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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 1d

If you're in Austin, please join us tonight at Alienated Majesty Books for a launch celebration, where we'll be screening a short film and I'll be in conversation with climate activist Alexia Leclercq and anthropologist Craig Campbell: alienatedmajestybooks.com/events/34023...

Paperback Release & Eco-Panel: A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS by Christopher Brown | Alienated Majesty Books

Home of the leastsellers in Austin, Texas. Small presses, poetry, comics, translated works, and titles you can't find elsewhere.

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Available in your local bookstore, or in any format via the publisher: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chris...

A Natural History of Empty Lots

An "instant classic", this genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto is a fascinating study for rewilding the city, the self, and socie...

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 1d

The paperback edition of A Natural History of Empty Lots is out today from Timber Press @hachetteus.bsky.social! Thanks to all the readers who have picked up the hardcover and ebook over the past year (or listened to the audiobook) and spread the word 🙏📖💚

Paperback editions of A Natural History of Empty Lots in a box

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Aɴᴅʀᴇᴡ Lɪᴘᴛᴀᴋ @andrewliptak.com · 2d

Two books, How To Love A Forest by @howtoloveaforest.bsky.social and A Natural History of Empty Lots by @christopherbrown.bsky.social, examine our place and responsibility in a changing world.

Here’s my review of the two of them: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/forests-tree...

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Tachyon Publications @tachyonpub.bsky.social · 5d

Coming to Tachyon 30th Anniversary shindig this Sun Oct 5 12-5 #SanFrancisco Public Library main branch?

You can hobnob with most of the staff & authors Peter S. Beagle, @joerlansdale.bsky.social, @samtasticbooks.com, and others!

FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

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#sfpl #tachyon30

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 5d

Very much liked this book —

Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Austin folks: please join us Tuesday night at Alienated Majesty Books for the paperback release of A Natural History of Empty Lots (and a month-long celebration of this amazing bookstore's second birthday): alienatedmajestybooks.com/events/34023...

Paperback Release & Eco-Panel: A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS by Christopher Brown | Alienated Majesty Books

Home of the leastsellers in Austin, Texas. Small presses, poetry, comics, translated works, and titles you can't find elsewhere.

alienatedmajestybooks.com

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 5d

And on November 6, I'll be presenting a talk on A Natural History of Empty Lots at UT-Austin for the Plan II Honors Program's 2025-26 Speaker Series—on campus in the Joynes Reading Room and open to the public: liberalarts.utexas.edu/plan2/the-jo...

College of Liberal Arts | The University of Texas at Austin

Liberal Arts at UT offers over 40 majors and many top-ranked graduate programs in the social sciences and humanities taught by 750 faculty.

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 5d

On November 5, I'll be teaching an online class for @writersleaguetexas.bsky.social on nature writing in the 21st century—as both genre in its own right and essential element for writers in any genre. It should be a lot of fun: writersleague.org/calendar/wri...

“Writing the Natural World: A 21st Century Reboot” with Christopher Brown

$59 for Members $119 for Non-Members For any writer in any genre, nature is a presence in the narrative, whether as the central focus or ambient background. Writing the natural world presents a tre…

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 5d

We'll be screening a short documentary by Brett Gaylor that visits some of the locations from the book, and then in conversation with climate activist Alexia Leclercq and anthropologist Craig Campbell about how to find (fight?) our way to a greener future: alienatedmajestybooks.com/events/34023...

Paperback Release & Eco-Panel: A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS by Christopher Brown | Alienated Majesty Books

Home of the leastsellers in Austin, Texas. Small presses, poetry, comics, translated works, and titles you can't find elsewhere.

alienatedmajestybooks.com

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Austin folks: please join us Tuesday night at Alienated Majesty Books for the paperback release of A Natural History of Empty Lots (and a month-long celebration of this amazing bookstore's second birthday): alienatedmajestybooks.com/events/34023...

Paperback Release & Eco-Panel: A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS by Christopher Brown | Alienated Majesty Books

Home of the leastsellers in Austin, Texas. Small presses, poetry, comics, translated works, and titles you can't find elsewhere.

alienatedmajestybooks.com

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electricpolecat.bsky.social @electricpolecat.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent and insightful piece here from @christopherbrown.bsky.social on nature and nativism.
Homelands and Hybrids fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/homelands-...

Homelands and Hybrids

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 8d

Grateful to the editors of @nplusonemag.com for the clarity and force of this editorial.

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Black text on a sepia background: "As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the further degradation of an already degraded educational system. We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts. We dig ourselves deeper into crises that have been made worse by technology, from the erosion of electoral democracy to the intensification of climate change. We condone platforms that not only urge children to commit suicide, they instruct them on how to tie the noose. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks, Mark! 🙏

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 8d

Meant to say more just *future* 😬 not furniture but that is also important

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 8d

Next week! Paperback launch with a short documentary screening + a wide-ranging conversation about the path to a greener and more just furniture. Hope to see some Austin friends there—RSVP and details at the link: alienatedmajestybooks.com/events/34023...

Paperback Release & Eco-Panel: A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS by Christopher Brown | Alienated Majesty Books

Home of the leastsellers in Austin, Texas. Small presses, poetry, comics, translated works, and titles you can't find elsewhere.

alienatedmajestybooks.com

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 8d

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 10d

buttondown.com/perfectsente... this week in sentences: crows, exhausting, teeny-weeny, Star Wars, rhythm of, personal weather, surface, idol factory, Algol, sweet bigotries, slightly more, navy blue, Nero, demons, needs to shout, dance, chlorinated, fire, percolation

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10d

“Last week researchers at UT-Austin announced the discovery of a new bird – a hybrid of two species of jay... [which] historically had no overlapping range. Global heating has changed that, and now the green jay... and the blue jay... have found each other...”

Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 10d

Field Notes from September in the so-called "Homeland," with epic moons, coral vine, killer bees, Instagram propaganda, and new species appearing in the suburban edges of Texas: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/homelands-...

Homelands and Hybrids

No. 185

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 10d

Field Notes from September in the so-called "Homeland," with epic moons, coral vine, killer bees, Instagram propaganda, and new species appearing in the suburban edges of Texas: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/homelands-...

Homelands and Hybrids

No. 185

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 15d

That was a plan (with a cardboard box as the alternate plan), but I was able to just gently grab it and take it outside 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 15d

Got summoned home to help this bird get out of our living room, where it had inadvertently flown through an open door. Yellow warbler, I think?

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Mike Westphal @mfwestphal.bsky.social · 23d

I put off reading this because I was on a weeklong wildfire assignment (one that was slightly more depressing and frustrating than usual) and it was great to come home to another funny & inspiring & thought-provoking Field Note, a great recharge, thanks.

Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · Sep 7

Tiny kaiju, ambient Peckinpah, lost CDs, and a stewardship walk through the unevenly distributed future, in these Field Notes from the week preceding the full moon: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/an-anthem-...

An Anthem for the Cicada Killer

No. 184

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Squid Pro Quo @hackett.bsky.social · 24d

Fun afternoon readings by @williamledbetter.bsky.social, Matthew Bey, @christopherbrown.bsky.social, and @markfinn.bsky.social, between my panels

Bill Ledbetter sitting at a table with other people, getting ready to read

Matthew Bey, in a baseball cap, reading at a round table

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 28d

I think that cute sound is the excited terrier puppy I was walking. That the armadillo was that chill around a dog was remarkable. They don't have great vision, so usually you can get very close before they see, hear or smell you and scoot. And sometimes like here they seem to sense you're safe

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 28d

When the armadillos are out foraging before sundown, it’s a sign cooler temps have arrived in Texas

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