On February 25 Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, predicted Taipei would be Lin's "breakout" book, calling it "a novel about disaffection that's oddly affecting" and noting that "for all its emotional reality, Taipei is a book without an ounce of self-pity, melodrama, or posturing."īret Easton Ellis tweeted praise for the novel soon after its release. 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. Along the way-whether 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 Ohio-movies 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. 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. Taipei by Tao Lin is an ode-or lament-to the way we live now. The description on the back of the advance galleys, distributed in early January and notably including prescription pill bottles containing candy, stated: It will be interesting to see what the cover looks like on a physical copy." Summary Thought Catalog, in an article titled "The Cover For Tao Lin's New Novel Looks Sweet," wondered how it would appear: "The version online is a shiny gif. The article did not comment on the cover, except to say that it was "shiny".
Related: I don't view my memory as accurate or static-and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality-so "autobiographical", to me, is closer in meaning to "fiction" than "autobiography." It's less difficult because I don't need to write a 25,000-page first draft it's already there, in some form, as my memory. Writing autobiographically is more difficult because I'm editing a massive first draft of maybe 25,000 pages-my memory-into a 250-page novel. The article also included an interview with Lin, who said, of the autobiographical nature of the book: On February 1, 2013, Entertainment Weekly debuted the cover. Lin's agent, Bill Clegg, brokered the deal with editor Tim O'Connell based on "a 5000-word excerpt and a ~3-page outline." Cover On August 15, 2011, The New York Observer reported that Lin had sold his third novel, then titled Taipei, Taiwan, to Vintage. I still want to intern for Jezebel.Taipei is a 2013 novel by Tao Lin. I only suggested lurking around the outside of the building and peppering the street with stickers, the door was his idea. Instead of being the Gawker intern who had to scrape Britney Spears stickers off the Gawker door, I was the intern telling Tao to put his stickers around your office. Instead of interning for Jezebel I am now linked on Gawker. In may when my spring semester at school ended I shipped out. I left a comment on his blog, can I be your intern, he replied, yes. I did not write a cover letter or send a resume. Tao seemed less discriminating than the gal gab blog, he was drafting interns in bulk for his army. I decided a militant poet might be a good person to intern for. Shortly after I started reading his blog the infamous Tao Lin Intern Uprising occurred. I had been reading Tao´s blog actively since February. I sent several follow up emails and got a pleasant thank you note from the team for applying, but nothing serious transpired. Sometime in April, Jezebel posted a wanted ad for interns. I even like the blogs about porn and Silicon Valley. So, what should we do? Read the email after the jump and weigh in on this crucial Matter of the Youngs. It was her idea for Tao to lurk outside our offices and put his stupid Britney Spears stickers everywhere! But, she says, she'd still like to intern here, specifically at our ladyblog Jezebel. And one of the investors was Tao's own intern! It seems that said lass, detailed in an email sent to us today, had ambitions of working here, at humble old Gawker Media. Yesterday we posted about gimmick-crazed "writer" Tao Lin, who recently raised $12,000 in investors' money for a book that doesn't even exist is "95% finished," according to Tao.
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