REPLAY: Tao Lin on Psychedelics, Attention, and Change
Otherppl with Brad Listi | Books & Culture
Leaving Society Through Attention
Tao clarifies that leaving society means changing consumption, cultural attention, and thought patterns while focusing on writing and close relationships.
Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 521, my conversation with Tao Lin, author of Trip: Psychedelics, Attention, and Change (Vintage).
Air date: May 20, 2018.
Tao Lin is the author of the novels Leave Society and Taipei, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel, and other books. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Harper's Magazine, Granta, The Paris Review, NOON, and elsewhere. He was born in Virginia, has taught in Sarah Lawrence College’s MFA program, and is the founder and editor of Muumuu House.
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