On Gawker this morning they mentioned that he also wrote a book called Rag Doll. Here's the summary on Amazon:
On Gawker this morning they mentioned that he also wrote a book called Rag Doll. Here's the summary on Amazon:
I thought womansplaining was more like, "Aaaaaactually, getting hit in the balls doesn't hurt THAT bad."
Sounds yummy! I would like mine served on a Friday.
not caring how they're done and not knowing multiple ways TO COOK EGGS are completely different.
Vegan steak, in that it's from a cow that ate only vegetables.
Is there steak in that?
After a few minutes, I returned to the table. The man ordered a hamburger.
I explained to him that filet mignon is a steak, a very nice cut of beef. This guy actually argued with me, causing a big scene.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
To challenge your devil's advocate, Tao Lin isn't really denying her statements even when it comes to using her emails for his work. He's justifying it by saying that he got her permission to use the emails, so he's admitting to using her emails and her painful experiences to create his work. I think it's especially…
Our generation's literary scene is as rotten as what came before. Our generation's men are still trying to pull the same, sexist shit. Let's hope they all get theirs in the end, though.
That explains some of it. A little affluenza, anyone?
I'm of the mind that people who write have great imaginations and as a result some are really good liars and are good at creating a fiction about themselves that is convincing to others. I don't want to get into it, but I'm pretty sure my ex could qualify as a sociopath or something. And yeah it's staggering how many…
Unfortunately, a lot of the alt-lit career path is almost entirely dependent on not needing to be paid for your work and having the time to be at parties, events, and meetings that go nowhere. This means that the community is made up are almost entirely of very young people, rich people and grifters. If you look…
"The life of a teenage girl is just collateral damage in the messy pursuit of brilliance."
As the survivor of a relationship with a lit dude (yes, published with 2 books if that matters) who victimizes younger women (including me, and in similar ways to what Kennedy reports, although I wasn't that young. My weight was a big sticking point—if I weighed much over 100 lbs he would comment on how I needed to…
Tao Lin, alt-lit mainstay, author of seven novels and contributor to Thought Catalog
And to top it all off, these heinous little shits can't write.