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: '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 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.” ...

This morning, Jezebel writer Erin Gloria Ryan wrote about E.R. Kennedy, a transgender man who, when he was a 16-year-old by the name of Ellen Kennedy, was the girlfriend of novelist Tao Lin, who ...

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 '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, the enigmatic Brooklyn-based author of post-modern novels like Shoplifting from American Apparel, Richard Yates, and EEEEE EEE EEEE, has put more of himself in his upcoming novel Taipei ...

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 ...

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.