Maria Pinto, who delivered a riveting lecture to NYMS in 2023, returns to New York in support of her new book Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival. The event takes place at Greenlight Bookstore where former NYMS president Eugenia Bone will join Maria Pinto in conversation and Q & A. Read more about the book below.
Monday, November 3rd – 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Greenlight Bookstore
686 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Writer, educator, and mycophile Maria Pinto presents Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless, a stunning debut that uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. Mingling reportage, research, memoir, and nature writing, Pinto brings a new perspective and a distinctive literary voice to this mix of environmental and lived history—ranging from Black farmers’ domestication of the unforgettable aroma of truffles to the possibility that enslaved people wielded mycological poisons against their enslavers. With “echoes of Jamaica Kincaid and Annie Dillard” (Publishers Weekly), every page of Pinto’s work sings with her enthusiasm for the networks in which we are embedded: fungal, ecological, ancestral, and communal. Internationally known food and nature writer Eugenia Bone joins Pinto for a reading and discussion, before an audience Q&A.
