Join us today at 3 p.m. ET on Facebook or right here on this page, as acclaimed author Tao Lin sits down with Casey Barrett to talk about his latest release, Leave Society (Vintage).
The novel tells the story of a writer named Li who leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn’t know it yet, but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on this trip. As he flies between these two worlds — year by year, over four years — he will flit in and out of optimism, despair, loneliness, sanity, bouts of chronic pain, and drafts of a new book. He will incite and temper arguments, uncover secrets about nature and history, and try to understand how to live a meaningful life as an artist and a son. But how to fit these pieces of his life together? Where to begin? Or should he leave society altogether? It’s an engrossing, hopeful novel about life, fiction, and where the two blur together. Read Casey’s review here.
Tao is also the author of several previous works, including the memoir Trip, 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.
