Part memoir part history part journalistic exposé Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs
literature and alienation from one of the twenty-first century's most innovative
novelists--The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a new generation. A Vintage Original. While
reeling from one of the most creative--but at times self-destructive--outpourings of his life
Tao Lin discovered the strange and exciting work of Terence McKenna. McKenna the leading
advocate of psychedelic drugs since Timothy Leary became for Lin both an obsession and a
revitalizing force. In Trip Lin's first book-length work of nonfiction he charts his recovery
from pharmaceutical drugs his surprising and positive change in worldview and his four-year
engagement with some of the hardest questions: Why do we make art? Is the world made of
language? What happens when we die? And is the imagination more real than the universe? In
exploring these ideas and detailing his experiences with psilocybin DMT salvia and cannabis
Lin takes readers on a trip through nature his own past psychedelic culture and the unknown.