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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:15:40 -0400

Stephanie Georgopulos: Sweet commentary on language by commenter "Kevin S." on The Millions

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:48:48 -0400

Stephanie Georgopulos: Sweet commentary on language by commenter "Kevin S." on The Millions:

Though I disagree with much of the criticism put forward by Kiesling and other detractors of Lin, I will only address one very specific point: his use of the -y suffix.

Lin’s generation uses the -y suffix productively to turn nouns into adjectives. It’s used in conversation and allows them some…

"For people who can’t let go of received ideas of what constitutes good writing, reading this novel..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:55:16 -0400

“For people who can’t let go of received ideas of what constitutes good writing, reading this novel will be a nightmare, but they will also miss the point: the language is part of Lin’s ongoing question of what is “speech” and what is “writing,” what is sobriety and what is intoxication, and what is digital and what is real.”

- Emily Witt, nailing it. (via emilygould)

"Taipei is exactly the kind of book I hoped Tao Lin would one day write. He is one of the few fiction..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:39:00 -0400

“Taipei is exactly the kind of book I hoped Tao Lin would one day write. He is one of the few fiction writers around who engages with contemporary life, rather than treating his writing online as existing in opposition to or apart from the hallowed analogue space of the novel.”

- The Gpistolary Novel: Tao Lin’s “Taipei” by Emily Witt

19841979: readings/events re Taipei 6.17 Seattle WA—Elliott Bay Book Company, 7PM,...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:00:41 -0400

19841979:

readings/events re Taipei

6.17 Seattle WA—Elliott Bay Book Company, 7PM, reading/Q&A
6.18 Portland OR—Powell’s, 7PM, reading/Q&A
6.19 San Francisco CA—Booksmith, 7:30PM conversation with Jesse Nathan (McSweeney’s)
6.20 Los Angeles CA—Skylight Books, 7:30PM reading/Q&A
6.24 Houston TX—Brazos Bookstore, 7PM reading/Q&A
6.25 Austin TX—BookPeople, 7PM reading/Q&A
6.26 St. Paul MN—Common Good Books, 7PM reading/Q&A, conversation with Jay Gabler (The Tangential)
6.27 Manhattan NY—McNally Jackson, 7PM conversation with Christian Lorentzen (London Review of Books)
7.09 Brooklyn NY—Spoonbill & Sugartown, reading/Q&A
7.22 Brooklyn NY—BookCourt, panel with Marie Calloway, Ryan McNamara, [TK], moderated by Mike Vilensky (WSJ)

19841979: Sarah Weinman (~190k followers on Twitter) is...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:01:56 -0400

19841979:

Sarah Weinman (~190k followers on Twitter) is Publishers Marketplace’s news editor. I don’t know what the first sentence of her tweet references. I think many who read it will passively decide to avoid my books (understandably, I feel, given the information’s source and that it’s stated like common knowledge) and view me as distrustful.

Earlier I was thinking: What if I had kids to support? What if something happens to someone in my family resulting in huge medical bills? What if, due to intermittent libel the next fifteen years, I’m unable, for example, to financially support my parents, or my own family? I’d probably feel very angry toward Sarah Weinman’s tweet, which seems 100% untrue and, if unchallenged, will probably negatively affect (1) my long-term financial situation (2) the level of equality/”fairness” in the world.

Based on what I know about her I think Sarah Weinman (like me and most people I know in publishing) probably would support greater equality/”fairness” in the world.

I feel like I’ve read so much libel (false, unsupported statements that damage an individual’s reputation or financial status) recently, almost exclusively by those in positions of greater power and influence than their targets, that I want to discuss this specific instance with Sarah Weinman in like a Gmail chat, or at least “call her out” on it.

As news editor of “the trade’s biggest newsletter/website” her tweet is maybe equivalent to a New York Times article that reads in entirety: “The restaurant Pure Food and Wine has been running a long con for years. So of course you’d be upset if you ate dinner there. [link to review by someone who disliked the restaurant].”

