Strange Attractor launches in New York 16-18 Oct

Strange Attractor book launches in NYC and @ COSM 16-18 Oct. Poster by Martin Kondwani

I'm very happy to announce upcoming book launches this week for Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna by Graham St John

Book reading, discussion with the author, buy signed copies.

Thursday Oct 16, 2025

Alchemists Kitchen Elixir Bar, 117 Crosby St, New York, NY 10012

Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm 

Buy signed copies $35

Tickets at Eventbrite

​Friday Oct 17 , 2025

Gospel, 281 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012

Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm 

Buy signed copies $35

Tickets at Eventbrite

Saturday, Oct 18, 2025

COSM: Chapel of Sacred Mirrors46 Deer Hill Road, Wappinger NY, 12590

Time: 2PM-5PM

Buy signed copies $35 (cash only).

​​Tickets at: COSM

Visionary Salon with Graham St John

Info on all forthcoming launch events here.

Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (MIT Press, foreword by Erik Davis) is now published in paperback and eBook from MIT Press https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049573/strange-attractor/

"A captivatingly humanizing depiction" revealed in . . . "an account as weird, wild, and nontraditional as its subject"

--Publishers Weekly

“Graham St John is our best contemporary historian of psychedelic culture. This biography is filled with wonders, striking the perfect balance between historical accuracy and sympathetic engagement.”

—Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam

"Strange Attractor will rightfully take its place in the psychedelic canon as an accomplished work of biography, evincing deep research and a sympathetic, though not uncritical, approach to McKenna’s life and work."

--Ben Brooker, The Monthly

Meticulously researched and exquisitely written, this is the definitive portrait of the tryptamine elf king.

~David Jay Brown, author of The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities

"Beautifully written and impossible to put down . . . A real triumph in the art of biography."

—Libbie Grant, bestselling author of The Prophet’s Wife, The Ragged Edge of Night (as Olivia Hawker), and other novels

More details: https://www.edgecentral.net/terence-mckenna-biography