My story “A Natural History of Vacant Lots”—really a piece of speculative nonfiction—is now available at Texas Architect and in print in the magazine’s September/October issue.
The Los Angeles Public Library has an interview about Tropic of Kansas up at their blog—some great questions that really bit into the material.
And the September 15 issue of the Times Literary Supplement has a roundup of new American dystopias, including Tropic of Kansas, remarking on the book’s “thriller-ish swagger,” “the rather richly imagined wasteland of [the book’s] mid-America,” and it’s “Twainian journey downriver to the Missisippi’s end,” and even pulling out Roland Barthes to explain the book’s narrative strategies for world building.
Texas Architect: “A Natural History of Vacant Lots”
Los Angeles Public Library: Interview with an Author: Christopher Brown