Bøger af Tao Lin

From one of this generation's most talked about young writers comes a novel about failed relationships, drug-induced depression, marriage, and death

”Tranceagtigt og til tider ekstremt morsomt… Lins skrift vækker minder om en tidlig Douglas Coupeland eller Bret Easton Ellis, men der foregår også noget her som er mere gennemgribende underligt, nærmest Becketiansk… Når slutningen nås i denne delikat-mærkelige novella, har Lin bedrevet en fascinerende, konsistent performance af forfatteren som Bartleby, den berømte skriver i Melvilles novella, hvis respons til alt er det anti-eksistentialistiske ”jeg vil foretrække ikke at gøre det”. Værket er minutiøst renset for narrativ ”formål”, ”karakteristik” eller noget som helst andet der ville klinge af romanmæssigt bullshit. Det der står tilbage er en attitude, en stemning, en komisk, fortvivlet forkastelse af det litterære ego” – The Guardian Tao Lin er af flere kritikere blevet beskrevet som internetgenerationens Kafka. Litterært bevæger hans skrift sig ubesværet mellem poesi, prosa, tweets, essays og opdateringer uden en hirakisk skelen til om det forgår i fysiske eller virtulle rum og uden nogen sønderlig sondren mellem, eller opdeling af, mennesket og forfatteren.Hans værker og litterære praksis er en af de centrale inspirationer for en yngre generation af poeter og forfattere, der herhjemme tæller bl.a. Caspar Eric og Victor Boy.

Part memoir, part history, part journalistic expose, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literature, and alienation from one of the twenty-first century's most innovative novelists--The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a new generation. A Vintage Original.While reeling from one of the most creative--but at times self-destructive--outpourings of his life, Tao Lin discovered the strange and exciting work of Terence McKenna. McKenna, the leading advocate of psychedelic drugs since Timothy Leary, became for Lin both an obsession and a revitalizing force. In Trip, Lin's first book-length work of nonfiction, he charts his recovery from pharmaceutical drugs, his surprising and positive change in worldview, and his four-year engagement with some of the hardest questions: Why do we make art? Is the world made of language? What happens when we die? And is the imagination more real than the universe?In exploring these ideas and detailing his experiences with psilocybin, DMT, salvia, and cannabis, Lin takes readers on a trip through nature, his own past, psychedelic culture, and the unknown.

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Winner of the 2005 December Prize. Reading Tao Lin is like looking the wrong way down Frank O'Hara's ear trumpet at a 21st century Mayakovski IM-ing Lili Brik. This book is fun, smart, manic and ecstatic; it puts on a clean shirt before it loads the gun. "YOU ARE A LITTLE BIT HAPPIER THAN I AM has the energy and oddness of a thing that is rising very fast that is not supposed to be rising, or that is supposed to be rising but for a moment you forget that, and for a moment this ordinary thing looks very strange and exciting"--Deb Olin Unferth. Tao Lin is 23 and lives in New York City. Visit his blog reader-of-depressing-books.blogspot.com.

The basis for the movie High ResolutionFrom one of this generation's most talked about andenigmatic writers comes a deeply personal, powerful, and moving novel about family, relationships, accelerating drug use, and the lingering possibility of death.Taipei by Tao Lin 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. Along the waywhether on all night drives up the East Coast, shoplifting excursions in the South, book readings on the West Coast, or ill advised grocery runs in Ohiomovies are made with laptop cameras, massive amounts of drugs are ingested, and two young lovers come to learn what it means to share themselves completely. The result is a suspenseful meditation on memory, love, and what it means to be alive, young, and on the fringe in America, or anywhere else for that matter.