Nonfiction

The ARK Series presents author Michael Pollan in conversation with Nick Powers, PhD at the Portland'5 Keller Auditorium on Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 8pm. For the past 25 years, Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times bestsellers (including The Botany of Desire and The Omnivore’s Dilemma), has been writing about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and, now, in the plants and fungi humans use to alter consciousness. Pollan’s unique and elegant blend of science, history, travel writing, and first person reportage has inspired millions of readers to look at familiar experiences in a whole new light while sparking vital national conversations about our relationship to the natural world. In a talk based on…