by Tao Lin
Review:
This is a series of nine warped, lyrical, romantic, hilarious tales from Tao Lin, published by Melville House, a relatively new publishing house, associated with a famous blog called Moby Lives.Lin's writing has appeared in the Mississippi Review, the Cincinnati Review, Punk Planet, Bear Parade, Other Voices, Nerve, and Noon. He is the winner of the One Story short story contest and New York University's undergraduate creative writing prize, and is the author of a poetry chapbook entitled YOU ARE A LITTLE BIT HAPPIER THAN I AM, which won the Action Books prize.
His blog is called READER OF DEPRESSING BOOKS
(http://reader-of-depressing-books.blogspot.com/).
The entire collection almost reads like a biography, with the names changed to protect the innocent, especially Lin. The only common thread is the word "bed". It periodically turns up every now and then and in a very sudden way. I loved this book and would highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a new fresh voice in literature.
