Lawrence Millman · author, ethnographer, mycologist

Lawrence Millman. Being a backward sort of guy, I’ve always liked to hang out with similarly backward people. An example: the Iban of Borneo....

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Among Headhunters · November 5, 2026

“… elevates curmudgeonliness to an art form here.” Bill McKibben, on A Luddite Lexicon

21 books · thirty-five trips and expeditions to the Arctic and Subarctic · 389 fungal species recorded at Fresh Pond

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November 5, 2026

Among Headhunters

Being a backward sort of guy, I’ve always liked to hang out with similarly backward people. An example: the Iban of Borneo. That they were head-hunters, or former headhunters, didn’t bother me. At least they weren’t…
October 30, 2026

Among the Stricken

Once upon an earlier time I visited two different groups of former headhunters, the Shuar in Ecuador and the Iban in Sarawak. “Former” tends to be a somewhat free-ranging word. What’s former one day may not be former…
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…
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…
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…
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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Michael Pollan, on Fungipedia
The master of the remote.
Bruce Chatwin
Lawrence Millman - the Ambrose Bierce of his time - elevates curmudgeonliness to an art form here.
Bill McKibben, on A Luddite Lexicon