Tao Lin
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Tao Lin (born July 2, 1983) is an American novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and performer.
He has written three books, a novella, two books of poetry, a collection of short stories and a memoir, as well as a large collection of online content.
Vintage Books published Taipei, his third book.
Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change, his nonfiction book, was released by Vintage on May 1, 2018.
Leave Society, Vintage's next book, will be published. Lin founded Muumu House, an independent publishing house, in November 2008, and in 2010, he co-founded MDMA Films, an independent film production company.
Life and education
Lin was born in Alexandria, Virginia, to Taiwanese parents and grew up in suburbs in and around Orlando, Florida. He attended Lake Howell High School and graduated from New York University in 2005 with a B.A. Journalism is a discipline of journalism. Lin was a student at the University of Hawaii in January 2020.
Career
Lin quit his job after selling shares of the future royalties of his novel Richard Yates online in 2009. After Richard Yates, Lin got a literary agent, Bill Clegg, who sold his next book, Taipei, to Vintage Books, which has published his subsequent work. In 2008, Lin founded the independent press Muumuu House. The press has published four print books and over 100 stories, essays, and poems online, including work by Megan Boyle, Marie Calloway, Sheila Heti, and James Purdy.
In 2011, Lin and his ex-wife Megan Boyle founded MDMAfilms, a film production company, through which they released three experimental films, including Mumblecore. The films were made using a Macbook’s iSight camera on an extremely low budget.
Lin has lectured on his writing, poetry, and art at Vassar College, Kansas City Art Institute, Columbia College, UNC Chapel Hill, and other universities and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum. In 2012 and in 2015 he taught a graduate course at Sarah Lawrence College called "The Contemporary Short Story."
In 2014, the website Jezebel posted screenshots of tweets by Lin's former girlfriend, writer E.R. Kennedy, alleging abuse, statutory rape, and plagiarism. The allegations stem from 2005, when Kennedy and Lin dated. At the time, Kennedy was 16 and Lin was 22. Lin responded on Facebook, denying the allegations. Kennedy deleted the tweets and asked Jezebel to take down the article, a request Jezebel ignored.
Lin began drawing what he called "mandalas" in 2014. Initially, he sold them on eBay. Mandala 12 was published on the cover of an issue of Vice Magazine. In an interview with Arachne, Lin said, "On February 12, 2014, I was absently drawing on graph paper. I drew what looked to me like a crop-circle idea. I drew over it, adding layers. When I was finished it looked like a mandala, and the paper I was using was square, like in mandalas, so I called it a mandala."