, Noon (Literary Annual), Offbeat generation, Opium Magazine, Post-irony, Rain Taxi, Reed Arts Week, Rhizome (organization), Richard Yates (novel), Richard Yates (novelist), Sarah Lawrence College, Shoplifting from American Apparel, Spork Press, St. Journal, Heiko Julien, I Hate Myself (band), Jacket2, Jared Hegwood, Joy Williams (American writer), Joyelle McSweeney, Juked, Lake Howell High School, List of American novelists, List of Asian Americans, List of Asian-American writers, List of authors by name: L, List of Chinese Americans, List of English-language poets, List of Finnish writers, List of poets from the United States, List of postmodern novels, List of postmodern writers, List of Sarah Lawrence College people, List of short-story authors, List of Taiwanese Americans, Literary Death Match, Lydia Davis, Marie Calloway, Megan Boyle, Melville House Publishing, Miami Book Fair International, Mira Gonzalez, Mochi (magazine), Monkeybicycle, Muumuu House, My First Time (film series), New Sincerity. Ĩ0 relations: Adam Humphreys, Almost Transparent Blue, Alternative literature, Ann Beattie, Audun Mortensen, Autobiographical novel, Bed (short story collection), Blake Nelson, Blip Magazine, Blueprintreview, Borrelia texasensis, Bret Easton Ellis, Canteen (magazine), Deb Olin Unferth, Don DeLillo, Gigantic (magazine), H.O.W. That might not sound like much, but it's $12,000 more than it was two weeks ago! And I am pretty sure no one is going to be paying taxes on any of it.Tao Lin (born July 2, 1983) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. (Kidding XO!) What can we learn from this? A controlling stake in a hypothetical major work by a minor possessor of literary microfame is worth $12,000. And Matt Schwartz, the writer of that Times Magazine piece on internet trolls also bought 10%, although Matt is my ex-boyfriend so he may have done that to personally antagonize me. A nineteen-year-old intern and neurotic blogger named Soffi bought ponied up two grand, as did a popular University of Houston philosophy professor Tao did not even know. Did it work? Yes! Within a matter of days Tao Lin was sold out of shares in his would-be enterprise. He also stated a desire to eat healthier foods so as to avoid "feeling like I have eating problems" which may lead him to hang out beside toilets. What he did: He posted a blog entry offering 10% shares in a hypothetical "linear" novel "about a relationship" he has not yet written for $2,000 apiece, promising prospective investors "more meaning in life" if they bought shares and boasting his track record of trustworthiness as established by the 100% feedback rating he had earned selling 31 items in the past 12 months on eBay.
Do not click on that last thing if you are easily annoyed. Also, last summer I read a story in a "literary deathmatch" with Tao Lin during which he read this poem for the allotted eight minutes. A lesson in the lifestyle of the poor but microfamous after the jump! TAO LIN, 25 Who he is: I'm not really sure, because he lies about a lot of things, but I know he wrote a book that Emily really hated (but Miranda July liked) and that he once commented on Keith Gessen's blog that he identified with the Jeff Daniels character in The Squid And The Whale. In this inaugural installment of "How To Sell Out," we learn a lesson in highbrow high finance from unsuccessful American Apparel shoplifter and weird novelist Tao Lin, who just successfully took a page from the financial engineering books of his favorite clothing store and launched an initial public offering for shares in a book he hasn't written. Tired? Poor? Starting to wonder if you'll be a creative underclassman forever? Sick of feeling like the answer to the question "What do you?" is "Self-loathingly ask 'What do you do' at increasingly low-budget social events I used to think were the 'fun' part of doing this job?" Break the cycle! India, law school, teaching yoga… don't think it couldn't happen to you!
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