Maria Pinto is a writer, mushroom hunter, and educator in the Boston area. She’s the Community Programs Teaching Fellow at Boston’s creative writing center, GrubStreet, and a fiction editor at Peripheries. She’s currently at work on a book of nonfiction inspired by mushrooms, forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press.
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Don’t Fear the Fungus
DURING THE OPENING CREDITS of the hit HBO series The Last of Us, a river of slime mold wends its way through darkness, through bushy foliate jelly mushrooms, arboreal earth tongues, Continue reading