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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30 June 10
I will mail you 4-10 “Richard Yates* stickers” if you live in North America and email binky.tabby [at] gmail.com your address.  My publisher will mail you a “Richard Yates review copy” (or PDF if you live in a foreign country) if you email nathan [at] mhpbooks.com your address and information about the venue (not your blog or Amazon) that you will be reviewing the book or interviewing me, or whatever, for and it seems legitimate (I have no review copies; if I had more money and unlimited review copies I would mail anyone a review copy; I would probably “just”/”simply” mail anyone $20 bills or [whatever you wanted, to a certain degree] if my money exceeded a certain amount that it currently isn’t exceeding, currently it isn’t exceeding $0.00 in “net” terms; thank you for your time/consideration).
*Richard Yates is “Tao Lin’s second novel,” ~55,500 words of such mainstreamly/conventionally “socially relevant” topics as “cutting,” eating disorders, statutory rape, dysfunctional families, reckless shoplifting, “mental disorders,” “biofeedback,” and psychotherapy within a “page-turner-ish,” linear, focused, journalistic narrative featuring such non-mainstream elements, some might say, as “unyieldingly concrete/literal prose style,” “lack of authorial rhetoric (except, arguably, on the structural or stylistic level, though in those cases the rhetoric would be implied, in the manner of a ‘side-effect,’ to some degree, and  only vaguely rhetorical),” “intensely/preconceptionlessly quirky/’weird’/cutesy, to varying degrees, at times, dialogue,” “an overall ‘non-sequiturish,’ ‘messageless’ quality impervious to certain kinds of book reviews and certain kinds of ways to discuss ‘literature,’” and “[other elements].”
(photo by Noah Kalina)

I will mail you 4-10 “Richard Yates* stickers” if you live in North America and email binky.tabby [at] gmail.com your address.

My publisher will mail you a “Richard Yates review copy” (or PDF if you live in a foreign country) if you email nathan [at] mhpbooks.com your address and information about the venue (not your blog or Amazon) that you will be reviewing the book or interviewing me, or whatever, for and it seems legitimate (I have no review copies; if I had more money and unlimited review copies I would mail anyone a review copy; I would probably “just”/”simply” mail anyone $20 bills or [whatever you wanted, to a certain degree] if my money exceeded a certain amount that it currently isn’t exceeding, currently it isn’t exceeding $0.00 in “net” terms; thank you for your time/consideration).

*Richard Yates is “Tao Lin’s second novel,” ~55,500 words of such mainstreamly/conventionally “socially relevant” topics as “cutting,” eating disorders, statutory rape, dysfunctional families, reckless shoplifting, “mental disorders,” “biofeedback,” and psychotherapy within a “page-turner-ish,” linear, focused, journalistic narrative featuring such non-mainstream elements, some might say, as “unyieldingly concrete/literal prose style,” “lack of authorial rhetoric (except, arguably, on the structural or stylistic level, though in those cases the rhetoric would be implied, in the manner of a ‘side-effect,’ to some degree, and only vaguely rhetorical),” “intensely/preconceptionlessly quirky/’weird’/cutesy, to varying degrees, at times, dialogue,” “an overall ‘non-sequiturish,’ ‘messageless’ quality impervious to certain kinds of book reviews and certain kinds of ways to discuss ‘literature,’” and “[other elements].”

(photo by Noah Kalina)

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