Richard Yates Tao Lin Epublibre
Contents • • • • • • Plot [ ] Haley Joel Osment and Dakota Fanning (unrelated to their namesakes) are friends who initially met over the internet and converse with each other regularly through. Haley is a 22-year-old author in, and Dakota is a 16-year-old student in a nearby suburb in. Background [ ] Before writing Richard Yates, Lin sold 10 percent 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 he thought he could make enough money to live on for three or four months. Six days after announcing his plan, Lin had sold 60 percent of the royalties in shares, for a total of $12000. Reception [ ] 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.' Others were more forgiving; 's mostly negative review for allowed that Lin could be 'genuinely funny' and that '[w]hen 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.' 's review described Lin's writing as having 'the effect of putting a red butterfly behind glass: detached but brighter.' Foreign editions [ ] A French edition was published by Au Diable Vauvert and an Italian edition is forthcoming from Saggiatore.
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Guest Reviewer: Bill Clegg Bill Clegg, the author of Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man reviews Tao Lin’s new novel, Richard Yates. Tao Lin’s second novel is called Richard Yates.
The two main characters are named Dakota Fanning and Haley Joel Osment. Dakota Fanning. Haley Joel Osment. Richard Yates.
To varying degrees and depending on when and in which circles they get mentioned, famous names. Richard Yates was a writer who achieved some fame, was basically forgotten and then, after his death, became appreciated again.
Tao Lin used to use his own name and other not famous names for his protagonists and now he doesn’t. Or at least in this novel he didn’t. Haley Joel Osment is a more famous name than Tao Lin. There is much to suggest – in this book and most everywhere – that fame is a wanted thing.
To be recognized. To be witnessed.
To be special. And now, because of the many portals available to access that status, being seen/witnessed/famous/special is achievable, to varying degrees, for everyone. Haley and Dakota meet through one of those portals online. They talk and text like most everyone. Fsx Weather Radar Downloads there. You get the idea.
And so, the story: He’s 22. Eventually, they meet.
She binges, barfs, steals stuff, lies. He catches her. He tells her he cares. She promises to stop all the stuff he catches her doing. He reads a novel by Richard Yates.
Doubt ensues. A gulf widens. Their future together looks less likely. A formal feeling follows. Everyone ends up a little sadder than before. There’s a poem by Daniel Halpern called White Field that was written long before the internet happened. I kept thinking about it when I read Richard Yates.
It’s about the end of a relationship, starting fresh and looking back at that time and that thing that is now over. That time and that thing are depicted as footprints in snow, filling with new snow, soon to disappear. There’s a line in the poem, near the middle, that reads, All day long you tell yourself how you feel. In Richard Yate, Haley and Dakota tell themselves how they feel. All day long. All night long. In chat rooms, in e-mails, in texts, on the phone.
They hear each other for a little while and then hear themselves more. And so the novel, with its famous name characters and its once famous, now famous again name title, wants to be seen and paid attention to; and if you happen to look, you’ll see that it’s saying– shrewdly, brilliantly, in the numb meticulousness of a generation that posts photographs on-line of half-sucked cough drops, about-to-be-eaten meals, and pillows they are about to lay their heads on – that you do, too. 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 writer and his even younger--in fact, under-aged--lover. As he seeks to balance work and love, she becomes more and more self-destructive in a play for his undivided attention.