Tao Lin explore les thèmes de l'aliénation et de la transformation, examinant souvent l'impact de la technologie et des substances psychédéliques sur la psyché humaine. Son style est minimaliste et observationnel, capturant des sentiments de détachement et la recherche de sens dans le monde moderne. La prose de Lin reflète une génération agitée naviguant dans un paysage de plus en plus complexe et connecté. Son œuvre invite à la réflexion sur l'authenticité et la quête de connexion à l'ère numérique.
Exploring the intersection of psychedelic drugs, literature, and personal alienation, this book combines memoir, history, and journalistic investigation. It offers a fresh perspective on the cultural impact of psychedelics, reminiscent of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, while delving into the author's unique experiences and insights as a leading voice in contemporary literature.
Richard Yates is named after real-life writer Richard Yates, but it has nothing to do with him. Instead, it tracks the rise and fall of an illicit affair between a very young writer and his even younger--in fact, under-aged--lover. As he seeks to balance work and love, she becomes more and more self-destructive in a play for his undivided attention. His guilt and anger builds in response until they find themselves hurtling out of control and afraid to let go.
At some point, maybe twenty minutes after he'd begun refreshing Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Gmail in a continuous cycle - with an ongoing, affectless, humorless realisation that his day 'was over' - he noticed with confusion, having thought it was early morning, that it was 4:46PMTaipei is an ode - or lament - to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan's art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family's roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into an unexpected wedding in Las Vegas.From one of this generation's most talked-about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal and uncompromising novel about memory, love, and what it means to be alive.
Set mostly in Manhattan—although also featuring Atlantic City, Brooklyn, GMail Chat, and Gainsville, Florida—this autobiographical novella, spanning two years in the life of a young writer with a cultish following, has been described by the author as “A shoplifting book about vague relationships,” “2 parts shoplifting arrest, 5 parts vague relationship issues,” and “An ultimately life-affirming book about how the unidirectional nature of time renders everything beautiful and sad.” From VIP rooms in hip New York City clubs to central booking in Chinatown, from New York University’ s Bobst Library to a bus in someone’s backyard in a college-town in Florida, from Bret Easton Ellis to Lorrie Moore, and from Moby to Ghost Mice, it explores class, culture, and the arts in all their American forms through the funny, journalistic, and existentially-minded narrative of someone trying to both “not be a bad person” and “find some kind of happiness or something,” while he is driven by his failures and successes at managing his art, morals, finances, relationships, loneliness, confusion, boredom, future, and depression.
"A bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives-as an artist, a son, and a perpetual tourist-and transform his personal chaos into a triumphant new novel In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn't know it yet, but he will put his life on hold-year after year-to make this trip, chronicling everything that transpires before him. Just as he flits in and out of sobriety, relationships, and drafts of a new book, he will fly between these worlds in hopes of keeping his family together. He will temper arguments, console his parents, and try to understand what it means to find success both as an artist and a son. But how to fit these pieces of his life together? Where to begin? In Leave Society, Tao Lin delivers an engrossing novel about the life, fiction, and where the two blur together. Exploring everyday events and scenes-waiting rooms, dog walks, family meals-Lin spins the ordinary into something monumental, and shows what it is to write a novel in real time. Illuminating and deeply felt, Leave Society is a masterly novel about family and the self"-- Provided by publisher
In 'Richard Yates' erzählt Tao Lin von einer verbotenen Liebe zwischen einem jungen Autor und einer minderjährigen Schülerin, die sich im Internet unter Pseudonymen kennenlernen. Während der Autor versucht, Arbeit und Liebe zu balancieren, wird die Schülerin zunehmend selbstzerstörerisch. Lin polarisiert mit seinen oft schmutzigen, treffenden Beschreibungen der Jugend.
Andrew ist Pizzabote bei Domino’s Pizza, aber das ist er nicht gerne. Andrew lebt in Orlando, Florida, aber dort lebt er nicht gerne. Andrew träumt von Sara, einem Mädchen, mit dem er in New York ein einziges Date hatte. Seitdem hat er sie nicht wiedergesehen. Trotzdem ist Sara wohl die wichtigste Person in seinem Leben. Außer Steve vielleicht, seinem besten Freund, dessen Mutter bei einem Flugzeugabsturz ums Leben kam. Und dann sind da noch die Tiere, die Delfine, Bären, Hamster und Elche. Verwirrte intelligente Tiere, die versuchen, sich mit verwirrten intelligenten Menschen wie Andrew zu verständigen.
