![]() Hey Tao, how’s it going? You’re in Hawaii right now? Below is our conversation, lightly edited for clarity. Tao and I talked about 9/11, anti-gravity technology, grounding, breathing, his parents, and the mysterious origins of the universe. To promote it, he’s been blogging on a blogspot called Leave Society. ![]() Tao’s next novel, Leave Society, drops Summer 2021. Brett Easton Ellis called him “the most interesting prose stylist of his generation.” Elon Musk is a fan. His deadpan, detached, minimalist style should be recognizable to people who’ve never read a word of his. Over the course of eight books-two poetry collections, one book of short stories, one novella, three novels, and one book of nonfiction-he’s defined the voice of the internet generation. In reality, Tao has been staggeringly influential as an author. I wasn’t really aware of him prior to 2020, so I had the luxury of not being nervous about speaking with him, otherwise I may have overthought what I wanted to say. “I’d listen to him though,” he said, “RC is never wrong.” A week later, an interview with Tao Lin was set up.Īs far as I’m aware, this is one of the few phone interviews Tao’s done-one can’t discount his appearances on the LA Review of Books & The Paris Review-and I was glad to find that he was transparent and engaging. When I asked, my contact at Countere, who this was, he shrugged. ’ Below, a signature in red unfamiliar to me. There was only one sentence on the crinkled white printer paper: ‘Ask him about. Sure enough, a Grumman Long Life van swerved down my street and dropped a letter by my feet. I wasn’t quite sure who they were-there were rumors I’m not comfortable sharing publicly here-but I was told to wait by the mailbox on the third Tuesday of September for a USPS truck carrying a postcard from San Francisco. After proposing a feature on Tao Lin, I received an email back from the general contact inbox telling me to expect the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine himself to be in touch. Pictured is a pig-dragon.People often read Countere and the first question they ask me is: “Who is the director behind the site?” The answer is more enigmatic than people expect. “Real” pieces have sold for more than a million dollars. The pieces on eBay are viewed as fake by museums and most archaeologists-which is why they’re so cheap-but Anderson’s research shows they are real. ![]() Anderson, author of Hongshan Jade Treasures (2012), graverobbers got most of the pieces, and now sell them on eBay. I’ve been getting them cheap off eBay-around $20 per piece. Last year, I started collecting art by the Hongshan culture, a Goddess-worshipping culture that existed from around 6,700 to 4,900 years ago to Northern China. My diet has evolved continually since then-I was vegetarian, then vegan, then raw vegan, then paleo, and now have been trying eating only meat and fruit. My interest in health started in late high school and in college, when I learned I had some control over my health-through diet, exercise, etc. When did you become interested in health and how did you adopt your current diet and sensibility towards food? I feel good that it reached many people, and that many people found inspiration from the ideas in it, and that I got to spread the ideas in it-ideas from Riane Eisler on partnership societies, from Eric Lerner on the Big Bang being wrong, from Stephanie Seneff on health, from Katie Singer on the harms of electromagnetic radiation. It’s been praised highly by some, while others have reviewed it skeptically and snarkily. Your recent novel “Leave Society” has been praised very highly how do you feel about the response to the book given that it’s so referential to your own lived experiences? He encouraged me, and over four months I wrote the essay. I was reluctant at first, saying my views on autism were controversial, and contradicted the dominant view on autism. In June of this year, Noah Kumin, editor of Mars Review of Books, emailed me asking if I’d write about autism for his magazine. I started researching autism in around 2015 for my novel Leave Society (2021). Can you talk a bit about your recent essay, “The Story of Autism: How We Got Here, How We Heal” and how you began conducting research on Autism?
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