Book Club: Tao Lin’s Taipei
Taipei, Tao Lin’s third novel, features his characteristic stark and minimalist writing style. Paul, twenty-six, is a writer living amid book launches, restaurants, friends’ apartments, and art galleries while ingesting mushrooms, Ritalin, Adderall, Klonopin, psilocybin, MDMA, and other narcotics — all while harboring a tenuous relationship with his Taiwanese mother. The generally formless plot of […]