The editor picked up Tao Lin’s first book of poems, you are a little bit happier than I am, from The Observer ‘s desk and started reading it. “This is really bad,” he said.

Artist and writer Tao Lin will be at Subprime, a student-run arts festival at Reed College, at 6 p.m. Thursday. He's written poetry, short stories and a novel, "Eeeee Eee Eeee." Another novel ...

Acclaimed novelist, poet, and essayist Tao Lin (“Taipei,” “Shoplifting from American Apparel”) speaks about growing as a writer, and growing his idea of himself in a book, including his latest, “ ...

Tao Lin was born in 1983, and raised in Orlando, Florida. In 2007 he published his first two works of fiction, the short story collection *Bed*, and the novel *Eeeee Eee Eeee*, simultaneously. And in ...

— Tao Lin (@tao_lin) Nov. 30, 2014 Overall, the book is entertaining and unlike anything else available in the literature world both in and out of the sphere of alt lit. Next week I explore Steve ...

Post-wunderkind New York literary staple Tao Lin has either spent or not received the majority of the $50,000 he was to receive from for Vintage/Knopf for his book Taipei, the Bret Easton Ellis-mee… ...

They publish poems on Twitter, they Instagram photos of white powders lined up on chapbooks. (The Tumblr blog Alt Lit Gossip, names Lin its “crown prince.”) ...

Tao Lin is the next big thing in urban hipster lit. At least, so say the people that read his books on the subway. “That guy is the next big thing,” announced one last fall to a stranger ...

A new Tao Lin "work" is a nice thing, even if it's basically just a disjointed series of partially-finished tweets from his "draft" folder strung together and split up over 11 pages on Western Beef.

Tao Lin is a poet, publisher, illustrator, novelist, short story writer and blogger with an acknowledged and authored past as a shoplifter. He has been called a revolutionary and a rogue, and, by ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Tao Lin's new novel is based on a true story, his own."It just started out of my life, what was happening to me," the 27-year-old author says of "Richard Yates," a novel about a ...