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Richard Yates is an autobiographical novel by Tao Lin, published in 2010.

In a startling change of direction, cult favorite Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love that is his most sophisticated and mesmerizing writing yet. Richard Yates is named after real-life writer Richard Yates, but it has nothing to do with him. Instead, it tracks the rise and fall of an illicit affair between a very young. 'Richard Yates is hilarious, menacing, and hugely intelligent. Tao Lin is a Kafka for the iPhone generation. He has that most important gift: it's impossible to imagine anyone else writing like he does and sounding authentic. Yet he has already spawned a huge school of Lin imitators. As precocious and prolific as he is, every book surpasses the. Tao Lin’s new novel Richard Yates is by turns frustratingly literal, genuinely insightful, monotonous, charming, plain-faced and sweet. At a little over 200 pages it really only allows room for two characters: Haley Joel Osment and Dakota Fanning (with the latter’s mother occasionally appearing at the periphery), and concerns itself equally with the minutiae of their days and the. 'I feel bored of life' thought Haley Joel Osment. I didn't enjoy reading Richard Yates all that much, but I like that Lin's writing has sparked conversations about storytelling, questions about generational gaps between modern readers (this book is sort of the antithesis of the Victorian novel in that. Richard Yates, the author, has a story called “Joseph, I’m So Tired,” and so are Lin’s characters, and after this book so is the reader. I don’t know if I’d call Richard Yates a wake-up call to readers uninitiated with the work of Tao Lin. To me, it’s not loud enough; its voice, like the voice of its characters, too mumbled.

Plot[edit]

Haley Joel Osment and Dakota Fanning (unrelated to their child star namesakes, though they are the same respective ages as the actors were at the time the book was published) are friends who initially met over the internet and converse with each other regularly through Gmailchat. Haley is a 22-year-old author in Manhattan, and Dakota is a 16-year-old high school student in a nearby suburb in New Jersey.

Controversy[edit]

The novel's plot is based on Lin's relationship with the poet E. R. Kennedy, whom he dated when he was 22 and Kennedy was 16. In October 2014, Kennedy accused Lin of committing statutory rape over the course of their relationship. Kennedy also accused Lin of instances of emotional abuse, and claimed that Lin based passages in Richard Yates on personal email correspondence between the two.^[1][2]

Richard Yates Tao Lin

Lin posted a statement on Facebook addressing Kennedy's accusations. He agreed that he had sex with Kennedy, with whom he had been in a long-term relationship, but said that it was 'not statutory rape, let alone rape' (as the website Jezebel had originally reported before correcting the article), and said he had Kennedy's permission to use their correspondence. He also claimed to have offered Kennedy any royalties from Yates, and to request that Melville House withdraw it from circulation.^[3]

Background[edit]

Before writing Richard Yates, Lin sold 10 percent shares of its royalties for $2000 each. Expressing a desire to focus solely on the book in lieu of maintaining an income for living expenses, Lin said, “I actually will work better on my second novel, the way the novel is right now, if I have no obligations or responsibilities at all.” According to Lin, a conventional book deal with a publisher would have provided him with only a month's worth of living costs, whereas through private investments he thought he could make enough money to live on for three or four months.^[4] Six days after announcing his plan, Lin had sold 60 percent of the royalties in shares, for a total of $12000.^[5]

Reception[edit]

Richard Yates, like Lin's previous work, met polarized criticism. Many reviewers criticized Lin's idiosyncratic plain and minimally descriptive style. One wrote that his prose 'may appeal to a bored and banalized readership, but the writing is anything but appealing.'^[6] Others were more forgiving; Charles Bock's mostly negative review for The New York Times allowed that Lin could be 'genuinely funny' and that 'When Haley Joel and Dakota find solace in each other through small, intimate gestures, or in descriptions of Dakota’s defeated parents, Lin’s flat style resonates.'^[7]The Boston Globe's review described Lin's writing as having 'the effect of putting a red butterfly behind glass: detached but brighter.'^[8]

Foreign editions[edit]

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A French edition was published by Au Diable Vauvert^[9] and an Italian edition by Saggiatore.^[10]

References[edit]

1. ^'Alt-Lit Icon Tao Lin Accused of Statutory Rape and Abuse [Updated]'. Jezebel. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
2. ^'What Are We To Make Of Tao Lin's Comeback?'. BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
3. ^'Tao Lin Responds To Abuse Allegations On Facebook'. BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
4. ^Moore, Matthew (8 August 2008). 'Penniless author sells shares in next novel'. The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
5. ^Flood, Alison (6 August 2008). 'Taking stock of Tao Lin'. The Guardian. London. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
6. ^Cohen, Joshua. 'Camera Obscura'. Bookforum.com. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
7. ^Bock, Charles (24 September 2010). 'Young Love'. The New York Times. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
8. ^Dreilinger, Danielle. 'Well-known names on characters we want to know better'. The Boston Globe. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
9. ^https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.livreshebdo.fr/weblog/par-la-bande-11/612.aspx&ei=Vr0mTsmkI4qSgQes5tVc&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDoQ7gEwBA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DAu%2Bdiable%2Bvauvert%2Btao%2Blin%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1089%26bih%3D598%26prmd%3Divnso
10. ^http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/richard-yates-lin-tao-saggiatore/libro/9788842817376

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