![]() ![]() It’s a fittingly eccentric end for “Entangled Life,” Sheldrake’s ebullient and ambitious exploration of a subject that surrounds us yet too few of us think about. Forget the trite literary pleasures of a gourmet meal or a champagne toast: Here is an author who marked the completion of his book by ingesting it. Taking another copy, he tore up the pages, mashed them up to release their sugars and fermented the solution into beer. He dampened a copy of the book and seeded it with spores, eating the oyster mushrooms that sprouted from its pages. ![]() For his new book, “Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures,” the young fungal biologist Merlin Sheldrake decided on a ritual I had never heard of, much less fathomed. Finishing the manuscript for a book is usually the consummation of years of work, and when writers emerge on the other side, they often try to do something appropriately celebratory. ![]()
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