Maria Pinto @ Brooklyn Book Festival

Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless
What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
by Maria Pinto
240 pp., notes
ISBN 978-1-4696-8979-1 $24.00 paper
Publication date: October 28, 2025
For more information: https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469689791/fearless-sleepless-deathless/

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Branching Out: On the Future of Environmental Storytelling, presented by Orion Magazine

The genre of environmental writing has been expanding in recent years. Writers for Orion Magazine have pushed the boundaries of the genre by exploring the surprising intersections between nature writing and other forms, themes, and subjects. Nonfiction writers and Orion contributors Meera Subramanian (A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis), Maria Pinto (Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival), and Nicholas Triolo (The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere) join Orion publisher Neal Thompson to discuss these necessary evolutions in environmental writing and how they transform our view of the world.