For those of you who may have managed to miss the piles recent of articles about him, Tao Lin has just released a new novel called Richard Yates and starring characters named Dakota Fanning and Haley Joel Osment. Today, Hipster Runoff (a.k.a. the site many suspect Lin actually runs) has excerpted a passage that contains the sentence, “I just want to walk around with you at night and sometimes ass and crotch rape you.” If that doesn’t sell you, seeing as Tao Lin is all about the knowing cultural references (see also: the novel’s title), we thought this list of proper nouns in the except might help you decide whether you’d like to purchase Richard Yates. We’ve also included a handy word cloud for visual learners.
Kailey
Dakota Fanning
Gmail
Haley Joel Osment
July
New York
America
American
Canadian
God
Friday
Ana
Richard Yates
The Easter Parade
Party Girl
Party Babe
Slut Babe
Slut Party
Thursday
Lemming
Nicholas Sparks
Microsoft Paint
NYU
Aladdin
Gatorade
Comments (5)
I read this book as part of the Rumpus Book Club, and all I can say is…it SUCKED. Really badly. As in if I was teaching a mandatory Writing 101 class at some liberal-arts college I would fucking fail him dead for turning in this piece of puerile crap. This entire book screams “oh shit, I forgot that my contract with my publisher says that they need another book soon, oh fuck, now what?” Overhyped BS like this is what gives credence to ideas that young fiction writers are self-centered borderline illiterates who can only type in text-messages bursts that are stuck at a 6th-grade vocabulary level.
Oh yeah don’t forget to ask me what I REALLY think about this book *smirk*
Tao Lin is not hipster runoff do some research
Every time someone is online or in a bookstore and does a search for Richard Yates, this stupid excuse for a book will pop-up. Sad.
Gee i can’t imagine why you AREN’T teaching a writing 101 class at some liberal arts college. ****doublesmirk**** ***hyphenated double-smirk*****
*smirk*
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