9/3/2023 0 Comments Bed tao lin![]() ![]() He’s attracted a following of eager acolytes who write in a similar vein and buy the items he sells online: recorded conversations with himself, bits of art, things from his apartment, sundries he has shoplifted. Lin tweets things like “Person averted their sight as I walked absently up a down escalator while maneuvering my iPhone so the display wasn’t sideways/upside-down,” and his books are written in a variant of that style. What he embodies is what the old both hate and envy about the young: a belief that every little thing that happens to them will be of interest to everyone. He has attracted an army of vocal detractors because of the self-promotional tactics he uses to attract attention and make a living (a few of the more salacious examples include publicly cataloging his drug use, e-mailing Gawker to ask them to write about him, and releasing Bebe Zeva, a 2011 feature-length documentary shot with his MacBook’s camera). He grew up in Orlando, went to NYU, and has released five books since 2007: a story collection, a volume of poetry, a novella, and two novels. ![]() Lin is unquestionably one of the most loathed young novelists in America today. In five minutes, he loses his $20 and smiles, so we walk around the casino, looking for a quieter place to speak. In the parking lot outside the casino, Lin took 10 milligrams of Adderall, and now he’s trying to lose all the money he has in the slot machine so we can begin this interview exactly 30 minutes after he took the drug, which is when, he says, he’ll be at his most effusive. On Easter Sunday this year, 29-year-old novelist Tao Lin is playing a slot machine at Resorts World Casino in Queens, betting the maximum amount on each spin. GROOMING: KENSHIN ASANO FOR BUMBLE AND BUMBLE/L’ATELIER NYC. GROOMING PRODUCTS: BUMBLE AND BUMBLE, INCLUDING STYLING LOTION. ![]()
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