BEST EVIDENCE THAT RELENTLESS SELF-PROMOTION CAN STILL GET YOU SOMEWHERE IN THIS TOWN. SORT OF: New York Magazine christening Tao Lin the next Lit “It Kid”
BEST SIGN THAT PERHAPS THE END OF THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY AS WE KNOW IT WON’T BE THE UTTER DISASTER WE’RE ALL DREADING:
Electric Literature
BEST NEW WEBSITE THAT’S SURE TO MAKE MILLIONS: fiftytwostories.com
BEST INDICTMENT OF AN AMAZON CULTURE: Adrian Tomine’s “Read-Handed” New Yorker Cover
BEST EXAMPLE OF A PUBLICLY DISGRACED LITERARY FIGURE GOOD-NATUREDLY TAKING THE SHIT HE HAS COMING TO HIM: James Frey’s Gawker internship
MOST DEPRESSING REVELATION REGARDING THE FINANCIAL REALITIES OF MAGAZINE JOURNALISM: Dan Baum’s Per Annum
BEST LITERARY FAREWELL: John Updike in the New York Times
FIVE BEST UNCONFIRMED THOMAS PYNCHON SIGHTINGS
BEST BASKETBALL LEAGUE FOR NERDS:
WORD Basketball League
BEST TINY LITTLE ZINE FROM AN ARTS COLLECTIVE: Birdsong
BEST REASON FOR THE NEW YORKER TO RETURN TO THE PRACTICE OF MAKING THEIR SUMMER FICTION ISSUE THE DEBUT FICTION ISSUE:
The Tiger’s Wife,” by Tea Obreht
BEST DICK MOVE BY A HERO TO MILLIONS:
J.D. Salinger
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Congrats Tommy. Well deserved
Congrats, Tommy!
Way to go Tao!!!
In my opinion, Tao Lin must be understood through the lens of his obsession with the music of Pneumershonic and the writing of the late Matt Jasper.