Christopher Brown

The cover of Random Acts Of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack, held up in a bookstore.

At Foyles in London picking up a birthday present for a friend.

They’re here too—we used to have a colony in half-buried old tire in our yard, and I witnessed them chase a contractor a block down our street when he messed with their nest

Honeybee at freshly bloomed pink blossoms of redbud tree

It’s here

Deep in the Heart

Makeshift memorial of flowers and stuffies

And makeshift memorial outside Buford’s, with a smattering of folks standing around paying their respects and a bunch of TV news types looking like they’re wrapping up to move on the next one:

Sidewalk outside crime scene marked with numerous orange spray paint dots

Sidewalk out front

Bar employee plaster bullethole from giant wall mural of Bronson lookalike cowboy with mustache and bandolero aiming a revolver

Dude plastering a presumed bullethole just now under the watchful gaze of this AI Bronson that has always creeped me out, on the front of the Kung Fu Saloon next door to Buford’s, site of this weekend’s horrific mass shooting in Austin. *Seen walking back to the office from a late lunch .

Y’all, please nominate—it’s so very helpful to everyone: the authors, the jury, the foundation, and to readers

Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

Animal bones in a field

In the shadow of the antenna, a field of bones across from the shuttered elementary school. Saw a maybe-jaguarundi stalking here late last summer—like the osprey, one of the species of predators that have moved into this urbanized region as they found it affords better hunting than we might assume:

Osprey atop old radio transmission antenna

*Phone zoom of the osprey, still too far to easily id

Radio tower in an otherwise empty lot

This morning’s walk through the open lot around the 1922 AM radio antenna 10
minutes from downtown revealed 13 species of wild birds in the surrounding trees, and an osprey chilling at the very top of the tower:

Honored to make this week's list in my favorite weekly newsletter, Perfect Sentences, and in such excellent company. You should subscribe if you don't already 👇

For anyone who doubts these processes -- or humanity's power to alter our planet -- consider this dispatch from the poles: Human-caused warming has already melted so much ice in Greenland and Antarctica that Earth's rotation has slowed and its axis has shifted, slightly altering the length of the day and disrupting the precision of satellite tracking, global positioning systems and timekeeping.

oh my god

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

Southlands / Edgelands Field notes from a post-industrial menagerie

My piece on the weird wildness of the petrochemical Texas coast, for the inaugural issue of @boyceupholt.bsky.social’s amazing new print magazine Southlands, is now up for online reading on this side of the paywall (with a bunch of photos to boot): southlandsmag.com/southlands-e...

Thanks, Derryl!

That first sentence!

Thank you 🙏🪾

Thank you! 🙏💚

Come for the skulls, stay for the canine homunculus and herons and more.

Skull season And some book news (No. 191)

Skull Season - this week's Field Notes from Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social
"The naturally-occurring folk horror of the urban woods is an addicting thing. Experienced through regular ambles over the course of multiple seasons, it reveals the story of the food chain in the land"

Already looking forward to the new book

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Skull season And some book news (No. 191)

Winter's end in the weird woods aided by a canine homunculus, urban heron rookeries behind the old warehouses, dystopian auspices in the airport flyover, and news about a new book, in this week's Field Notes: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/skull-season

Thanks, Fred!

Ha! Need to come out to So Cal to research part of this one so hopefully we can get out for a walk in your general vicinity 🌾💚

Thanks, Clay!

The cover of Paul McAuley's new novel Loss Protocol.

Currently £5 off the cover price of Loss Protocol if you order it from Forbidden Planet. #justsaying

Thanks, Chad!

Deal announcement of new Christopher Brown narrative nonfiction book Field Notes from a Near Future.

Stoked to share this news from yesterday’s Publishers Marketplace, and excited to spend the coming summer tracking robots and monsters across our increasingly dystopian landscape. With luck I will also find some hidden portals into greener futures: www.publishersmarketplace.com/deals/ss.cgi...