Taipei

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The most interesting prose stylist of his generation -- Bret Easton Ellis Lin's writing is reminiscent of early Douglas Coupland, or early Bret Easton Ellis, but there is also something going on here that is more profoundly peculiar, even Beckettian . . . deliciously odd * * Guardian * * Moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious -- Miranda July, author of No One Belongs Here More Than You Lin is a 21st century literary adventurer . . . [Taipei] is a fascinating book, bone dry, repellant, painful, but relentlessly true to life -- Frederick Barthelme, author of Waveland A Kafka for the iPhone generation . . . Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today -- Clancy Martin [A] deadpan literary trickster * * New York Times * * Alienation, obsession, social confusion, drugs, the internet, sex, food, death - [are] rendered here with a calm intuition . . . a work of vision so relentless it forces most any reader to respond -- Blake Butler, author of Sky Saw A strange, hypnotic, memoir-reeking novel that is equal parts dissociative and heartbreaking, surreally hallucinogenic and grittily realist, ugly and beautiful -- Porochista Khakpour, author of Sons and Other Flammable Objects Deeply smart, funny, and heads-over-heels dedicated * * New York Magazine * * Lin captures certain qualities of contemporary life better than many writers in part because he dispenses with so much that is expected of current fiction * * London Review of Books * *