CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/25/2024

Hot Book Alert! 'Let's Become Fungal' is back in stock!

Featured spreads are from Let's Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts, a staff favorite illustrated reader whose subtitle—Based on Conversations with Indigenous Wisdom Keepers, Artists, Curators, Feminists and Mycologists—explains much of what makes it so special. A passionate paean by Mexico City-based curator and researcher Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez to mycological activism and Indigenous fungal knowledge spanning Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia, this 336-page paperback includes redolent illustrations by Berlin-based Chilean artist Rommy González and chapters that touch on collaboration, decoloniality, nonlinearity, toxicity, mobilization, biomimicry, death and being nonbinary—all through the auspices of the world of fungi. Read up, and resist the demand for purity, embrace mystery and surprise, de-zombify and re-train your senses and find your fungal alter ego!