Rock legend Lou Reed's tai chi book to be published

In 2009, Lou Reed started a book on what had become an art core to his lifestyle: tai chi. But the project went unfinished when he died in 2013. A decade later those unpublished writings, along with conversations with his fellow artists and tai chi practioners, come out this week. Photo: AFP

Rock pioneer and poet Lou Reed began writing a book in 2009 on an art at the heart of his lifestyle: tai chi.

But the project went unfinished, remaining a collection of scattered notes when the groundbreaking musical experimentalist died in 2013 aged 71, after complications from a liver transplant.