Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: "Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass--from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious."--Miranda July, author of No One Belongs Here More Than You"Tao Lin is the most distinctive young writer I've come upon in a long time: the most intrepid, the funniest, the strangest...read more

Product Description: for violin and pianoThis piece draws on pentatonic folk tune material and is in rondo form. Both instruments imitate the drum beating with the music concluding with a climax of intensive double stopping and chords.