Comments on TAO LIN | BLOG: "selected coverage" re Richard Yates

Hola, quizás os interese saber que tenemos una col...

2011-10-17T05:14:13.771-04:00

Hola, quizás os interese saber que tenemos una colección que incluye el relato 'Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired' de Richard Yates en versión original conjuntamente con el relato 'A Small, Good Thing' de Raymond Carver.

El formato de esta colección es innovador porque permite leer directamente la obra en inglés sin necesidad de usar el diccionario al integrarse un glosario en cada página.

Tenéis más info de este relato y de la colección Read&Listen en http://bit.ly/ndSymF

Richard Yates writes good books. The "Revolut...

2011-02-28T02:17:57.429-05:00

Richard Yates writes good books. The "Revolutionary Road" was a very good book. I love this book. I love this book. I recommend to everyone.
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why did my review of ry never get promoed? i feel ...

2010-12-27T16:04:36.091-05:00

why did my review of ry never get promoed? i feel left out from the mass...you adding to my existential suffering by not including my review of ry with all the other reviews of ry...

Dooney's Cafe is an icon on Toronto's Bloo...

2010-10-29T09:43:41.416-04:00

Dooney's Cafe is an icon on Toronto's Bloor Street. It's also the name of an Internet site hosted by a group of Canadian writers, publishers, and artists.

Tao Lin came to Toronto recently, and the site published a review of Richard Yates.

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2010-10-28T16:28:02.445-04:00

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oh sweet novel dude

2010-10-27T21:47:38.727-04:00

oh sweet novel dude

i'm about halfway through this novel and i lik...

2010-10-21T22:03:28.178-04:00

i'm about halfway through this novel and i like it a lot. i gave him ~$20 or something, ~4-6 months before the novel came out cos he was broke at the time or requested money or something, i don't remember.

he said he'd personalize the novel in some way. he did. it was awesome i love it.

he seems to me, like some other people say in so many words that he is ambitious and self-promotes a lot online and is infectious.

i love it / him / i also bought SFAA from him and i love it. it was a galley and he put upside down christian crosses with googly{?) eyes.

it was awesome. i love it. i love him on twitter. people who 'hate on him' or w/e seem to me to be ignorant / they lack respect or w/e.

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I'm an old person; however, I really liked Ric...

2010-10-13T14:29:18.154-04:00

I'm an old person; however, I really liked Richard Yates & just recieved the rest of your stuff. I read some of your poems from "you are a little bit happier . . ." aloud while drinking yesterday & the other drunk old people in the room enjoyed them. When you wrote "I think Hemingway said something like that if he wanted to cause a reader to feel something his technique would be to focus on an emotion he had felt before and discern the concrete elements that caused him to feel the specific emotion, and then write those concrete elements, so that the reader would hopefully feel a similar emotion." I think you were thinking of T.S. Eliot's "objective correlative."

thank you for posting that link, gregory. i was...

2010-10-01T17:05:54.891-04:00

thank you for posting that link, gregory.

i was sad i couldn't attend, but this helps me.

Hey folks! Last night I recorded Tao Lin's re...

2010-09-27T13:57:05.486-04:00

Hey folks!

Last night I recorded Tao Lin's reading and Q and A in Seattle. Check it out!

http://penumbrae.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/tao-lin-reads-in-seattle/

charles bach, yr ny times reviewer, has a pretty f...

2010-09-25T10:39:17.061-04:00

charles bach, yr ny times reviewer, has a pretty flash web page/advertisement, complete with terrible indie rock, for his book with the dope ed hardy-ish cover. you've got to take it to the next level, tao. i think yr market is similar to the arcade fire market and you can't hope to reach that market without a next-level, interactive web experience. there's got to be a baby don draper out there in brooklyn who'd like to stick his dick into the internet and cum globs of tao lin all over the face of charles boak's webpage.

What does Charles Boch know about the accuracy of ...

2010-09-24T22:18:06.276-04:00

What does Charles Boch know about the accuracy of "what it is to be young and 'pushing' against the world"?

Does anyone know anyone who lives in Omaha, Nebras...

2010-09-24T21:30:51.142-04:00

Does anyone know anyone who lives in Omaha, Nebraska who would be friends with me? I am a chill blog bro. I am 22 years old and have a college degree. You can email me at marshall.mallicoat@gmail.com. If you don't live in Omaha but would like to email me, you can.

NYTimes book review. "[...] Yates’s name app...

2010-09-24T20:33:59.095-04:00

NYTimes book review.

"[...] Yates’s name appears both as a provocation — to showcase Lin’s quirky nature — and as an attempt at appropriation."

