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Damion Searls—translator (in four languages) of “many of Europe’s greatest writers, including Proust, Rilke, Robert Walser, Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Kurt Schwitters, Peter Handke, Jon Fosse, and Nescio”; editor of a new abridged edition of Thoreau’s Journal; producer of a lost work of Melville’s; major in German philosophy at Harvard and American literature at UC Berkeley; recipient of writing and translating awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, the Netherland America Foundation, the University of California, and the Austrian, Belgian, and Dutch governments; author of some book published by Dalkey Archive—has published “Two Essays on Books by Tao Lin” in DEAR NAVIGATOR magazine.

Critics are calling the essays “blithely witty,” “philistine-proof,” and “conceptual…conceptual-ass satire, it seems…”