Go here if you want to raise awareness on this and maybe influence Sarah Weinman into an earnest discussion with me about her tweet.

An effect of top-down libel is that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, I think. Based on what I’ve read by her I think Sarah Weinman would not support that.

Relevant links: previous fact-checking post

mellowpageslibrary: Megan Boyle reading a live blog not live...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:27:10 -0400

mellowpageslibrary:

Megan Boyle reading a live blog not live http://bit.ly/11kqNsQ

Q&A with Marie Calloway: Why does she write about sex? - latimes.com

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:23:33 -0400

Q&A with Marie Calloway: Why does she write about sex? - latimes.com:

mariecalloway:

My interview in the LA Times.
(I was misquoted a bit…)

I Can't Stop Reading This Review of Tao Lin's New Novel

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:20:43 -0400

I Can't Stop Reading This Review of Tao Lin's New Novel

"April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:39:14 -0400

“April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.”

- Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka (via delicateswans)

"If I could get all the text messages and emails that I will receive during my life right now there..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:45:27 -0400

“If I could get all the text messages and emails that I will receive during my life right now there would be no more questions and I could move on.”

- Brandon Scott Gorrell (via quotecatalog)

Episode 182—Emily Gould | Other People with Brad Listi

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 05:18:16 -0400

Episode 182—Emily Gould | Other People with Brad Listi

Andrew James Weatherhead (2011) relevant links: Extreme...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 05:12:58 -0400

Andrew James Weatherhead (2011)

relevant links: Extreme Close-ups of Dogs I Walk, Four Times I’ve Interacted With Justin Taylor In Real Life, Bret Easton Ellis’ First Novel

25 excerpts of Taipei by Tao Lin

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 05:06:25 -0400

25 excerpts of Taipei by Tao Lin

mythixtape: The remastered You Ruined It EP is now up at the...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:57:18 -0400

mythixtape:

The remastered You Ruined It EP is now up at the Young Family site. Dazzleships Records will be releasing it as a limited run of cassette tapes in the next month. Ordering information will be available soon. To celebrate, we will be releasing four new music videos for each of the songs on the album, solicited from some of our favorite artists + humans, in the next several weeks. There will be blood. Some of it might get on you.

"A bone in her opened up, gleaming and pale, and she held it to the light and spoke from it."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:00:22 -0400

“A bone in her opened up, gleaming and pale, and she held it to the light and spoke from it.”

- “Willing” from Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

"One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the..."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:57:50 -0400

“One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. Their sadness occurred in isolation, lurched and spazzed, sent them spinning fizzily back into empty padded corners, disconnected and alone.”

- “Willing” from Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

Tao Lin on The Moola Files (Jim Cramer coverage)

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:24:18 -0400

Tao Lin on The Moola Files (Jim Cramer coverage)

"People listen to the news only to feel reassured. Because however great the news of catastrophe they..."

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:41:24 -0400

“People listen to the news only to feel reassured. Because however great the news of catastrophe they hear, those listening are still perfectly alive. The really big news is the ultimate news announcing the end of the world, I suppose. Of course, everybody wants to hear that. For then one does not need to abandon the world alone… But as long as the news goes on, it will never get to the end. Thus news constitutes the announcement that it is still not the end of the world. The following trifle clichés are merely abridgments. Last night the greatest bombings on North Vietnam this year were carried out by B52s, but somehow you are still alive. Gas lines under construction ignited and eight persons received serious and light wounds, but you are alive and safe. Record rate of rising prices, yet you continue to live. Extinction of marine life in bays by waste products from factories, but somehow you survive everything.”

- from The Box Man, by Kobo Abe (via rebecca-bates)

"I rather think the world is like sand. The fundamental nature of sand is very difficult to grasp..."

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:39:00 -0400

““I rather think the world is like sand. The fundamental nature of sand is very difficult to grasp when you think of it in its stationary state. Sand not only flows, but this very flow is the sand.””

- Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes (via ko-morebi)