"Lin aspires to the emotionally devastating work that is Yates’s legacy."

"The novel’s voice is deliberately monotonous. Chats, e-mails, text messages, phone and in-person conversations — all are absorbed seamlessly into the body of Lin’s text, a smart way of portraying the world in which he’s come of age, where we’re connected all the time and, regardless of the device or medium, all forms of communication seem alike. But this perspective also betrays a blasé cynicism, one that takes distinctions and details for granted."

"[...] [H]e provides accurate, often filthy dispatches on what it is to be young and pushing against the world."

"In place of narrative momentum and escalating emotional complexity, the book offers passiveness and anomie."

"In attempting to explore boredom, Lin recreates boredom. In attempting to write about obsession, he embraces narcissism. If this was his goal, mission accomplished."

Damn. Are all book reviews in NY Times like this. I don't understand. Are those things true.

Tao Lin tried to write a book that contains no "rhetoric," I guess, but people find "rhetoric" in it anyway. If this book is a "failure" because of this, will Tao try to write a book that is somehow even less "rhetorical." Will he publish a book that is like the letter "a" repeated 250 thousand times. Will someone write a review saying that it would have been better if there were some "b"s in it towards the end. Will someone write a review saying that Tao is trying to "express the alienation" inherent in human beings born in post-industrial countries after the year 1980. Will someone say that the choice of Times New Roman is "gimmicky."

when you write do you sit on a chair in front of a...

2010-09-23T13:41:01.275-04:00

when you write do you sit on a chair in front of a table usually? or what

I want to give you a free review of _Freedom_ in e...

2010-09-17T15:09:18.359-04:00

I want to give you a free review of _Freedom_ in exchange for having provided this book to the general public, by which I mean I will accept all claims made about the following review as true, incl. judgments of quality, authorship claims, accusations of the reviewer's self-importance, whatever. Anyway, the review:

THERE ARE PEOPLE COPULATING IN AMERICA. ALSO, POLITICS.

Also, I read somewhere you have Taiwanese people in your family. Do you speak Chinese? Do you like the phrase 所谓?

just learnt from my korean friend that 'hehehe...

2010-09-11T17:32:58.146-04:00

just learnt from my korean friend that 'hehehe' is spelled like 'hihihi' in korean, 'hi' making a 'hee' sound

hi i'm a spambot, huge fan, tao can we gchat s...

2010-09-10T22:16:52.120-04:00

hi i'm a spambot, huge fan, tao can we gchat so i can tell you about exciting new opportunities

work from home growing your dick in your sleep

hi tao, i'm starting to read your book. i liv...

2010-09-10T00:38:18.137-04:00

hi tao,

i'm starting to read your book. i live 6-7 hours away from my girlfriend right now.

reading about Hayley and Dakota is making me feel lonely/sad.

i miss my dakota...

Cyberbeethoven was given the command by User(root)...

2010-09-09T09:39:30.382-04:00

Cyberbeethoven was given the command by User(root) to execute the generator program. An argument was passed to name the resulting composition Binary Symphony Seven. Currently executing learning kernels, which mapped tones, pitches and intervals of the 700+ opuses in the canonical classical works collection, would be shifted to a lower priority so that Cyberbeethoven could begin generation.
Every note in Binary Symphony Seven would be based on stochastic analysis of the corpus. Cyberbeethoven would start with a random note. Every possible note was already assigned a frequency histogram not only describing how often it appears in the corpus, but how long it is held, what instrument is used to play it, what notes precede and follow it, and what key progression probability space it occupies. Substantial leeway was afforded Cyberbeethoven, via a proprietary aesthetic engine based on affective listening norms, in chosing which p-Value would determine the next note.
By note 117, User(root) could tell there was already something amiss with Cyberbeethoven. The usual quiet hum of the eternal iterating machine had given way to an irregular drive churn. Even more strangely, after the final note (21090) was generated, Cyberbeethoven refused to send the resulting audio buffer to the sound card for play as was instructed in the program. It simply exited with code 0. As if the process of creating the work had driven it mad and now it refused to give a single listen to what was obviously in its mind a gesamtkunstwerk of genius.

I bought it on sunday and finished it yesterday (t...

2010-09-09T02:41:19.149-04:00

I bought it on sunday and finished it yesterday (tuesday). It was wonderful. I want to read all the others. I think the sparseness of your writing makes the emotional quality more real. it's kinda scary. like real life.

TAO LIN IM YOUR FAN WILL YOU GMAIL CHAT WITH ME?

2010-09-02T23:05:39.030-04:00

TAO LIN IM YOUR FAN WILL YOU GMAIL CHAT WITH ME?