Set mostly in Manhattan although also featuring Atlantic City, Brooklyn, GMail Chat, and Gainsville, Florida this autobiographical novella, spanning two years in the life of a young writer with a cultish following, has been described by the author as A shoplifting book about vague relationships, 2 parts shoplifting arrest, 5 parts vague relationship issues, and An ultimately life affirming book about how the unidirectional nature of time renders everything beautiful and sad. Tao Lin, also author of the story collection Bed, lives in New York City. It is a place where animals talk, books and music matter, honesty counts, and you can ask, without fear of embarrassment, What s a Jhumpa Lahiri? Eeeee Eee Eeee is a pleasingly sophisticated work, an unself conscious yet commanding tour de force about the search for meaning in a culture gone mad with celebrities and advertising.ĭepicting a group of friends transitioning between school and adulthood, Lin s prose is strikingly stylish, funny, and lyrical, as he reminds us that youth is still refreshingly a time of deep questioning, poignant realization, fun, and hope. Lin meets and surpas*ses all expectations in a debut novel set in the bizarre alternative reality of today s youth culture. Meanwhile, his fiction appears regularly in the zines and websites defining the new culture. His commentaries taking mainstream writers to task and calling for the death of commercial writing have generated nonstop discussion and made him the subject of innumerable profiles on leading cultural websites, from McSweeney s to Booksl*ut to Gawker and on. com, has made him one of the most talked about young writers on the scene today. Tao Lin’s book blog, reader of depressing books. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious.’ Miranda July ‘Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom.
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