Tao Lin (b. 1983) is the author of Richard Yates (2010), Shoplifting from American Apparel (2009), Bed (2007), three other books.

His third novel will be published by Vintage in 2013.

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9 May 10
- “2x hamster swimming at ~4:30 am in the giant swimming pool (~5% pictured) of the mansion they’ve been ‘squatting’ (to some degree of the conventional slang-meaning of the word) in for 13 weeks (after escaping from a 10-gallon fishtank in an adjacent mansion’s 8-year-old girl’s 1st-floor bedroom) because due to their size they can ‘pretty easily’ hide whenever they ‘sense’ that a human being is near and also the new mansion has no cats or dogs and is ‘very messy, with “piles of clothes” “in range” in almost every room and hallway’ and there seems to always be fresh Wendy’s or Arby’s leftovers in the private movie theatre in the basement where also it’s almost always dark to a degree that you can’t see a hamster even if it’s ‘walking around’ idly’” by Tao Lin

- “2x hamster swimming at ~4:30 am in the giant swimming pool (~5% pictured) of the mansion they’ve been ‘squatting’ (to some degree of the conventional slang-meaning of the word) in for 13 weeks (after escaping from a 10-gallon fishtank in an adjacent mansion’s 8-year-old girl’s 1st-floor bedroom) because due to their size they can ‘pretty easily’ hide whenever they ‘sense’ that a human being is near and also the new mansion has no cats or dogs and is ‘very messy, with “piles of clothes” “in range” in almost every room and hallway’ and there seems to always be fresh Wendy’s or Arby’s leftovers in the private movie theatre in the basement where also it’s almost always dark to a degree that you can’t see a hamster even if it’s ‘walking around’ idly’” by Tao Lin

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