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Chinese-born American novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer and artist

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Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin: Selected Tweets

Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin: Selected Tweets Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin's Selected Tweets is a compendium of tweets -- often dark and dispairing, but also bitingly funny -- written over the course of ten years, sometimes under their own names, sometimes using assumed names.

29 MIN, 13 SEC Aug 13, 2015

Tao Lin: Taipei

Tao Lin: Taipei

Aug 01, 2013

Tao Lin: Shoplifting from American Apparel

Tao Lin: Shoplifting from American Apparel

Dec 03, 2009

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