without allowing it to be traced back to anything connected to anything relating to your identity is awesome.
Tao lin is awesome.
Blogging is awesome.
The Psycho-Social, Chemical, Biological, And Electro-Magnetic Manipulation Of Human Consciousness is awesome (just writing that because it's playing on my stereo while I write this).
Being drunk is awesome.
If only Tao Lin could make more money blogging, then he could blog more, then we wouldn't have to spend our time leaving comments on a post that's more than four days old.
I'm really looking forward to this. Though I suggest you give the cover design a little more thought.
i too like anonymous posts
@Tao damn
Tao said:
>"Richard Yates" is a uniquely suspenseful "page turner" of a novel linearly conveying the story of a secret romantic relationship between two “severely depressed”/”cripplingly alienated” but creative and ultimately playful humans, ages 22 and 16, who, in part, "via" years of loneliness and disappointment and confusion re "society"/"other people," have naturally and independently learned to operate "outside" of society's influence, in a world mostly w/o taboo/rules/preconceptions except those they have, with confusion, and perhaps unsustainably, created themselves, to excruciating and ultimately emotionally powerful results, as their societally/socially "cloistered" relationship becomes increasingly extreme, their behaviors increasingly out-of-control, and their level of contact w/ society (in the form of the 16-year-old's mother) increasingly "intimate."
so it's another book about you and Ellen Kennedy?
The covers of your books keep getting better, bro. This one seems pretty professional and sweet.
Also, your books are 'dominating' Australian bookstores right now + I saw somebody walking around uni wearing an "I Am Carles" t-shirt modified to say "I Am Tao Lin". That's when it really hit home that you're now a 'household name'. Congrats.
Congratulations, Tao Lin. I read your first book and it was good. I don't really understand why so many people write almost exactly like you in this community of writers. They seem to be missing something. Like themselves a little maybe.
You seem to be very good at assimilating parts of your real self into a semi-fictional persona that people latch onto, occasionally mimicking.
Perhaps you should 'break' the 'news.'
man. what a good image.
I'm really excited for this Tao. The cover is suggestive in my mind but in a way that is thought-provoking--keep it, don't listen to what anyone else is saying.
cover seems like a goatse
For some reason this cover fills me with an unsettling horror, but I'm still excited for the book.
Dear Tao Lin:
You are going to be in Philadelphia in about a week and I wrote a poem after reading your stuff. I'd like to share with you the poem and hopefully we can talk when you're here. My email is gregbem@gmail.com!
Cheerz!
Greg
@anonymous sweet
@matthew interesting/sweet, 'no' re 'richard yates ouevre'
@l.a. sweet
@anonymous sweet
@don sweet
@anonymous sweet/'damn'
@anonymous sweet
@anonymous sweet
@anonymous yes re 'about,' 'unsure' re 'another'
@connor sweet
@sarah sweet
@jk sweet
@anonymous sweet
@thelobster sweet
@gregory sweet
@TaoLin from @marshall The plot sounds like my life from the last three years...sort of.
I'm more interested in the fact that the first time I saw the cover I immediately thought of a number of things:
1. A vagina
2. Goatse.cz
3. Who is that man?
4. Richard Yates
I'm anticipating this book.
When I first saw the cover I thought maybe it was the man tearing his own face off, or tearing the face off the photo of himself. Sort of like tearing off wallpaper. Like the wallpaper in the background. Did that make sense? Would that make it meta? Is what I just wrote ekphrastic?
When I looked at the bigger picture, I saw it was just a conch (pronounced 'conk', or 'konk' - did you know that?) and then I got it. I got the conch.
seems like an excellent cover and a fantastic novel
My five year old just looked over my shoulder and said "That man got "konked" on the nose with a shell. Irony?
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