Plants & Gardens The Light Eaters, Zoë Schlanger Gardening Can Be Murder, Marta McDowell Unrooted, Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 Most Delicious Poison, Noah Whitman The Garden Against Time, Olivia Laing A Natural History of Empty Lots Christopher Brown full titles in ALT

A Natural History of Empty Lots, Christopher Brown: “We tend to ignore the wild nature that lives in the city, right under our noses, integrated into the fabric of our everyday life.” christopherbrown.com/a-natural-hist…

re-read Tropic of Kansas to start the year & despite it all its closing still gets me

Field Notes from the holiday fortnight, with Chupacabra screams, horny foxes behind the factories, hungry hawks in empty lots, pagan fortune-telling as family fun, and bright-eyed Kindergarten bike rides through the ruins of the world we made: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/molybdomance…

Delighted to be included in this amazing group of Austin folks 🙏

Look what has just arrived! I’ve had my beady eye on this one for a while. It’s only just come out in the UK. Very excited to dive in. #ChristopherBrown #NaturalHistoryofEmptyLots #hachette #nonfiction #environmentalwriting #memoir #nature #anthropocene

More Marty Hench from the unstoppable Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK—I’m in!

Available today in the UK!

Field Notes from the cold snap that precedes the inauguration, with celestial objects, underground queens, and Octavia Butler daydreams: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/flight-track…

The final paragraph of Christopher Brown’s ‘A Natural History of Empty Lots’: “Things that can be explained by science, but also understood by poets”. More of this kind of thinking, please! A beautiful book. #christopherbrown #nonfiction #environmentalwriting #poetry #science

Some Field Notes from a cold Lupercalia, with airport bird nests, post-industrial heronries, ruins of the twentieth century, dreams of rewilded futures, and an island getaway through the Bermuda Triangle with Henry Kissinger: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/nest-buildin…

I had a blast talking with Fergal Byrne SustainabilityAgenda about Empty Lots, rewilding, and green futures: thesustainabilityagenda.com/podcast/episod…

Exploring the edgelands-Texas and beyond w/ Christopher Brown Thrilled to post this fascinating conversation on the overlooked margins of urban landscapes, urban rewilding, the resilience of nature & much more w/ readings from: A natural history of empty lots! shorturl.at/WlgdX

In "From Vacant to Vital: Rethinking the Role of Empty Lots in North American Cities," Carmen Gilmore reflects on Christopher Brown's A Natural History of Empty Lots. niche-canada.org/2025/02/20/fro… #envhist #nathist #urbanstudies #urbanecology #yxe

George McFly Day! ...after a year of work, this is the day every writer looks forward to - the day your box of books arrives from the publisher DI Duffy #8, HANG ON ST CHRISTOPHER is in the world

this is nice too HANG ON ST CHRISTOPHER is a best book of the month on amazon 🙂

Grackles, concrete, ancient oaks, true names of the Gulf, and Tropic of Kansas memories, in the latest Field Notes: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/jackdaws-fre…

Abandoned lots and the future? 🏚️🌱 @NB_chris book A Natural History of Empty Lots reveals the unexpected biodiversity, resilience & hidden ecosystems in urban spaces. Bonus: new sound by Cat Byrne, Clapton edgelands (i): catbyrne.com Tune in: shorturl.at/j0JGL

The unstoppable Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK right now at First Light Books in Austin, presenting Picks & Shovels to the SRO @SXSW crowd:

I've always been a huge fan of back alleys, empty lots, old cars in overgrown fields, dens, desire paths, condemned buildings (don't do I what I do & go in these (asbestos/sepsis/roof collapse)), old canals & railways etc. this & great writing are & why I love these books: