Tao Lin, the alt-lit author and magazine writer, that was publicly accused of plagiarism and statutory rape, has returned to the spotlight with a new book of tweets.
Lin teamed up with poet Mira Gonzalez on the book, “Selected Tweets,” which comes out from Short Flight/Long Drive Books later this month. It includes their Twitter conversations, as well as “illustrations of each other’s tweets, short stories, essays, and a long poem,” says the Amazon listing. Here is an excerpt:
MIRA GONZALEZ: I wouldn’t necessarily say that I tweet what makes me feel uncomfortable, I think it’s more that I feel comfortable tweeting things that I would never feel comfortable saying in a real life conversation, or even in other places on the internet. For reasons that I don’t fully understand, Twitter is a place where I don’t feel ashamed to say my most shameful thoughts…