Tao Lin is the author of the novels Taipei and Richard Yates and Eeeee Eee Eeee, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel, the story collection Bed, and the poetry collections cognitive-behavioral therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am. He was born in Virginia, has taught in Sarah Lawrence College's MFA program, and is the founder and editor of Muumuu House.
“Trip is, if not a guide to self-help, a book about a person trying
to be happier, in part by changing the kinds of drugs he uses. .
.another theory of psychedelics emerges, which suggests that the
most mystical revelations concern earthly themes: birth, death, and
the body; family, friends, and love.” —Emily Witt, The New
Yorker
“Trip is a sane book about becoming sane, and Lin’s most valuable
work to date.” —The Irish Times
"[Lin does] an incredible job describing what a psychedelic
experience feels like." —The Village Voice
“An immediately significant entry in the literature of derangement
and recovery.” —Vulture, “The Best Books of the Year (So Far)”
“[Lin’s] best yet. . . . His rendering of tripping is
perfect—better even. . .than Aldous Huxley’s elegant and evocative
passages in The Doors of Perception, because Lin’s account conveys
reverence and immersion without grandiosity. And that allows humor
to leak through. . . . A joy to read.” —Bookforum
“Addictive…. Strikingly vivid…. Lin coherently challenges the sense
behind labeling psychedelics as controlled substances…. A
kaleidoscopic fever dream of ideas, idolatry, and lots of drugs:
uniquely produced and curiously intoxicating.” —Kirkus
Reviews
“An introspective work…. [Lin] chronicles his experiences with
various psychedelic drugs in his first nonfiction book, weaving
autobiography, history, and spiritual journey together to pose
existential questions.” —Publishers Weekly
“Trip is not only a book about drugs--it's about the condition
of humans at this point in history, troublingly divorced from our
natural capacity for awe by our chemically depleted bodies and
minds. This book has changed how I understand myself on a cellular
level. It's a superbly researched, moving, and formally inventive
quest for re-enchantment, and Tao Lin's most compelling and
profound book yet.” —Sheila Heti, author of How Should a
Person Be?
"Trip transcends the ranks of drug memoirs to give us a
characteristically nontraditional, completely unique, hilarious,
tender, and at times frightening departure from everyday life such
as only Tao Lin can write. With fascinating specificity, it asks
essential questions about the nature of time, reality,
consciousness, and the self, while holding a looking glass up to
contemporary life, to ask, Is this really all there is?—and to
answer, No, the possibility for knowledge is endless, and we should
never cease searching." —Sarah Gerard, author of Sunshine
State
“Similar to the psychedelic drugs Tao Lin writes about here, this
book introduces new ways to consider language, perception, and
recovery. It’s a joy to watch Lin interrogate his obsessions so
earnestly and thoroughly in an attempt to understand more about the
world as he knows it. Trip is a book for anyone interested in
learning about what the human mind is capable of seeing and
believing.” —Chelsea Hodson, author of Tonight I’m Someone
Else
“Tao Lin took all the drugs so that we wouldn’t have to, and the
result is astonishing, mind-expanding, beautiful, and profound. The
whole of humanity seems contained in this one book.” —Kristen
Iskandrian, author of Motherest
“Tao Lin’s writing reliably restores my sense of the inexhaustible
strangeness of even one minute of human thought and feeling.”
—Michael W. Clune, author of White Out
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