Experimental poet Tan Lin: ambiently breaking reading conventions

Colin Marshall talks to Tan Lin, professor of English and creative writing at New Jersey City University and author of the books Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe, BlipSoak01 and Heath (Plagiarism/Outsource). His latest book, Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking, uses its form to escape the notions, conventions and structures of the traditional reading experience.

Tan Lin’s Tumblr

Tan Lin’s books: Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe (New American Poetry), Blipsoak01, Heath (Plagiarism/Outsource), Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking: [AIRPORT NOVEL MUSICAL POEM PAINTING FILM PHOTO HALLUCINATION LANDSCAPE] (Wesleyan Poetry)

Technology/business/culture writer Nicholas Carr (1959 - )

Architect Rem Koolhaas (1944 - )

Irma Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker’s Joy of Cooking

Tan Lin’s BOMB Magazine interview

7 Controlled Vocabularies, Lulu edition

Writer David Shields (1956 - ) and Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

David Shields on The Marketplace of Ideas

Jonathan Beller’s The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)