Tao Lin’s new novel, “Taipei,” is more obviously autobiographical than previous efforts — about a young, male, Asian American New York urbanite and social-media compulsive paralyzed by a ...

Tao Lin said second semester of his freshman year at N.Y.U., after his writing teacher, “a graduate student named Kristen something,” encouraged him and he read Lorrie Moore and White Noise.

Tao Lin mentioned the documentary he and Megan were making about a local teenage fashion blogger and model. “We shot around six hours last night. It includes hot tub and shoplifting scenes.” ...

Filmmakers Tao Lin and Megan Boyle aren’t the first people to find causal connection in drugs and art, but they may have broken new ground in their conspicuous consumption.

Tao Lin 's promotional spam-mongering tactics have not made Gawker a fan of the author; last year the website addressed Lin, saying, "I know you're reading this.

Tao Lin is a writer living in New York City who has published three novels and various articles online. He operates Muumuu House and is the figurehead of alternative literature. In 2010, Lin published ...

Tao Lin: 'Shoplifting from American Apparel' Tao Lin: Directionless lives in a story that could end anywhere capture the inanity of human interactions By Ari Messer Oct 1, 2009 Author Tao Lin Tao Lin ...

Tao Lin replied, "Sweet. Thank you." A few minutes later, The Observer decided to write his profile of Tao Lin in Tao Lin's style. An editor came up to The Observer 's desk to check on his work.

On the day I was initially scheduled to meet up with the writer Tao Lin, I waited a full 30 minutes in a Japanese cafe in Williamsburg—uncorrected proofs of his engrossing, semi-autobiographical ...

Tao Lin: When I was growing up, in a suburb near Orlando, Florida, my family had two toy poodles: Binky (male) and Tabby (female). We bought Binky first, when I was six or seven.

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 ...

Tao Lin is best known for his minimalist, seemingly-autobiographical novels that are obsessed with surface detail (like Shoplifting from American Apparel), for making movies while high (under the ...