Comments on: Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin

By: nicole

nicole — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:20:56 +0000

Right. I mean, we know it is autobiographical, and we know based on what Lin said in the article I linked above that it is barely fictionalized, so, yeah. And for my purposes it doesn't matter at all. (The other one I can identify is Dennis Loy Johnson, co-founder of Melville House, writer of their blog, and fan of Euro-style price controls on books.)

By: Amateur Reader

Amateur Reader — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:11:03 +0000

I love the roman a clef comment. It’s so perfectly useless. I have no idea who any of those people are. One seems to be the author.

We were discussing Swann’s Way at a book club long ago, and a young enthusiast brought the same sort of list, Proust’s character = Mme de So and So. I thought it was hilarious; he thought it was profound, even though he didn’t know who any of the people were, either.

By: karlo

karlo — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:10:15 +0000

looks like a very interesting book to me! :)

By: blueberries mcbunnyfrog

blueberries mcbunnyfrog — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:53:06 +0000

<3 Tao

<3 Shoplifting

the book is a roman a clef and here is who every character is based on:

Audrey, Amanda Farajian
Briana, Bianca Stone
Chris, Chris Johnston
Connie, Jamie Sterns
Hester, Ellen Frances
Gina, Gena Morgese
Jeffrey, Jeffrey Heart
Joseph, Joseph Moore
Kaitlyn, Kelly Ginger
Luis, Noah Cicero
Mallory, Mallory Coppenrath
Moby, Dennis Loy Johnson
Paula, Carmichael Monaco
Robert, Zachary German
Sam, Tao Lin
Sheila, Ellen Kennedy

By: Biblibio

Biblibio — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:57:42 +0000

That’s got to be the strangest (and most incredible) target demographic I’ve ever heard of…