the most promising young american author is TAO LIN

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Attn: flappy bird. I take back the stuff I said before. The drug book is good.

Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link

It’s not making me into a terrence mckenna supporter but as a work of nonfiction literature—part memoir, part biography, part speculative philosophy book but structured according to his own journey back from nihilism— it’s very good. Every formal choice comes from a place of authenticity, just like taipei

Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 01:41 (five years ago) link

yeah I loved how the book is really about recovery. glad you got around to it and stuck with it.

flappy bird, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 02:38 (five years ago) link

have read everything of his but could not go to bat for him until Trip. thankfully he's become a writer beyond his disaffected early style. it's a beautiful, sincere book. related; anyone reading Liveblog by megan o'boyle?

Yelploaf, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 04:07 (five years ago) link

Didn't know it was finally out. Will check out asap

flappy bird, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 04:37 (five years ago) link

I wonder how pissed/sad he is when he sees Virgil Abloh “doing” “scare quotes” as an “aesthetic.”

... (Eazy), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 04:54 (five years ago) link


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