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Tao Lin

Tao Lin is the author of ten books, including Leave Society and Taipei. ‘Gian’ is part of his in-progress essay collection Reasons to Live. He lives in Hawaii.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 171
Essays & Memoir | Issue 171

Gian

Tao Lin

‘I felt compelled to publish our potentially worrying, arguably unseemly texts, in which we discussed buying, selling, trading and using a broad assortment of illegal drugs’

Tao Lin on his friendship and correspondence with Giancarlo DiTrapano.

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

My Spiritual Evolution

Tao Lin

‘I came to feel that I was hiding here in the physical world, like a child who hides in a computer game to escape a more consequential reality.’

Tao Lin on his spiritual awakening, via psychedelics and the literature of near-death experiences.

In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

In Conversation

Tao Lin & Anna Dorn

‘Do you ever prefer speaking to written communication?’

The authors discuss nature and the psyche, confessional writing and Wikipedia.

Fiction | Issue 156 padlock
Fiction | Issue 156 padlock

Variations

Tao Lin

‘But in variation #5 they spent ten hours together.’

An extract from Tao Lin’s novel Leave Society.

In Conversation | Issue 156
In Conversation | Issue 156

Sheila Heti and Tao Lin In Conversation

Sheila Heti & Tao Lin

Sheila Heti and Tao Lin discuss writing about motherhood and psychedelics, what changes when you begin to write under contract, and narrative forms that mimic the menstrual cycle.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 156
Essays & Memoir | Issue 156

Three Japanese Books

Samantha Harvey, Phil Klay & Tao Lin

‘Each word is a snowflake falling, and with each paragraph the snow settles deeper.’

Fiction | Issue 127
Fiction | Issue 127

Final Fantasy III

Tao Lin

‘On the F train to Manhattan I emailed a friend in the UK. I said I couldn’t write my essay about Japan.’

In Conversation | Issue 127
In Conversation | Issue 127

Tao Lin | Interview

Tao Lin & Yuka Igarashi

Yuka Igarashi talks to Tao Lin about sense of place within the novel Taipei, his online presence and abstraction and metaphor in his writing.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 127
Essays & Memoir | Issue 127

Tao Lin | On Tour

Tao Lin

‘The editor of the Oregonian’s books section (Powell’s employees later confirmed to me that it was him, but they could be wrong) attended, I think, and asked in what sounded to me like an accusatory, non-curious voice if I was on drugs.’

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