I'm delighted to share the cover of my new book A Natural History of Empty Lots, now available for preorder—"a genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society." www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chris...
A Natural History of Empty Lots is the record of my twenty-year experiment exploring, living in and documenting the edgelands where human cities and wild nature collide. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chris...
It’s nature writing, but not by a professional naturalist—I am a dystopian novelist, a lawyer, and a dad whose children helped him rediscover the outdoors without leaving the city. www.bookpeople.com/book/9781643...
The book tries to break through conventional ways we experience and think about nature, starting with language and narrative inversion. It seeks out the wild in landscapes marred by human industry, and finds portals to escape the alienated haze of everyday life: bookshop.org/p/books/a-na...
It's hopeful about our climate future, but provisionally so—documenting the remarkable resilience of nature and finding paths to a greener world we each can help achieve, while reckoning with the incapacity of human power structures to get us there: christopherbrown.com/a-natural-hi...
