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A Luddite Lexicon
A dictionary of words and phrases set against the technological matrix.
$14.95
Author, ethnographer, mycologist
Lawrence Millman
Books, fungi, and a long habit of going to places that are hard to reach. He has made thirty-five trips and expeditions to the Arctic and Subarctic.
Most writing about mushroom lore today is secondhand. His isn’t.
From the Bog
All from the Bog-
October 19, 2026
A Most Valuable Utensil
Wherever I happen to go, I always take a pencil with me. Write down that damn story immediately, the pencil I have in my hand will declare, and I feel obliged to obey its request. Sometimes I’ll scribble the story in…
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October 12, 2026
Kuujjuaq Project Report
To the best of my knowledge, no one had ever given serious attention to the fungi (i.e., mushrooms) of the Kuujjuaq region before my August 12-18, 2007 visit. During this visit, I collected ~ 60 different species…
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October 4, 2026
The Monster
Once upon an earlier time I was a prisoner war at an academic institution. Behind metaphoric bars, I was obliged to teach remarkably ambiguous works of literature. Likewise I was obliged to attend meetings the main…
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October 1, 2026
A Luddite Lexicon – Available July 15
A Luddite Lexicon is a dictionary of words and phrases that speak out against the technological matrix currently enveloping our planet. Inside that matrix, a mobile phone is a religious object, and a television is an…
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October 1, 2026
Meeting an Ancient Creature
So there I was, swatting mosquitoes on Victoria Island in the Canadian Arctic. I didn’t come to this relatively remote island because I wanted to engage in that vigorous activity, however. Rather, I came because I…
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October 1, 2026
Outsider: My Boyhood with Thoreau
Credit unknown. I am excited to share my latest book, available at better bookstores everywhere. “Thoreau, I think. would have wanted you to carry Outsider in your hip pocket, to be mulled over in small bites while…
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Praise
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This little book is big fun.
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The master of the remote.
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Lawrence Millman - the Ambrose Bierce of his time - elevates curmudgeonliness to an art form here.
Next talks and walks
Calendar-
Millman Mushroom Walk @ Mount Auburn Cemetery MA
Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 2:00 PM EDT
Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Books
All books A Luddite Lexicon
$14.95
A dictionary of words and phrases set against the technological matrix.
Outsider: My Boyhood with Thoreau
Write for price
A memoir of preferring the out-of-doors, and of Henry David Thoreau as a childhood mentor.
Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore
$18.95
An illustrated A–Z of mushroom lore, with more than 180 entries. One of the AIGA Top 50 Books / 50 Covers of 2021.
Ways to work with Lawrence
Questions
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