{"id":3045,"date":"2011-07-03T17:33:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T00:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/07\/20-questions-for-tao-lin\/"},"modified":"2011-07-07T18:15:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T01:15:43","slug":"20-questions-for-tao-lin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/03\/20-questions-for-tao-lin\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Questions For Tao Lin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/07\/01\/my-new-york-20-questions-_n_888758.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The Huffington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>My New York: 20 Questions For &#8216;Shoplifting From American Apparel&#8217;, &#8216;RICHARD YATES&#8217; Author Tao Lin<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; font-size: 11px; color: #696969\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><strong style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; border-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">The Huffington Post<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 5px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-right-width: 1px; border-right-color: #53575d; font-size: 8px; padding: 0px\" class=\"vborder-dashed margin_0_5\">\u00a0<\/span>Christopher Mathias<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; font-size: 12px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.huffpost.com\/gen\/300756\/thumbs\/s-TAO-large300.jpg\" alt=\"Tao\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"240\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Age:<\/strong>\u00a027<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Current Gig:<\/strong>\u00a0I honestly don&#8217;t know, maybe &#8220;author.&#8221; [<em style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: italic !important; border-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Follow Tao on twitter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tao_lin\" style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: #058b7b; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; border-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_hplink\">here<\/a>, and buy his latest book\u00a0<strong style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">RICHARD YATES<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tao_lin\" style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: #058b7b; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; border-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/em>].<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Neighborhood:<\/strong>\u00a0Off the Graham L train stop, I think it&#8217;s technically Williamsburg.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Years In New York:<\/strong>\u00a010, I think.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Who is your favorite New Yorker, living or dead?<\/strong> I like Woody Allen. I&#8217;m not thinking of anyone else when I think &#8220;New Yorker.&#8221; I think I view almost everyone as &#8220;from the internet&#8221; now.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Your perfect New York date?<\/strong> Eating dinner at Sel De Mer after ingesting Xanax then walking a little before going to my apartment to do things on the internet, shower, drink green juice, have sex, sleep.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">What&#8217;s your drink?<\/strong> I like unpasteurized coconut water.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Favorite bookstore?<\/strong> St. Mark&#8217;s Bookshop maybe. <\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">The best reading or lecture you&#8217;ve attended in New York?<\/strong> The most memorable was maybe Matthew Rohrer, James Frey, and [someone else] in something like 2006 at an NYU reading. I first learned of Matthew Rohrer then. I liked James Frey&#8217;s reading. He left right after reading to, I think, go home to his baby or small child.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/07\/01\/my-new-york-20-questions-_n_888758.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read the Full 20 at HuffPo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Huffington Post My New York: 20 Questions For &#8216;Shoplifting From American Apparel&#8217;, &#8216;RICHARD YATES&#8217; Author Tao Lin The Huffington Post\u00a0\u00a0Christopher Mathias Age:\u00a027 Current Gig:\u00a0I honestly don&#8217;t know, maybe &#8220;author.&#8221; [Follow Tao on twitter\u00a0here, and buy his latest book\u00a0RICHARD YATES\u00a0here]. Neighborhood:\u00a0Off the Graham L train stop, I think it&#8217;s technically Williamsburg. 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