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Tao Lin
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May 2007
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Taipei
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2013
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30 editions
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Shoplifting from American Apparel
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2009
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10 editions
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Eeeee Eee Eeee
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2007
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13 editions
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Richard Yates
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2010
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10 editions
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Leave Society
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2021
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Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change
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2018
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4 editions
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Bed
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2007
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6 editions
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You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am
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2006
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3 editions
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
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2008
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7 editions
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Today the Sky is Blue and White With Bright Blue Spots and a Small Pale Moon and I Will Destroy Our Relationship Today
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2006
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“Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?”
― Shoplifting from American Apparel
― Shoplifting from American Apparel
“There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at.”
― Eeeee Eee Eeee
― Eeeee Eee Eeee
“sad things are beautiful only from a distance
therefore you just want to get away from them
from a distance of one hundred and thirty years
....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful”
― this emotion was a little e-book
therefore you just want to get away from them
from a distance of one hundred and thirty years
....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful”
― this emotion was a little e-book
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“If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.”
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“What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others...”
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“...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.”
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“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
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Thanks for adding us, Tao! Did you know we published a book by Richard Yates daughter, Gina Yates (Narcissus Nobody)? Would love to hear about any new projects you have in the works that might be a good fit for Three Rooms Press.
Sarah wrote: "Tao Lin, do you know Deb Olin Unferth? I have taken a couple of classes with her...I think she mentioned you in class...something about talking to your girlfriend's mother?"yes, i like deb
Bamboo wrote: "Were you at Bobst library yesterday (Thursday the 4th) in a pink shirt? "maybe
Letters wrote: "I read your books 'Richard Yates', 'Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy', and 'Shoplifting in American Apparel'. They were pretty good books."sweet
I read your books 'Richard Yates', 'Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy', and 'Shoplifting in American Apparel'. They were pretty good books.
Thanks for accepting me as your friend. WOW... You have so many friends and if I get lucky a couple of them might be interested in reading "The Little Black Fish" translated by Ruby Emam.
Have fun in Germany! I hope you have a better experience than the food than Snoop and his family did. That is reality t.v. knowledge I am sharing with you. I think it's like sharing reality knowledge with you. Just a little more displacement. Tell them you are a dissident and that the U.S. treats you horribly and maybe Europeans will feel bad and give you things free. Since they like hate us. Again.
Talk to you soon...http://www.billhazelgrove.comhttp://www.amazon.com/review/product/...
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Best Book of 2008... San Antonio Express
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.What We Talk About When We Talk About Love?PLZ Answer The Question In My Profile.
that's for allowing me to be your friend! thanks sweetie!
holy toe-lee-doh!okay
I found this really trippy:
I was in the bookstore where I work flipping through a catalog of books-
and before my eyes I see a book entitled "eeeee eee eeee" which is weird because the name of my solo project is called eeeeeeee(myspace.com/ebojnowski) and everyone makes fun of my name. so I decided I had to order the book and I am reading it now and it totally embodies my eeeeeeee philosophies.
so ... thanks.
Were you at Bobst library yesterday (Thursday the 4th) in a pink shirt?
Hey,I saw your book at the Union Square B & N, and I was like HEY I know him. Just thought I'd send you a shout.
I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me yesterday. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.Argh...this is terrible...
Again, I'm very sorry.
-Jeremy
I like your userpic very much, but I am disappointed that you don't look like it.
Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats. -Jeremy :)
P.S.—I’m currently offering autographed/personally-inscribed copies of my novel, Vacation, with free shipping for those in the US. If there’s anything you could do to help me spread the word about this, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to click here for details:
http://hauntedhousedressing.com/signe...
Hi Tao!Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.
-Jeremy :)
Hi Tao!If you don't mind sharing--I was wondering, what's your favorite novel of all time? Or novels?
Here’s wishing you a fantastic day filled with fabulous friendships, fanciful festivities, and frolicking phantom footstools.
-Jeremy :)
Hey, I came across the interview of you in Giant Robot... I'll be sure to check out your books sometime!
Loved EEE. We should do a little animated thing sometime soon!
Hmmm, I liked E.E.E., especially my signed copy...supercool, thank you. I simply have a slight preference for the collection of stories in Bed and so gave Bed 5 and E.E.E. 4 stars...maybe others felt the same way. And (a more cynical view), maybe the higher rating reflect something of the need for shorter doses of what you prescribe...perhaps they reflect our diminishing attention-span.Whatever it is, keep up the wonderful writing!
eeeee eee eeee is getting shit on.bed is doing good.
the poetry book is doing good.
good is good
I had to do the four star thing because her second book was just better.
thank you for signing my books. i enjoyed your reading @ 21 grand last night. i liked when you laughed while reading your story.
Hi Tao. I have your two new books on my table.
hi. the two copies have been given to alien and megan.i liked your bird addition. thank you.
So, did I win a copy of e.e.e? And what did you think of what I did to your bird?https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blo...
:-)
the next two people who message me their address i will send e.e.e. with drawings insidei wrote the kung fu book in 9th grade, i don't like it anymore but i'm not going to deny i wrote it
Tao, I think you should send a free copy of Eeeee Eee Eeee to all your friends on Goodreads, ...especially me. :-) Happy Birthday! Note: You must find it somewhat amusing to be credited on Goodreads with having written a chinese language exercise manual called Kung Fu. Ni keyi shuo zhongguo hua ma?
you drew me a squid thinking about richard nash at BEA. hello!
the word on the street is that you are going to be in oakland sometime in late july. is this true? i am so there.
your tiny sideways face picture with hand and moustache (?) is freaking me out. i hope you aren't getting fake money for those fake jobs.
i haven't forgotten to book you, incidentally. i think you'll go in january since you want to be with stobb? that's his available date. otherwise, i can book you before then if you like, providing your fake schedule doesn't get in the way. please let me know your preference, o exercise master (how has that not been rated yet?)~
why not a fake one then?
Several. Why don't you?
Thanks!Shouldn't you be in bed about now?
I was born July 10, 1955
i saw your books at the bookstore today!
Wait, are you suggesting someone on goodreads (or any social site for that matter) is adding peeople to their friends list . . . randomly!? (gasp) Kick me in the head if I'm wrong, but isn't that what 90% of people on these sites do? Susie, Ryan, be honest - did you take everyone on your friends list out for a cup of coffee, share memories from middle-school, and offer to walk their dog before you added them? My guess is no.
So the dude's asked everyone and his brother to be his friend. Everyone on the list (including you) said yes, so it doesn't seem like anyone is really hurting too much, now are they?
Relax. Go rate a book or organize your shelves.
Tao Lin, do you know Deb Olin Unferth? I have taken a couple of classes with her...I think she mentioned you in class...something about talking to your girlfriend's mother?
I don't know Tao or any of his friends (well, the 30 or so I looked at out of 882) in any sense whatsoever, and when he invited me to be his friend I thought 'cool, it's always good to make random new friends.' Then I saw he was a budding author, and the throbbing cynicsm within lead me to surmise that he's using goodreads.com to drop excerpts and then invite lots of potential book-buying 'friends'. Surely that's not the case. Say it ain't so Tao, say it ain't so.
hi. are you aware that you're dead?
The Tao of Tao is O.K. by me. Thanks!
what it is, brother?
i like friends.
i also think tao is adding everyone, but I think that is because he actually wants to be everybody's friend.hey tao,
I will be in brooklyn this summer. can i crash on your couch?
