521. Tao Lin

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2018

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Brad Listi talks with Tao Lin, author of TRIP: PSYCHEDELICS, ALIENATION, AND CHANGE (Vintage). Lin's other books include Taipei (2013), Richard Yates (2010), Shoplifting from American Apparel (2009), cognitive-behavioral therapy (2008), Eeeee Eee Eeee (2007), Bed (2007), & you are a little bit happier than i am (2006). He is also the author of Selected Tweets (2015) with Mira Gonzalez. He is the founder and editor of Muumuu House and lives in New York City (but is probably moving to Hawaii). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Other People podcast is offered freely.
0:02.7	All episodes of this show, more than 500 and counting, are all available for free.
0:07.6	If you would like to support this podcast, you can do so at patreon.com slash other ppl pod.
0:13.8	That's patreon.com slash other ppl pod.
0:17.7	Thank you.
0:19.9	You are not alone.
0:22.3	You have found other people.
0:25.7	You and I have a friend in common.
0:28.3	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.
0:31.1	I think it's really beautiful.
0:32.7	What I struggle, you know?
0:35.1	It's incredible.
0:36.3	You look like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listing. Just one person at just one time. Hey, everybody. How's it going? Welcome to the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. It's nice to be with you. I'm really happy to have Tao Lin back on the program.
0:59.4	He is celebrating the publication of his first full-length or book-length work of nonfiction.
1:04.5	The book is called Trip, Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change.
1:06.1	It is available now from Vintage.
1:10.4	It is also the official may pick of the Nervous Breakdown Book Club.
1:14.6	The Nervous Breakdown.com is my online culture magazine and literary community.
1:16.5	It has its own monthly book club. So, Tau Lin and I in conversation talking about psychedelics and a bunch of other stuff,
1:23.8	that's coming up in just a second.
1:26.1	I took Twiggy, my dog, into the groomer today for the first time.
1:31.7	She's transitioning out of this puppy phase where she was small enough for me to like bathe at home in one of these little tubs in the backyard.
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