Tao Lin
Spirituality, literature, health, nature, psychedelics, cats, feral pigs, prehistory, cosmology, parapsychology, and other topics.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 80 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 5 months ago |
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Feral Pig Update
It’s been almost one year since my post “My Feral Pig Friends.” I have a new favorite feral pig. When I first saw her, half her head was very injured. She had a large hole in her ear, a bloody wound, and her left eye was swollen shut. Over...
Reincarnation
This was played on a loop in a room at Ghost Party in Los Angeles on October 30.
Reincarnation is believed by 40 to 50 percent, I estimate*, of humans. It’s believed in some form by adherents of Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese folk rel...
Shoplifting from American Apparel (2009)
Full text of my ~18,000-word novella.
I wrote this when I was 25. It was published when I was 26. I still like it. It’s out-of-print, but I own the rights. My agent Julie Flanagan is going to work on getting a new publisher for it next yea...
"Nini," a ~9000-word essay on my cat Nini
Read it here. Below is a photo narrative to accompany the essay. Thank you, Nini, for being my friend and muse. I love telling people about you.
The early days of Nini. He was probably eight or nine weeks old here.
Nini has bathed two or...
Poem Drafted After Meditating for Ten Minutes
I wrote this poem in 2023. An earlier draft of it was published in 2024 in issue three of The End. I’ve made one edit to it since then, deleting the last line.
reincarnation mandala (2025)
Poem Drafted After Meditating for Te...
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I'm the author of ten books, including Leave Society, Trip, and Taipei. I live in Hawaii.
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