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Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin
Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin. 2009 Melville House, first edition, 103 pages. Inscribed by the author. Tao Lin was the face of 2000's alt-lit. who at 27 was named a “New Lit Boy” in a New York magazine profile In a review for Shoplifting in the Guardian, "Writing that looks artless is a difficult trick to pull off. This trancelike and often hilarious novella by a cultish young New York writer is all about that trick, and the unusual pleasures it smuggles in just below its seemingly flat surface."
Condition: Good+ Soiling on text block, front cover wavey, inscribed on the title page
"He lay on his bed and stared at his computer screen."
Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin. 2009 Melville House, first edition, 103 pages. Inscribed by the author. Tao Lin was the face of 2000's alt-lit. who at 27 was named a “New Lit Boy” in a New York magazine profile In a review for Shoplifting in the Guardian, "Writing that looks artless is a difficult trick to pull off. This trancelike and often hilarious novella by a cultish young New York writer is all about that trick, and the unusual pleasures it smuggles in just below its seemingly flat surface."
Condition: Good+ Soiling on text block, front cover wavey, inscribed on the title page
"He lay on his bed and stared at his computer screen."