371. Tao Lin & Mira Gonzalez

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2015

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Tao Lin and Mira Gonzalez are the guests. Their new book, Selected Tweets, is available now from Short Flight / Long Drive. Selected Tweets, as its title suggests, is a collection of Tao and Mira's tweets. It's not all of their tweets; it's an edited selection, published in a little black bible-like volume. For those of you who might be doubting the literary value of the book, I would suggest considering it as a work of poetry, though it feels like more than a work of poetry. In the aggregate, I suppose it reads like a kind of memoir-poetry hybrid or something. Maybe it's its own thing. It's kind of a jokebook, too. Both Mira and Tao are funny writers. In the monologue, I talk about Tao and Mira's arrival at my house and the shopping bag that Tao brought, and a conversation that he and I had about a tree in my backyard. I also talk about Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.6	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.
1:20.5	I think it's really beautiful.
1:22.1	Jesus, did it?
1:22.9	What?
1:23.1	I struggle, you know?
1:24.4	It was incredible.
1:25.6	You know, it was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. Again, this is it. This is other people. This is essentially one big project. This is trying to become a virus. How's it going? I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. And my guests today are Tao Lin and Mira Gonzalez.
1:45.7	Tau Lynn and Mira Gonzalez.
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