in Siberia
Lawrence Millman is a man of many talents. As an author, he has written 21 books, including such titles as Last Places, A Kayak Full of Ghosts, An Evening Among Headhunters, Lost in the Arctic, and — most recently:

A Luddite Lexicon(2025) – Available July 15th

As a mycologist, he has studied fungi all over the world, but especially in his own backyard of New England. And as an explorer, he has made over 40 trips and expeditions to the Arctic and Subarctic. The photo shows him in a contemplative mood on a beach in Siberia.

What’s he’s up to

April — Reading and Signing
March — Publication of Outsider: My Boyhood with Thoreau.

Featured Review

The Book of Origins

Political correctness is the reigning disease of our time. If you agree with this observation, my most recent book, The Book of Origins, is just the book for you.
A collection of satiric stories, it owes its allegiance to George Carlin and Jonathan Swift, but not, definitely not, to Jane Austen. In its pages, you’ll learn about God’s failure as a supreme being and his subsequent retirement, the Dalai Lama’s pot habit, the poison ivy in the Garden of Eden, the Statue of Liberty being mistaken for a Nazi, a U.S. president who decides to attack another country because he’s horny, and numerous other previously undocumented incidents in our planet’s history. Not for kids or the faint of heart!

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK OF ORIGINS

“Is it possible to revere irreverence? I give The Book of Origins two unopposable thumbs up!” — Dan Barker, author of God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction

“If you read these strange bedtime stories one at a time to your child every night, he or she will grow up to be either Albert Einstein or a high literate inmate of an insane asylum.” — Andrei Codrescu, author of Bibliodeath

To obtain a copy of The Book of Origins, contact NFB Publishing
(mark@nfbpublishing.com), go to indiebound.org, or barnesandnoble.com.

Meeting an Ancient Creature

Posted on December 6, 2025 by Lawrence Millman

So there I was, swatting mosquitoes on Victoria Island in the CanadianArctic. I didn’t come to this relatively remote island because I wanted to engagein that vigorous activity, however. Rather, I came because I wanted to escapewhat writer Norman Douglas … Continue reading →

Outsider: My Boyhood with Thoreau

Posted on May 17, 2024 by Lawrence Millman

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 walking.” — Bill McKibben

Bad Doggy!

Posted on December 7, 2022 by Lawrence Millman

Hardly anything, not even an infant asleep in a stroller, raises the oxytocin of certain people to such Everest-like heights as the sight of a wide-eyed, round-headed Canis familiaris, otherwise known as a dog. Words like lovable, adorable, and cute emerge … Continue reading →

Paradise Found

Posted on October 14, 2018 by Lawrence Millman

Thanks to the unabashed tourist meccas of Nassau and Freeport, the word “Bahamas” calls up images of mega-gambling casinos, no less mega-cruise ships, package tours, and hordes of sun-reddened figures lying on a beach. But consider the 110 square mile … Continue reading →

A Luddite Lexicon – Available July 15

Posted on May 28, 2026 by Lawrence Millman

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 addictive toy. Almost everywhere
you go, automotive vehicles follow each other like a conga line of dogs in heat –
whatever happened to feet? The book will offer you a healthy, often amusing
alternative to that matrix in the form of a connection to the natural world.

“Thank goodness for A Luddite Lexicon, which offers a sharply humorous
corrective to the madness of progress. It may even inspire you to pick up a
hammer.” – Paul Kingsnorth, author of Against the Machine

“This book is the antidote to a world gone wrong. Read it and pass the
wisdom on to your children.” – David Breithaupt, reviewer for the L.A. Review of Books

“Lawrence Millman – the Ambrose Bierce of his time – elevates
curmudgeonliness to an art form here.” – Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun

“A Luddite Lexicon is a total treat! A delightful send-up of where we’ve
arrived in this crazy age.” – Robert Pyle, author of Nature Matrix and Wintergreen

Lawrence Millman

Author, Ethnographer, Mycologist

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