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From the acclaimed author of Taipei, a bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives-artist, son, loner-as he spins the ordinary into something monumental. An engrossing, hopeful novel about life, fiction, and where the two blur together.In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn't know it yet, but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on this trip. As he flies betwe...

The inmate with a mop held back the inmate without a mop.Set mostly in Manhattan-although also featuring Atlantic City, Brooklyn, GMail Chat, and Gainsville, Florida-this autobiographical novella, spanning two years in the life of a young writer with a cultish following, has been described by the author as "A shoplifting book about vague relationships, " "2 parts shoplifting arrest, 5 parts vague relationship issues, " and "An ultimately life-...

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Part memoir, part history, part journalistic exposé, 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 ...

This book systematically discusses (a) Distributed Generation (DG), which operates in a single, stand-alone controllable system mode, and (b) the Microgrid (MG) powered by DG, along with the technical concepts, the impact on power systems, control and optimisation techniques, and their applications. It includes ten chapters that focus on the following five aspects: 1) An overview of distributed generation is introduced in Chapter One, and the ...

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...

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Paul, 25, lebt als Schriftsteller im New Yorker Stadtteil Williamsburg, und sein Leben dreht sich im Kreis. Phasen, in denen er nichts anderes tut, als seine Internetpräsenz in Endlosschleife zu aktualisieren, wechseln sich mit exzessiven Liebesabenteuern und Drogenexperimenten ab. Im Dauerrausch der Existenz treibt er nach Taipeh, zu den Wurzeln seiner Familie, und in die Arme von Erin, mit der er die vielleicht ungewöhnlichste Liebesbeziehun...

The basis for the movie High Resolution From 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 confr...

Tao Lin is the author of the novels Richard Yates and Eeeee Eee Eeee, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel, the story collection Bed, and the poetry collections cognitive-behavioral therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am. He is the founder and editor of the literary press Muumuu House. His work has been translated to twelve languages and he lives in Manhattan.www.taolin.infoFollow @tao_lin on Twitter

Impúdicamente autobiográfica y desesperadamente moderna, sobria y austera como un hermoso haiku, deliciosamente absurda y dolorosamente divertida, "Robar en American Apparel" sembró controversia y encendida polémica desde el momento de su publicación. Las hilarantes y absurdas correrías de Sam, empleado basura, aspirante a escritor, adicto a eBay, a los smoothies y a la leche de soja, le llevarán sin blanca de Pensilvania a Manhattan y de ahí ...

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Taipei is de grensverleggende autobiografische roman van het nieuwe literaire fenomeen Tao Lin. Hij vertelt het verhaal van de jonge schrijver Paul, die op zoek is naar houvast in een wereld die steeds minder zekerheden biedt. Paul woont in Brooklyn en brengt zijn tijd grotendeels door met het checken van Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr en Gmail. Hij doorbreekt de sleur door zich met volle overgave te storten op drugs, feesten en reizen naar Taiwan...

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