Christopher Brown: 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...

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...

A Natural History of Empty Lotswww.hachettebookgroup.com A genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society.A Natural History of Empty Lots is a genre-de...

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...

I was lucky enough to persuade some generous colleagues to read it before the galleys are even ready, including @kellylink.bsky.social:

Fellow rewilding advocate and personal hero Jeff VanderMeer:

And the brilliant nature writer and climate journalist Michelle Nijhuis:

Just for fun, folks who preorder the book can also get a print version of Field Notes, the newsletter that spawned the book—details in today's edition: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/love-in-th...

Love in the Ruinsfieldnotes.christopherbrown.com Plus: A Cover Reveal (No. 148)

This book is one of the reasons I have been pretty quiet on social media over the past couple of years. I hope to be able to start finding my way around again here and elsewhere, as I get the word out and look for fresh perspectives & old friends. Thanks 🙏 www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chris...

The book looks real interesting. John Rogers (on YouTube - London flaneur) would enjoy it, as would Iain Sinclair.

I was sold on your first post but grew more and more invested the further into this thread! Preordered.

Thank you so much! 🙏🐺

one more reason to be excited for October!

this is so exciting!

Thank you!

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