You're Not Much Use to Anyone: A Novel

David is a freshly minted NYU grad who's working a not-quite-entry-level job, falling in love, and telling his parents he's studying for the LSAT. He starts a Tumblr blog, typing out posts on his BlackBerry under his desk-a blog that becomes wildly popular and brings him to the attention of major media (*The New York Times*) as well as the White House. But his outward fame doesn't quell his confusion about the world and his direction in it. *In A Sense of Wonder* author Gideon Lewis-Kraus's words, "If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the *Bright Lights, Big City* of the click-here-now generation."