Oh god, now some tipster is telling us stock-selling novelist Tao Lin's dad is apparently a convicted money launderer. We thought two grand a share seemed a little too uncommensurate with the magnitude of author's delusions of grandeur to be true!
Yesterday we posted about gimmick-crazed "writer" Tao Lin, who recently raised $12,000 in investors' money for a book that doesn't even exist is "95% finished," according to Tao. And one of the investors was Tao's own intern! It seems that said...
Oh noes! Michael Stipe, arbiter of coolness and edgy good taste, is supporting Tao Lin's writing career. The REM singer went to the new DUMBO bookstore Melville House and bought Eeeee Eeee Eeee. 24-year-old Tao employs many interns who often email...
There was a pretty funny essay about "the levels of greatness a fiction writer can achieve in America" in The Stranger last week. The lowest level is a "centipede in the darkness," who "has published seven books. One on Lulu, two on his personal...
A bunch of people are perpetually and loudly super-annoyed by indie director-author Miranda July, who is inevitably described as "elfin" or "pixieish" or "ethereal" in profiles, but we've only ever been able to get mildly peeved at her. Mostly...
Tired? Poor? Starting to wonder if you'll be a creative underclassman forever? Sick of feeling like the answer to the question "What do you?" is "Self-loathingly ask 'What do you do' at increasingly low-budget social events I used to think were...
• Tao Lin and Whitney Pastorek star in the world's most boring literary feud. [RODB] • More sushi for Julie Buxbaum! [Above the Law] • Flash mobs: The second generation is even douchier than the first. [Gridskipper] •...
Glaring Omissions reproduces tips received from readers in the last week that weren't covered on Gawker, either by accident (rarely) or design (almost always). Feel free to remark on these items' relative worthiness for coverage and/or relative...
Hey, can you even blame all the stupid people saying stupid things about today's Freddie Mac Fannie Mae bailout? This whole thing has been stupid ever since someone decided to call it the Federal National Mortgage Association. Who names something...
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