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Richard Yates

av Tao Lin

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In a startling change of direction, cult favourite Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love that is his most sophisticated and mesmerising yet. Named after the real-life writer Richard Yates, but, having nothing to do with him, Lin tracks the illicit affair between a very young writer and his underage lover. As the writer seeks to balance work and love, his young lover becomes ever more self-destructive in a play for his undivided attention. Lin's trademark minimalism takes on a new sharp-edged suspense here, zeroing in on a lacerating narrative.… (mer)
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Not sure what to say here. Even though I was amused by reading dialogue between two characters named Haley Joel Osment and Dakota Fanning and even though I found some nuggets of truth about living with depression, I felt unsatisfied with the book by its end. I'm very intrigued by Tao Lin's writing style, though. I'm still willing to check out his other stuff; if anyone has any suggestions, let me know. ( )
  alyssajp | Jul 29, 2019 |
This is a very well-written book about an emotionally abusive relationship. Unfortunately, it's a fairly autobiographic book, and its publication continues the series of abuses it records. I find it increasingly difficult to tell if the stilted narration is brilliant artifice or just the author's complete personal failure at self-awareness or compassion.
  DanCopulsky | Jun 15, 2017 |
Richard Yates by Tao Lin is about 22 year old Haley Joel Osment, a writer and graduate of New York University, and his 16 year old girlfriend Dakota Fanning. Haley Joel Osment lives in Manhattan and meets Dakota fanning on the internet. After hours of gmail chat conversations, emails, and phone conversations Haley travels to New Jersey. They keep their relationship a secret from Dakota’s mother for months. Richard Yates follows Haley and Dakota as they hide the relationship, travelling back and forth from New York City to New Jersey, to Florida and back. Haley eventually ends up moving to the rural New Jersey town that Dakota is from. The relationship between Haley and Dakota becomes more rocky and strained as the story progresses and as they experience things within the relationship that neither have dealt with before. With the increasing strain on their relationship, Dakota develops an eating disorder, becomes a pathological liar, and Haley becomes uninterested and confused about the relationship and what he wants.

Lin’s novel has already sparked intense conversation among critics and reviewers. Richard Yates brings up serious questions about a generation that lacks rules and structure, the noticeable difference between younger generations and older, the straight-forward, somewhat banal, writing of a young author, what happens with a culture obsessed with technology, and many more.

Lin’s writing style is flat — short sentences detailing what each character is thinking and doing as the story progresses. There are no metaphors, no figurative language, no long, drawn out descriptions. This style of writing isn’t for everyone and can hinder reader from getting involved in the story.


His writing brings up questions about language — how younger generations are using it and developing their own — and how this will effect the language writers use. It was pointed out in book club discussion that Lin’s writing is being copied by a lot of writers in the 24-and-under crowd. This so called “net-language” is no longer limited to appearing on your Facebook Newsfeed and your Instant Message chats. Is a generation that grew up with the internet, with cell phones, text messages, email, and instant message watering down language? Studies have concluded that students’ writing is either getting better or getting worse. I can only say that, from experience, one of those studies is bullshit (the former). Other studies point to an increase in creativity.

This brings up another point: is this the future of writing? Despite Lin’s writing style, and if you can look past it, Richard Yates is actually a deeply engaging story about how people interact and how our technology can either hinder our emotions or enable them.

Why the title Richard Yates? Why name a book after a somewhat famous author? Revolutionary Road and The Easter Parade are considered Yates’ best novels. Yates didn’t necessarily critique his generation but told it as it as — “we are what we are” — in a very realistic sense. Tao Lin said that he was influenced by The Easter Parade while writing “Richard Yates.” Both novels are dry but I think that, as boring as the writing is, it is why Yates was so popular when these were published. You can get a sense of the value of it only after the fact. This is how I feel about Richard Yates, not that it is boring but that you have to get to the end to fully appreciate the whole story.

Even if this sounds like something you wouldn’t be interested in, this is something that needs to be read for all the reasons I mentioned above and more. ( )
  joshanastasia | Oct 20, 2016 |
No, this is not a novel by Richard Yates, but a novel titled Richard Yates. Trickery continues on the first page when discover the two central characters are named “Haley Joel Osment” and “Dakota Fanning.” “Haley” is a hipster novelist who starts a relationship with the underage “Dakota.” Their infatuation is going great until it has a collision in the Whole Foods parking lot with “Dakota’s” high-strung mother. What I first thought would be 200 pages of the deep black satire slowly segues into a chamber piece about shoplifting, bulimia, co-dependency, and suicide. Suburban angst is decidedly not my thing, but there are some hilariously moments between the two most dislikable characters I have ever read this side of, uh, Richard Yates. Lin’s mantra-like use of “Haley Joel Osment” and “Dakota Fanning” over and over entrances you while the humanity of the story slips underneath the formalist surface. Not for everyone, but subversive enough to part the oil slick that is contemporary fiction.

The cover is great. ( )
  librarianbryan | Dec 16, 2013 |
Over the past few years I’ve heard the name Tao Lin repeatedly. Often times it was reverentially spoken (Literary Linsanity?) and for whatever reason I was turned off. I assumed that his books would be clever in that “Look at me! I am so clever.” kind of way a la Miranda July and didn’t think I could handle it.

Back in October I was cruising our big indie bookstore in Phoenix Tempe and came across his novel Richard Yates. I decided to purchase it for a couple of reasons. The first was that I could confirm (or not) my suspicions of Lin’s tweeness. The second was that the book was titled Richard Yates. I like Richard Yates’ writing a good deal and I thought if I am going to end up hating Lin this is the book I want to do it with.

So anyway, the book. There’s no story, it’s just a relationship happening between an under-aged girl (16-17) and a 22ish guy. A lot of it takes place via gmail chat, text message and phone calls, though sometimes it happens in person. The two characters are often not very nice to each another, the guy usually being the bigger dick (surprise!), however the girl has her own issues. It just goes on for a while and then ends. The book feels somewhat repetitive at times, but for some reason I couldn’t look away.

I was kind of annoyed by the names of the characters which is why I stuck, for the purposes of this review, with “guy” and “girl”. Another thing that was annoying is that the publisher put a question on the back cover, presumably to sell more copies, that makes no goddamn sense. The person who made that decision should be punched in the face.

So yeah, I didn’t hate it, nor did it make me hate the author. In fact, I’ll likely read his other books at some point. ( )
  dtn620 | Sep 22, 2013 |
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In a startling change of direction, cult favourite Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love that is his most sophisticated and mesmerising yet. Named after the real-life writer Richard Yates, but, having nothing to do with him, Lin tracks the illicit affair between a very young writer and his underage lover. As the writer seeks to balance work and love, his young lover becomes ever more self-destructive in a play for his undivided attention. Lin's trademark minimalism takes on a new sharp-edged suspense here, zeroing in on a lacerating narrative.

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