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"Richard Yates is a moving, very funny, discomforting, and heartbreakingly life-affirming meditation on extremes—extreme alienation, extreme intimacy, extreme confusion, extreme expectations—that reads like a meticulously and lovingly crafted collaboration between a weirder Ernest Hemingway and a more philosophically-minded Jean Rhys." —James Frey "Richard Yates is hilarious, menacing, and hugely intelligent. Tao Lin is a Kafka for the iPhone generation. He has that most important gift: it’s impossible to imagine anyone else writing like he does and sounding authentic. Yet he has already spawned a huge school of Lin imitators. As precocious and prolific as he is, every book surpasses the last. Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today." —Clancy Martin "[Richard Yates] is like a ninety-foot pigeon. You've never seen anything like it before, and yet it is somehow exactly like the world we live in." —Daniel Handler "[Richard Yates] is amazingly weird, disturbing, and good." —Time Out New York "Trancelike and often hilarious...[Shoplifting from American Apparel] is reminiscent of early Douglas Coupland, or early Bret Easton Ellis, but there is also something going on here that is more profoundly peculiar, even Beckettian [...] deliciously odd." —The Guardian "Prodigal, unpredictable...impossible to ignore." —Paste "[A] deadpan literary trickster." —New York Times "Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass—from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious." —Miranda July "[F]ascinating and articulate." —Emily Gould "Stimulating and exciting." —San Francisco Bay Guardian "[J]ust might be the future of literature." —Austin Chronicle "A master of understatement–or, rather, of statement." —Vice "[Shoplifting from American Apparel] is the purest example so far of the minimalist aesthetic as it used to be enunciated." —Michael Silverblatt, Bookworm "Lin's sympathetic fascination with the meaning of life is full of profound and often hilarious insights." —Publishers Weekly "Do you read Tao Lin and think 'I love this! What is it?' Perhaps it is the curious effect of a radically talented, fecund and tender mind setting down a world sans sense or consequence." —Lore Segal