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"Taipei is exactly the kind of book I hoped Tao Lin would one day write. He is one of the few fiction..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:54:42 -0500

“Taipei is exactly the kind of book I hoped Tao Lin would one day write. He is one of the few fiction writers around who engages with contemporary life, rather than treating his writing online as existing in opposition to or apart from the hallowed analogue space of the novel. He’s consistently good for a few laughs and writes in a singular style already much imitated by his many sycophants on the internet. Some people like Tao Lin for solely these reasons, or treat him as a sort of novelty or joke. But Lin can also produce the feelings of existential wonder that all good novelists provoke.”

- Emily Witt re Tao Lin’s Taipei

http://shabbydollhouse.com/A-Hallmark

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:13:18 -0500

http://shabbydollhouse.com/A-Hallmark:

jamesganas:

http://shabbydollhouse.com/A-Hallmark

my story ‘a hallmark’ is in the summer issue of shabby doll house. this is the first time i’ve had a story published anywhere so i am very excited

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:12:31 -0500

mellowpageslibrary: Me and Stephen getting borderline:...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:23:08 -0500

mellowpageslibrary:

Me and Stephen getting borderline: porn/fukt http://bit.ly/14H3Lgt

i asked Jacob Perkins to be in the photo with me =)

Lucy Tiven, Moon Temple, and Megan Boyle at Mellow Pages last...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:22:31 -0500

Lucy Tiven, Moon Temple, and Megan Boyle at Mellow Pages last nite

usart: Lena Henke at Neuer Aachener Kunstverein Illustrations...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:02:29 -0500

usart:

Lena Henke at Neuer Aachener Kunstverein

Illustrations by Blaise Larmee

ahecho: UM yA

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:01:12 -0500

ahecho:

UM
yA

_: if you look at the high-rise apartment on the waterfront

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:00:56 -0500

_: if you look at the high-rise apartment on the waterfront:

ahecho:

you will notice a planter on every ledge
each balcony has a grill
each window has a curtain
each living room has a recliner
someone left the kitchen light on
someone left the blinds down
someone has a telescope
someone likes keroppi
maybe there are children on the 8th floor, 5th balcony…

liefplus: legendary status update by michael hessel-mial,...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:56:17 -0500

liefplus:

legendary status update by michael hessel-mial, december 2011 :)

liefplus: that didnt take long, my selfies r in MoMA. thanks to...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:56:01 -0500

liefplus:

that didnt take long, my selfies r in MoMA. thanks to joe pearson for the photo

"A genius is perhaps someone who can see what is invisible to most humans, someone who uses their..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:55:45 -0500

“A genius is perhaps someone who can see what is invisible to most humans, someone who uses their exceptionally fast mental-computer and self-discipline to solve problems people didn’t know could be solved, someone who reaches out and pulls back something totally alien and shares it with the rest of us, making it familiar.”

- Heiko Julien (via captaincoolasfuck)

heiko julién: I have been experimenting with social media for over a year now as a...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:54:08 -0500

heiko julién: I have been experimenting with social media for over a year now as a...:

heikojulien:

I have been experimenting with social media for over a year now as a way to share my work and communicate with people who will listen and to whom I like to listen to. As I get ready to print and sell a book of everything I’ve worked on over this time, I am compelled to reflect on what it…

INTERNET PEOPLE IRL: governors ball: willis, mud, gabby, kanye, 'fuck the police', lucy

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:51:22 -0500

INTERNET PEOPLE IRL: governors ball: willis, mud, gabby, kanye, 'fuck the police', lucy :

internetpeopleinreallife:

on our way to day 1 of governors ball. it’s raining. willis is eating a sandwich

people walking in the shitty weather to governors ball

waiting in line for governors ball. the weather is shitty as you can see

willis making the best of it

local natives. they performed…

I like PeterBd a lot

liefplus: gifs from my video LIEF IS BEAUTFUL :) :) thank...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:48:36 -0500

liefplus:

gifs from my video LIEF IS BEAUTFUL :) :) thank u amina

"April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:48:20 -0500

“April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.”

- Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka (via delicateswans)

19841979: Sarah Weinman (~190k followers on Twitter) is...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:48:10 -0500

19841979:

Sarah Weinman (~190k followers on Twitter) is Publishers Marketplace’s news editor. I don’t know what the first sentence of her tweet references. I think many who read it will passively decide to avoid my books (understandably, I feel, given the information’s source and that it’s stated like common knowledge) and view me as distrustful.

Earlier I was thinking: What if I had kids to support? What if something happens to someone in my family resulting in huge medical bills? What if, due to intermittent libel the next fifteen years, I’m unable, for example, to financially support my parents, or my own family? I’d probably feel very angry toward Sarah Weinman’s tweet, which seems 100% untrue and, if unchallenged, will probably negatively affect (1) my long-term financial situation (2) the level of equality/”fairness” in the world.

Based on what I know about her I think Sarah Weinman (like me and most people I know in publishing) probably would support greater equality/”fairness” in the world.

I feel like I’ve read so much libel (false, unsupported statements that damage an individual’s reputation or financial status) recently, almost exclusively by those in positions of greater power and influence than their targets, that I want to discuss this specific instance with Sarah Weinman in like a Gmail chat, or at least “call her out” on it.

As news editor of “the trade’s biggest newsletter/website” her tweet is maybe equivalent to a New York Times article that reads in entirety: “The restaurant Pure Food and Wine has been running a long con for years. So of course you’d be upset if you ate dinner there. [link to review by someone who disliked the restaurant].”

Go here if you want to raise awareness on this and maybe influence Sarah Weinman into an earnest discussion with me about her tweet.

An effect of top-down libel is that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, I think. Based on what I’ve read by her I think Sarah Weinman would not support that.

Relevant links: previous fact-checking post

mellowpageslibrary: Megan Boyle reading a live blog not live...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:47:49 -0500

mellowpageslibrary:

Megan Boyle reading a live blog not live http://bit.ly/11kqNsQ

Tao Lin Tumblr Presence: forthcoming readings/events re Taipei6.17 Seattle WA—Elliott Bay Book...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:56:03 -0500

Tao Lin Tumblr Presence: forthcoming readings/events re Taipei6.17 Seattle WA—Elliott Bay Book...:

19841979:

forthcoming readings/events re Taipei

6.17 Seattle WA—Elliott Bay Book Company, 7PM, reading/Q&A
6.18 Portland OR—Powell’s, 7PM, reading/Q&A
6.19 San Francisco CA—Booksmith, 7:30PM conversation with Jesse Nathan (McSweeney’s)
6.20 Los Angeles CA—Skylight Books, 7:30PM …

"If I could get all the text messages and emails that I will receive during my life right now there..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:53:55 -0500

“If I could get all the text messages and emails that I will receive during my life right now there would be no more questions and I could move on.”

- Brandon Scott Gorrell (via quotecatalog)

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:52:42 -0500