An Excerpt Of 'White Out: The Secret Life Of Heroin' 

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"What does it feel like to be alive? Weird. Really weird. That’s something very easy to forget—we have an ability to acclimate quickly to our own ambient mental environment. For similar reasons, the fundamental strangeness of being alive is also very hard to articulate. What Tao Lin does is to slow everything down, paying very close attention to everything, registering his findings. The noise and bustle and all-night lights of the big city, first New York City, and then Taipei, the blur of pills and parties and people’s faces are presented not as an impressionistic smear, but in careful, deliberate language, prose so precise it cannot be anything but excruciatingly honest. At times, Taipei feels like an experiment, a study on how to use (and abuse) your brain, with Paul communicating in a way that almost feels scientific—he’s a scientist studying the strange thing called his self, or an alien who experiences human consciousness as if he were test-driving a brand new technology. It is this detachment which allows Lin to render, in a very pure, very visceral way, what the fringe feels like, a displacement or distance from the center, from your own heart, the psychological impossibility of going to some real or imagined home. Taipei renders all of this with a brute and direct force, and I admit at times that force caused me to flinch. This kind of experience is why I read, though—to be challenged, to be confronted, to experience something completely familiar that has been made entirely new."

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Hobart :: 4 Poems 

i have 4 poems up at Hobart

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"I’m going to kill the president.
I promise. I surrender. I’m sorry.
I’m gay. I’m pregnant. I’m dying.
I’m not your father. You’re fired.
Fire. I forgot your birthday.
You will have to lose the leg.
She was asking for it.
It ran right under the car.
It looked like a gun. It’s contagious.
She’s with God now.
Help me. I don’t have a problem.
I’ve swallowed a bottle of aspirin.
I’m a doctor. I’m leaving you.
I love you. Fuck you. I’ll change."

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19841979: Taipei (4 Jun 2013, Vintage)

19841979:

Taipei (4 Jun 2013, Vintage)

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popserial: Timothy Willis Sanders’s story, “Dr. Packer,” is now online.

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Timothy Willis Sanders’s story, “Dr. Packer,” is now online.

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