Author of BECOMING EARTH: HOW OUR PLANET CAME TO LIFE (Random House, 6/2024) ✵ Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine and Scientific American ✵ 🇱🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈 ✵ Surname rhymes with neighbor ✵ https://www.ferrisjabr.com/
Join me 8PM ET tonight for a virtual book talk via Secret Science Club!
Register here: secretscienceclub.blogspot.com
Bring your own cocktail/mocktail! Signup includes recipe for a "Pale Blue Dot" drink
The Becoming Earth tour is heading to the East Coast! I'm thrilled to be in conversation with some truly brilliant writers:
7/16: Cambridge: Porter Square Books w/ @deborahb.bsky.social
7/17: Brooklyn: Greenlight w/ @carlzimmer.bsky.social
7/19: DC: Politics & Prose w/ @rossandersen.bsky.social
People are checking out BECOMING EARTH —literally! Extremely heartening to see so many holds at libraries in Portland, Seattle, LA, the Bay Area and beyond. Thank you, readers! 🙏🏼
p.s. support your local library ✨📚✨
A full house at Town Hall Seattle! Thank you so much to all my wonderful Seattle friends for rallying, Elliott Bay for co-organizing, the renowned Dr. Suzanne Simard for joining me on stage, & NSWA for the post event festivities. A fantastic conversation w/ astute audience questions
Shout out to the 100-year-old Helen Bernhard Bakery in Portland for crafting this stunning literary confection, featuring edible images of my US and UK book covers— the star of yesterday’s launch party!
Could not have asked for a better launch day at @powells.bsky.social ! So many people showed up that it became a standing room only event!
So grateful to my local community and readers for their support 🙏🏼 and to Emma Marris for being a brilliant conversation partner
Four Junes ago, my partner Ryan and I bought our first house and started creating our dream garden
One year ago to the day, we got married in a forest
Tomorrow, my debut book is officially published (& features our garden)
June is proving to be a momentous month in our lives!
San Francisco! One week from today, please join me and the brilliant Jenny Odell @jennitaur.bsky.social at the Commonwealth Club, for an evening of conversation inspired by my new book, Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
Tickets + More info: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-...
Seattle! One week from today, please join me and the esteemed forest ecologist Dr. Suzanne Simard at Town Hall Seattle for an evening of conversation inspired by my new book, Becoming Earth
Tickets + more info: townhallseattle.org/event/ferris...
Hope to see you there!
Portland, Oregon! One week from today, please join me at @powells.bsky.social for the launch of my debut book, Becoming Earth
Pro tip: If you buy a copy on the 25th, you get 15% off all books purchased that day
There will also be stickers, magnets, travel photos, and amazing science facts
Sisyrinchium has become one of my favorite garden plants. Though often called blue or yellow-eyed grass, it’s actually a member of the Iris family. Many species native to N America. Clumping; spreads politely. Easy to share. Looks esp good near water + w/ other Irises
Becoming Earth is out on June 25 and I'm going on tour! First up: Portland > Seattle > Bay Area
Thrilled to be in conversation with the brilliant Emma Marris, Suzanne Simard, @jennitaur.bsky.social and Obi Kaufmann
Please note the Seattle and SF events are ticketed
East coast in mid July!
Finished copies are here!
A few boxes containing finished copies of my book, Becoming Earth, recently arrived on our doorstep. Jack helped me open them. I think he approves!
Just two weeks until pub day!
Thrilled to share that Becoming Earth has received its second ⭐️starred review⭐️, this time from Booklist, which calls it, "beautifully written, exquisitely detailed, and finely researched" 🙏
Many gardeners consider color blocking, monochromatic groupings, or otherwise limited palettes to be guiding principles. Maybe one day I'll agree, but at this stage of my gardening journey, I find that aesthetic a bit dull. I want *all* the colors, close together.
Give me the full rainbow, baby! ⭐🌈
6+ years ago, I began writing a book about our living planet. That book will officially be out in the world in just three weeks! I can’t wait to share it with you all
I recently got to hold advance copies of the US (left) and UK (right) versions simultaneously for the first time
A tapestry of thyme: just one of the many ways we have replaced all the turfgrass on our property.
Thyme is adapted to a Mediterranean climate (to which we’re heading), crowds out grass/weeds, produces scores of tiny flowers that bees love, and is delightfully fragrant.
From 2017: my @nytimes.com essay on how a total solar eclipse severs our solar umbilical cord, profoundly albeit briefly altering life on Earth—with illustrations by Golden Cosmos www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/s...
✨UK Cover Reveal✨
My British publisher, Picador, opted for something lush & prismatic, featuring Rogan Brown’s gorgeous art. UK audiobook/ebook out in late June; UK hardback in late August. Becoming Earth will eventually be available in at least eight languages www.panmacmillan.com/authors/ferr...
In 2019 I wrote a New York Times Magazine cover story abt video game addiction. It won a Society of Professional Journalists award nytimes.com/2019/10/22/m...
I recently received something even better: a heartfelt letter from a reader for whom the article was life-changing (shared with permission)
It’s happening. Spring ephemerals are blooming in the garden & neighborhood.
This has been a particularly strange winter: unusually dry & warm for the most part, except for a couple weeks of severe chill and thick ice. Of course, what qualifies as typical or unusual is rapidly shifting.
The Moundville Duck Bowl, a stunning example of Indigenous Mississippian culture and craft, carved from a single piece of stone. Discovered in the early 1900s in Alabama. Made in the 13th or 14th C. 📷 Moundville Archaeological Park
Technicolor dreambowl, found in a grave near Zadar on Croatia's Dalmatian Coast. Made by melding and winding thin bars of glass, each adulterated with different minerals to get different colors. 1st century AD. Zadar Museum of Ancient Glass bit.ly/3tAbzB4
