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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10 December 11
“ The movie had a message. It told me to enjoy my life while I was alive. ‘I know,’ I said to the movie.
— Tao Lin, “April” (via you are a little bit happier than i am)

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27 November 11
“ People were always talking about getting a life, as if there were a store and it was just a matter of going there, picking one out. […] in his sleepier moments, he believed in this store, understood that it was in Europe somewhere, or else deep in Russia. One of those two places. He’d sometimes wake up sad because the store was so far away. Why did it have to be so far away?
— Tao Lin, Bed (via madamepsychosis)

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13 November 11
Leah Garaas graphed her life in the style/format of 2009’s “tao lin’s development as a human being”

Leah Garaas graphed her life in the style/format of 2009’s “tao lin’s development as a human being”

4 November 11
“ Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was true—life wasn’t supposed to be incredible, after all. Life wasn’t some incredible movie. Life was all the movies, ever, happening at once. There were good ones, bad ones, some went straight to video.
— Bed by Tao Lin (via thechocolatebrigade)

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Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh