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Karen Schechner

Karen Schechner is the senior Indie editor at Kirkus Reviews, and also an editor at Lambda Literary. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and is a member of the New York Mycological Society. She lives in North Salem, New York. icon

John Cage’s Mycological Legacy: Green Mountain National Forest, VT

By Karen Schechner

This is the latest installment of Public Streets, a biweekly urban observations series curated by Ellis Avery. When it comes to wild mushrooms, morels get a lot of love, but the chanterelle is the ...

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