Join Eugenia Bone and Rhode Island Mycological Society Members for this Special Event celebrating the release of, HAVE A GOOD TRIP: Exploring the Magic Mushroom Experience at Symposium Bookstore! More Details about this magical evening to come!

Eugenia Bone

is a food and nature writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Food & Wine, and the BBC Science Focus. A former president of the NY Mycological Society and the author of Mycophilia, she appeared as an expert in the documentary Fantastic Fungi and has deep ties throughout the mushroom community. Bone is also an award-nominated cookbook author and chef. She lives in New York City.

Praise for HAVE A GOOD TRIP :

“Bone serves up an eye-opening examination of the science and benefits of

psilocybin mushrooms . . . The elegant blend of scientific research, stories of

individual mushroom users, and Bone’s own experiences with the drug make for

a study that’s as eclectic as it is stimulating. This will expand readers’ minds.”

Publishers Weekly

“Beautifully composed, Eugenia Bone’s book is a trip in itself.”

—Suzanne Simard, PhD, forest ecologist and author of Finding the Mother

Tree

“Eugenia Bone does it again! She takes the reader on a deep dive into the rapidly

emerging practice of psilocybin use with a balanced view toward benefits,

potential pitfalls, and ever-expanding applications. I unabashedly recommend this

book for all those contemplating or currently engaged with psilocybin

mushrooms.”—Paul Stamets, author of Mycelium Running

“Finally a book that offers more answers than questions about the contemporary relationship between humans and

ancient sacred mushrooms. Whether you’re an experienced traveler or new to the journey, Eugenia takes us on a

fun and fantastic much-needed trip.”—Giuliana Furci, founding director of the Fungi Foundation

“Eugenia Bone provides excellent and sage insights on every step of the psychedelic journey, from sourcing

mushrooms through to dosing and even integrating the experiences afterward, all illustrated with some excellent

trippers’ tales. Everyone from seasoned freaks to the newly psy-curious will find something of interest here.”

—Andy Letcher, PhD, author of Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom and senior lecturer

at the University of Exeter

“As someone who has had an uncountable number of glorious trips and also has lost their damn mind, I’ve been waiting for a more balanced articulation of this psychedelic renaissance. With Have a Good Trip’s focus on accuracy over hype or hysteria, we might not only avoid a trip to the psych ward but even make the most out of our experiences.”

—Shane Mauss, comedian and host of the Here We Are podcast

In HAVE A GOOD TRIP: Exploring the Magic Mushroom Experience, which goes on sale October 22nd, 2024,

from Flatiron Books, popular science writer and amateur mycologist, Eugenia Bone, reports on the state of

psychedelics today, from microdosing to heroic trips, while deftly illustrating how “citizen science” and anecdotal

accounts of the mushrooms’ benefits are leading the new wave of scientific inquiry into psilocybin. Simply put, it is

not a how-to guide, but rather a highly informative and entertaining resource for the mushroom-curious, answering

all the questions people are asking about the storied drug.

Interest in psychedelic mushrooms has never been greater. Celebrities and athletes from Mike Tyson to Prince

Harry have touted the powerful healing potential of using psilocybin or “magic mushrooms,” which have helped

them overcome depression, suicidal thoughts, trauma, and grief. And books like Michael Pollan's #1 New York

Times bestseller and its subsequent Netflix docu-series of the same name How to Change Your Mind have only

increased cultural curiosity and mainstream interest in magic mushrooms that continues to extrapolate each year. But

while interest in psychedelic mushrooms has never been greater, never has the science been less definitive.

Which is where Bone comes in. With her signature blend of first-person narrative and scientific rigor, here, the

journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Food & Wine, and who was a key

talking head in the documentary Fantastic Fungi (the trailer alone has 2M views), examines the science of psilocybin

mushrooms, while breaking down just how the complicated cocktail of psychoactive compounds is thought to interact

with our brain chemistry. She explains how mindset and setting can impact a trip and vividly evokes the personalities

and protocols that populate the tripping scene, from the renegade “’Noccers” of Washington who merrily disperse

magic mushroom spores around Seattle, to the indigenous curanderas who conduct traditional ceremonies in remote

Mexican villages, to the stay-at-home dads in Brooklyn, growing shrooms in their apartment as a side-hustle. For both

seasoned trippers and the merely mushroom curious, HAVE A GOOD TRIP offers a balanced, entertaining, and

provocative look at this rapidly evolving cultural phenomenon.

As Publishers Weekly says of the book in a rave review: “Bone serves up an eye-opening examination of the

science and benefits of psilocybin mushrooms . . . The elegant blend of scientific research, stories of

individual mushroom users, and Bone’s own experiences with the drug make for a study that’s as eclectic

as it is stimulating. This will expand readers’ minds.”