Tao Lin, The Granta Podcast

In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Tao Lin, the author of ten books, including Leave Society and Taipei . We discuss two of Tao Lin’s recent essays, ‘ My Spiritual Evolution ’, and ‘ Gian ’, which appeared in Granta 171: Dead Friends, as well as the effects of psychedelics and the possibilities of reincarnation. Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books , the New Yorker , and the New Left Review , among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025). Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta .

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Tao Lin, The Granta Podcast is an episode from Granta by Granta Magazine.

This episode is 54:19 long.

This episode was published on Jul 11, 2025.

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