Edited by Anja Charbonneau and Stephanie Madewell

What is a mushroom? What do mushrooms mean? What do mushrooms do? What do we want from mushrooms? What do the mushrooms want?

These are the questions asked and answered in Mushroom People, a special-edition magazine for mycophiles. In these pages, artists, writers, and fungi enthusiasts from around the world explore mushroom fact and fantasy, collecting specimens of all kinds: the strange and familiar, beautiful and ugly, toxic and healing, ephemeral and enduring.

Inside this first issue of Mushroom People, Bethany van Rijswijk delves into the folklore of the magic mushroom, arrangements by Leslie Kirchhoff and Yasmine Khatib prove that mushrooms are the new flowers, Claire L. Evans goes inside the trip report forum Erowid, Zoe Gong heals what ails us, Adrienne Kammerer paints a slug’s-eye-view, William Padilla-Brown talks citizen mycology, Shruti Ravindran breaks down the neuroscience of tripping, and Lio Min searches for counter-culture on the forest floor. Plus: MycoAstrology, Mushroom Fashion Week, the search for a lost perfume, hacking a chat-shroom in the Wood Wide Web, glowing mushroom lamps, Mixtec transcendental gastronomy, a mushroom burial suit, and much more.

The Peculiar Parish Bookshop is honored to share this first issue of Mushroom People with you.

Cover illustration by Adrienne Kammerer. Published by Broccoli (2021). A new magazine in perfect condition. First printing.

192-page perfect-bound magazine, A4 size. Features three premium paper stocks and sewn binding.