Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change

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Part memoir, part history, part journalistic exposé, Trip is a have a look at psychedelic drugs, literature, and alienation from one of the most twenty-first century’s most innovative novelists–The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a new generation. A Vintage Original.

Whilst isolating himself to work on his novel Taipei, Tao Lin found out the prolific work of Terence McKenna–the leading advocate of psychotropic drugs since Timothy Leary. Tao became obsessed with McKenna, whose worldview (and particular theory of drug use) appeared to present an alternate way of being. In Trip, Tao’s first ever book-length work of nonfiction, he explores parallels between McKenna’s life and his own in a far-reaching seek for answers to looming questions: Why do we make art? What is language for? And are there crucial, universal truths in the market, beyond our limited range of perception?

Trip takes readers on a commute through psychedelic culture, from D.A.R.E. to Aldous Huxley, from NYU’s Bobst Library to a plant-drawing class in Santa Rosa, California. Drawing on first-person exploratory journalism in addition to in-depth research, Tao details the experience of taking psilocybin, DMT, and cannabis, studies their chemical composure and legality, and ends his story with a pilgrimage out West, where he communes with McKenna’s ex-wife and fellow “ethnobotanist,” Kathleen Harrison.

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