Christopher Brown

Writer & lawyer. now available: A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS (narrative nonfiction) • Novels TROPIC OF KANSAS et al • urban nature newsletter FIELD NOTES

[Christopher Brown @NB_Chris]

My new book A Natural History of Empty Lots is released today. I hope you like it—it distills 20 years of exploring the edgelands, working on rewilding projects, and trying to understand what such places teach us about our lives, history and future: https://t.co/rPpXcv85EB

[Adrian McKinty @adrianmckinty]

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:

[Christopher Brown @NB_Chris]

The unstoppable @doctorow right now at First Light Books in Austin, presenting Picks & Shovels to the SRO @SXSW crowd:

[SustainabilityAgenda @sustain_agenda]

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): https://t.co/2GxkkLl8GV

Tune in:
https://t.co/UWkphd7LL0

[Adrian McKinty @adrianmckinty]

this is nice too

HANG ON ST CHRISTOPHER

is a best book of the month on amazon 🙂

[Christopher Brown @NB_Chris]

@adrianmckinty Always amazing to read Bernal Diaz’s first person accounts of walking across the causeways into that city, and Cortés’ letters to the King describing its marvels: https://t.co/tfe49tPRez

[Christopher Brown @NB_Chris]

Grackles, concrete, ancient oaks, true names of the Gulf, and Tropic of Kansas memories, in the latest Field Notes: https://t.co/zibGBU5OBf

[Adrian McKinty @adrianmckinty]

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

[NiCHE @NiCHE_Canada]

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.

https://t.co/ApfSASg3Hh

#envhist #nathist #urbanstudies #urbanecology #yxe

[SustainabilityAgenda @sustain_agenda]

Exploring the edgelands-Texas and beyond w/ @NB_Chris

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!

https://t.co/QXoSxyyfzH

[Christopher Brown @NB_Chris]

I had a blast talking with Fergal Byrne @sustain_agenda about Empty Lots, rewilding, and green futures: https://t.co/QhxWZ0kgnR

[Christopher Brown @NB_Chris]

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: https://t.co/YjvJIy4Pwq

[joanna pocock @joannaofottawa]

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

[Christopher Brown @NB_Chris]

Field Notes from the cold snap that precedes the inauguration, with celestial objects, underground queens, and Octavia Butler daydreams: https://t.co/m2GJwaYJl8

[Christopher Brown @NB_Chris]

Available today in the UK!

[Christopher Brown @NB_Chris]

My new book A Natural History of Empty Lots is released today. I hope you like it—it distills 20 years of exploring the edgelands, working on rewilding projects, and trying to understand what such places teach us about our lives, history and future: https://t.co/rPpXcv85EB

[joanna pocock @joannaofottawa]

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

[Christopher Brown @NB_Chris]

More Marty Hench from the unstoppable @doctorow—I’m in!

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

*Picks and Shovels* is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton:

https://t.co/i2rWuyouNs

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[Christopher Brown @NB_Chris]

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

[Austin Statesman @statesman]

We asked our entertainment staff to name 25 Austinites to watch this year, and the list they produced sets the stage for a thrilling year. https://t.co/LjEaJzmBKG

[Christopher Brown @NB_Chris]

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: https://t.co/GOrbn3IFKf

[quirk chungus SHODAN @kyotocosmology]

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

[EcoFriendlyWest (find us at @ecofriendlywest.bsky) @ecofriendlywest]

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.” https://t.co/jqDCNWlYIy