tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post114077516478835322..comments2024-03-29T11:20:37.238+00:00Comments on Grumpy Old Bookman: Tao Lin: BedMichael Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338398159818400930noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-68006736547718490862016-05-14T13:23:17.364+01:002016-05-14T13:23:17.364+01:00I feel like a jerk for being surprised that such a...I feel like a jerk for being surprised that such a young writer could do what Tao Lin does. The beginnings of the stories in Bed make me feel like I am an ant being picked up and dropped in a swimming pool in New Jersey. The middles and ends of the stories in Bed make me feel like I am an ant not quite dying for some reason, in a swimming pool in New Jersey, hearing muzak being piped in from underwater speakers. They are all slightly different from one another. They are all good.<br /><br />Jasmine<br /><a href="http://www.lake-lbj-homes.com/" rel="nofollow">Great data for Real Estate Lake LBJ Service</a>Penelope Sanchezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03732383763497653346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1141056627233912292006-02-27T16:10:00.000+00:002006-02-27T16:10:00.000+00:00"A Reader's Manifesto" began as an article in the ..."A Reader's Manifesto" began as an article in the Atlantic back in 2001; it was basically a condemnation of Guterson, Proulx, DeLillo, and several others.<BR/>I liked it back then, I remember (I'm happy to say I've matured a little bit since then). It was very reactionary, very emperor's-new-clothes-ish.<BR/>It was twenty pages long, or so, but I think it might have been equally effective for Myers to have said: "These are writers that reviewers and critics generally favor. I don't like them."<BR/>~Will EntrekinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com