vice published a 'piece' by me titled 'top 10 unpublished articles of 2011'

re 10 articles i worked on in 2011 that are currently unpublished

i created an acronym, 'ufsi'

re 'unfit for social interaction' (selected coverage: thought catalog, nyu local, time, twitter, twitter bot)

vintage purchased u.s./canada rights to my third novel

for 2013 publication (selected coverage: ny observer, wall street journal, hipster runoff, galleycat, vulture, carles, the millions, impose, htmlgiant, slog, tumblr)

vice published a ~5000-word story by me titled 'relationship story'

re a relationship and listed me as an employee of the month

vice is publishing a weekly column by me titled 'drug-related photoshop art'

week 1 2,000,000mg xanax
week 2 justin bieber lsd (german, british)
week 3 fat mike in werner herzog's house (fat mike's response, new draft, fat mike's response to new draft)
week 4 pill identifier
week 5 11.8% heavier cocaine ('war on drugs'-anniversary article)
week 6 extreme close-up of a 30mg adderall
week 7 dumbledore levitating valium, adderall, seroquel
week 8 'che-rendered' harry potter (2300px)
week 9 a tyrannosaurus rex on an extremely large dose of mdma
week 10 a sea turtle killing itself with the drug that killed ol' dirty bastard
week 11 my rejected 'the new yorker' cover submission (sasha frere-jones' response, bookforum coverage)
week 12 extreme close-up of a 30mg oxycodone
week 13 tao lin retrospective at the whitney
week 14 xanax for koalas (3182px)
week 15 'large dose of mdma' halloween-costume
week 16 koala crying on trampoline
week 17 psilocybin nicolas cage
week 18 kreayshawn
week 19 world's largest xanax
week 20 gollum
week 21 party cat
week 22 cat-toad hybrid (viral activity on tumblr)
week 23 110-pound cat
week 24 fabulous cat
'b-sides'/drafts/previews: xanax octopus, pancake or steak, extraterrestrial-hugging koala, elderly koala

'ny observer' published a 'piece' by me

re the future of the novel (selected coverage: htmlgiant, full stop, the tangential, moby lives)

supplemental material is below (click to enlarge)

'thought catalog' published a 'piece' by me

re toronto memes

'thought catalog' republished a 'piece' by me

re how to give a reading on mushrooms (originally published by flaunt, video can be viewed here)

gawker reported on my 'live-tweeting' of a boltbus driver being arrested

for suspected drunk-driving (selected coverage: thought catalog, nbc, gothamist, htmlgiant, moby lives)

'thought catalog' published a 'piece' by me

re koko, the 'talking' gorilla

'thought catalog' published a 'piece' by me

re how to get married in las vegas

'thought catalog' published a 'piece' by me

re 'almost transparent blue' (1976) by ryu murakami (b. 1952)

i am blogging 6-12 times jan 17-24

at thought catalog, i will post links to each 'piece' in this blog post, here are some ideas i currently have

*update* (1) track-by-track review of neon indian's 'psychic chasms' (2) an account of sharing an ambien with a girl i met one week prior at a party (3) track-by-track review of grizzly bear's 'veckatimest' (4) how to be considerate on the internet (5) critical analysis of four shoppers in a japanese supermarket from the perspectives of their disapproving, estranged mothers (6) every time i've had sex with megan boyle (7) five low-level conspiracies jesse eisenberg should accidentally discover while alone—but content to be alone—on a seven-day bahamas cruise *update*

'thought catalog' published a 'piece' by me

re top 10 worst fruits to get blowjobs from

paper published a graph by me

re 2010/2011/'brand movement'/[other things] (view full-size, previous graph 1, previous graph 2, previous graph 3)

i am blogging 6-12 times dec. 6-10

at thought catalog, view a screenshot of ~50+ 'blogging ideas' from my gmail 'drafts' here

*update* (1) how to butter a sizzling hot ass steak (2) top 10 animals that don't have asses (3) top 10 bleakest unpublished blog posts of 2009 (4) top 10 humans to imagine making really loud whale noises (5) an account of emily gould's 'launch party' re 'and the heart says whatever' (6) what the hell is wikileaks... *update*

MDMAfilms

is an "extreme mumblecore"/"drugcore"/"emo" film/documentary/"event coverage"/production company established "16 NOV 2010" by Megan Boyle & Tao Lin. Its feature-length releases can be ordered here.

Relevant links: Vimeo, Twitter, Tumblr.

Selected coverage: Filmmaker Magazine, New York Times, indieWIRE, Thought Catalog, Les Inrocks.

'chandler levack' interviewed me ~2.5-hours/'irl' while i was 'on' mdma

re death/mushrooms/memes/goals/girls/jesus/twitter/[other things]

"selected coverage" re Richard Yates

11/26 3:AM Magazine / review
11/24 Bill Clegg / review
11/24 Vice / interview (auxiliary coverage: HTMLGIANT)
11/13 Guardian / review

11/11 American Elf / review (auxiliary coverage: Moby Lives)
10/23 National Post / review
10/20 National Post / interview
10/14 London Review of Books (full text) / review (auxiliary coverage: Moby Lives)
10/13 HTMLGIANT (part 2) / interview
10/12 HTMLGIANT (part 1) / interview
10/12 Boston Phoenix / review
9/24 New York Times Book Review / review (auxiliary coverage: Village Voice, HTMLGIANT, The Alt Report, Thought Catalog)
9/24 Boston Globe / review
9/22 The Stranger / profile (auxiliary coverage: Gawker, NY Observer, Omnivoracious, MetaFilter, Thought Catalog, The Alt Report, Seattlest, The Economist, Good) (auxiliary auxiliary-coverage: Slog, Slog)
9/22 BlackBook / profile
9/22 LA Weekly / interview
9/16 Vice / review (auxiliary coverage: Moby Lives)
9/16 It's Nice That / interview
9/14 Popmatters / review
9/11 The Atlantic / overview of selected coverage
9/09 NYU Local / NYU-related things
9/07 Village Voice / review (auxiliary coverage: Meaghan O'Connell)
9/07 Autostraddle / review
9/07 Hipster Runoff / excerpt (auxiliary coverage: Flavorpill)
9/07 Huffington Post / review
9/07 Largehearted Boy / "piece"
9/07 Bookforum / review (auxiliary coverage: Thought Catalog)
9/02 Associated Press / profile (auxiliary coverage: NY Observer, Random House, Poetry Foundation)
8/26 Time Out New York / review
8/24 Nylon / profile
8/24 Salon / profile (auxiliary coverage: NY Observer)
8/19 Interview / interview
8/17 NY Observer / profile (auxiliary coverage: Village Voice, HTMLGIANT, MetaFilter, BlackBook, reddit)

Go here for the "official site."

Other coverage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 / 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 / index / goodreads

*contest* discern what drug i'm 'on' *contest*

*update* an account of this is here *update*

*update* the answer is mushrooms, a person 'covered' this here *update*

first 5 correct answers receive richard yates free, type your answer in the comments section (1 answer per person) including 5 to 1000 words explanation, i will reveal the drug thursday 6pm pacific time



an alternate angle w/ different audio & no q&a is here, htmlgiant coverage is here

'thought catalog' published a 'piece' by me

re shoplifting from american apparel (first published in different form in coming & crying)

canteen published a 'piece' by me

re the new yorker's '20 under 40' list ostensibly, to some degree, via the prompt 'the great american ______'

'the atlantic' published an article about me

re '[w]hy is lin so polarizing?'/gawker/[other things] (auxiliary coverage: htmlgiant)

gawker published a 'piece' by me

re being arrested at nyu's bookstore for 'trespassing'