August 11, 2021 | Interview
the novel as a kind of organism: an interview with Tao Lin
Kristen Iskandrian
To try to allay his doubt, or figure out of it’s real, [Li] mentally consults his in-progress novel, as if it were a friend. He intuits, in an intuition described by the line you quoted, that his doubt is wrong, is habitual and self-sabotalogical.
