TAO LIN / Richard Yates
A Litquake Featured Event
“[A] deadpan literary trickster.” – The New York Times
TAO LIN
Richard Yates
Tao Lin’s trademark minimalism takes on a much darker edge as he narrates the story of a young man dealing with the consequences of an affair with an underage girl, in a startling change of direction for this cult writer. Buried within Lin’s work is a troubling question – what exactly constitutes illicit sex for a generation with no rules?
Richard Yates is
named after real-life writer Richard Yates, but it has little to do with him.
Instead, it racks the relationship between writer Haley Joel Osment, a New
Yorker in his early twenties, and Dakota Fanning, his 16-year-old lover. Moving
between Fanning’s suburban
"Richard Yates is hilarious, menacing,and hugely intelligent. Tao Lin is a Kafka for the iPhone generation. He has that most important gift: it's impossible to imagine anyone else writing like he does and sounding authentic. Yet he has already spawned a huge school of Lin imitators. As precocious and prolific as he is, every book surpasses the last. Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today." -- Clancy Martin
Tao Lin is the author of numerous other books, including Shoplifting from American Apparel, Eeeee Eee Eeee, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.
Preferred seating with the purchase at The Booksmith of Richard Yates beginning 9/7. Seating vouchers will be given with purchase while supplies last.
- Street:
- The Booksmith
- Additional:
- 1644 Haight Street
- City:
- San Francisco ,
- Province:
- California
- Postal Code:
- 94117
- Country:
- United States
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