(1983-07-02) July 2, 1983 (age 40) Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
Occupation
Novelist
poet
journalist
Education
New York University (BA)
Genre
Literary fiction
Autofiction
Nonfiction
alt-lit
poetry
Notable works
Taipei
Trip
Leave Society
Shoplifting from American Apparel
Spouse
Megan Boyle
(m. 2010; sep. 2011)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
林韜
Simplified Chinese
林韬
Hanyu Pinyin
Lín Tāo
IPA
[lǐn tʰáʊ]
Hokkien POJ
Lîm Tho
Website
taolin.us
Tao Lin (Chinese: 林韜; born July 2, 1983) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. He has published four novels, a novella, two books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a memoir, as well as an extensive assortment of online content. His third novel, Taipei, was published by Vintage on June 4, 2013.[1] His nonfiction book Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change was published by Vintage on May 1, 2018. His fourth novel, Leave Society, was published by Vintage on August 3, 2021.
^Taipei. Vintage. June 4, 2013. ISBN 978-0307950178.
TaoLin (Chinese: 林韜; born July 2, 1983) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. He has published four novels, a novella...
by the likes of Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner, Teju Cole, Jenny Offill, and TaoLin, among others, as well as the multivolume epic My Struggle by the Norwegian...
PDFs and folded papers..." and that the movement's principal figures were TaoLin, Noah Cicero and Brandon Scott Gorrell. Alt Lit writers share Gmail chat...
marrying writer TaoLin. Together, Boyle and Lin created several movies for their company MDMAfilms, which they began in 2010. In 2011, Lin published Boyle's...
of the same name. He also had roles in a film adaptation of Taipei by TaoLin, and the Chris Morris production The Day Shall Come, filmed in the Dominican...
Leave Society is a 2021 novel by TaoLin. It is his fourth novel, and tenth book overall. The cover, by Linda Huang, features what are described in the...
Blu-ray in 2017 by Factory 25. It included essays by Chuck Klosterman and TaoLin. Andrew Bujalski was the winner of the 2004 Someone to Watch Award at the...
In 2017, she also filmed High Resolution based on the book Taipei by TaoLin. The same year, Bamber appeared in the music video for Shawn Mendes' song...
McKenna lectures Tao of Terence Archived August 11, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, a 12-part series of essays on McKenna by TaoLin at Vice Terence McKenna...
publishing industry". Calloway's writing has been championed by writer TaoLin and is considered a staple of alternative literature. A writer in Esquire...
Jason Lester. The movie was based on the acclaimed novel Taipei by author TaoLin. Chon also co-wrote (with Kevin Wu), directed, executive produced, and...
In various Chinese religions and philosophies, the Tao or Dao is the natural way of the universe, whose character one's intuition must discern to realize...
Visualization (VIS), 1991, pp. 284–291, ISBN 0-8186-2245-8; Peter Eades, TaoLin, and Xuemin Lin, "Two Tree Drawing Conventions", International Journal of Computational...
arts Weapons and armor in Chinese mythology Wushu (sport) Jamieson, John; Tao, Lin; Shuhua, Zhao (2002). Kung Fu (I): An Elementary Chinese Text. The Chinese...
Donovan from Sunshine Superman, 1966 Trip (book), a 2018 nonfiction book by TaoLin Trip (magazine), a Brazilian lifestyle magazine The Trip, a 1978 children's...
Derek Lin is a Taiwanese-American author in the Tao genre. Lin translated the Tao Te Ching and annotated it. His translation is published by Skylight...
Kerouac Wally Lamb Doris Lessing Mark Leyner José Lezama Lima Eduard Limonov TaoLin Clarice Lispector Patricia Lockwood Robert Ludlum Dimitris Lyacos Dominic...
so-called trailer park fiction, Diet-Pepsi minimalism, and hick chic. Author TaoLin described Kmart realism as being "at its “height” maybe in the mid to late-80’s...
literature, with TaoLin as a regular contributor. Later, it became associated with a personal, confessional style. The ambiance between Fagan and Lin was particularly...
The Koh Tao murders involved the deaths of two British tourists in Thailand in 2014. On 15 September, the bodies of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller...
water-buffalo Zhao Liying as the Ruler of Women's Country Lin Chi-ling as Hebo Gigi Leung as Advisor Liu Tao as Guanyin Kingdom Yuen as Priest Cecilia So as young...
magazines including Vice, Hobart, and Muumuu House. In 2015, Gonzalez and TaoLin released Selected Tweets, a collaborative double-book featuring selections...
books Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig and The Tao of Muhammad Ali by Davis Miller open with statements admitting to some fictionalising...
May 1, 2012. "Books of the year 2011". The Guardian. London. 25 November 2011. Review by James Wood in The New Yorker Interview by TaoLin in Believer...