{"id":88912,"date":"2015-08-18T10:16:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T14:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=88912"},"modified":"2015-08-18T11:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T15:00:21","slug":"tao-lin-on-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/18\/tao-lin-on-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tao Lin on <i>Bed<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y61g-hTT0N4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by our famous Writers at Work interviews, \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/myfirsttime\" target=\"_blank\">My First Time<\/a><\/strong>\u201d is a series of short videos about how writers got their start. Created by the filmmakers Tom Bean, Casey Brooks, and Luke Poling, each video is a portrait of the artist as a beginner\u2014and a look at the creative process, in all its joy, abjection, delusion, and euphoria.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s featured writer is\u00a0<strong>Tao Lin<\/strong>, whose first collection,\u00a0<em><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bed-Stories-Tao-Lin\/dp\/1933633263\" target=\"_blank\">Bed<\/a><\/u><\/em>, appeared in 2007. <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_842421311\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Tomorrow<\/span><\/span>, we\u2019ll hear from\u00a0<strong>Sheila Heti<\/strong>\u00a0about\u00a0<em>The Middle Stories<\/em>, her debut collection from 2001. In the meantime, you can watch the first set of \u201cMy First Time\u201d interviews, published in May:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/29\/christine-schutt-on-nightwork\/\"><strong>Christine Schutt<\/strong><\/a> on <em>Nightwork<\/em>, her first collection of stories<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/tag\/branden-jacobs-jenkins\/\"><strong>Branden Jacobs-Jenkins<\/strong><\/a> on his play <em>Neighbors<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/27\/gabrielle-bell-on-her-book-of-series\/\"><strong>Gabrielle Bell<\/strong><\/a> on\u00a0<em>The Book of &#8230;<\/em> series, her early cartoons<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/26\/j-robert-lennon-on-the-light-of-the-falling-stars\/\"><strong>J. 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