Richard Yates (Tao Lin). Buy, download and read Richard Yates ebook online in EPUB format for iPhone, iPad, Android, Computer and Mobile readers. ' Richard Yates is hilarious, menacing, and hugely intelligent. Tao Lin is a Kafka for the iPhone generation. '-Clancy Martin This is the sort of quote that brings to mind sexual favors or blackmail, because it's so hyperbolic, even for literary ass-kissing, because to call Richard Yates 'hilarious' is like calling Inception 'depressing.'
About Richard YatesIn a startling change of direction, cult favorite Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love that is his most sophisticated and mesmerizing writing yet.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.Lin’s trademark minimalism takes on a new, sharp-edged suspense here, zeroing in on a lacerating narrative like never before–until it is almost, in fact, too late.
Praise“Richard Yates is hilarious, menacing, and hugely intelligent. Tao Lin is a Kafka for the iPhone generation. He has that most important gift: it’s impossible to imagine anyone else writing like he does and sounding authentic. Yet he has already spawned a huge school of Lin imitators. As precocious and prolific as he is, every book surpasses the last. Vray for 3ds max 2010 64 bit free download with crack file. Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today.”—Clancy Martin, author of How to Sell“Richard Yates is a moving, very funny, discomforting, and heartbreakingly life-affirming meditation on extremes—extreme alienation, extreme intimacy, extreme confusion, extreme expectations—that reads like a meticulously and lovingly crafted collaboration between a weirder Ernest Hemingway and a more philosophically-minded Jean Rhys.”—James Frey“It would be easy to say that Richard Yates is Tao Lin’s best book yet.
Others have said it. Plainly, however, it’s not–Richard Yates only proves that Tao’s work, as it should, undoes any pretensions to ‘best’ or ‘worst.’”—HTMLGIANTPraise for Tao Lin’s Previous Work“Trancelike and often hilarious Lin’s writing is reminiscent of early Douglas Coupland, or early Bret Easton Ellis, but there is also something going on here that is more profoundly peculiar, even Beckettian The text is conscientiously scoured of narrative ‘purpose’, ‘characterisation’, and anything else that would smack of novelistic bullshit. What is left is an attitude, a mood, a comically despairing abandoning of literary ego.”— The Guardian“A deadpan literary trickster.”— New York Times“A revolutionary.”— The Stranger“Deeply smart, funny, and head-over-heels dedicated.”—Sam Anderson, New York Magazine“Fascinating and articulate in a way that people my age (incl.
Um, like, you know, myself) rarely are.”—Emily Gould“Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass—from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious.”—Miranda July“Tao Lin’s sly, forlorn, deadpan humor jumps off the pagehis prose retains the energy of an outlaw will delight fans of everyone from Mark Twain to Michelle Tea.”— San Francisco Chronicle“Stimulating and exciting It doesn’t often happen that a debuting writer displays not only irrepressible talent but also the ability to undermine the conventions of fiction and set off in new directions. Author Q&AHow would you summarize Richard Yates to potential readers if didn’t write it but were a publicist paid to promote it?In Richard Yates—Tao Lin’s second novel—a 22-year-old writer named Haley Joel Osment who lives in a 3-person apartment on Wall Street meets, on the internet, a 16-year-old high school student named Dakota Fanning who has had a history of involvement with older men. After talking for hundreds of hours on Gmail chat, through email, and by cell phone Haley Joel Osment travels two hours by train to visit Dakota Fanning in rural New Jersey where they sit by the Delaware River and walk around and eat Chinese food.
A Slate Best Book of the YearFrom one of this generation's most talked about and enigmatic 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 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. 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.