Award-winning Texas author Christopher Brown will appear in San Antonio Wednesday, Sept. 18, to talk about his new genre-defying book that explores the spaces where cities and wild nature collide. A Natural History of Empty Lots documents Brown’s 20-year experiment traversing, living in and writing about these urban edgelands. Publisher Timber Press has called the book a “genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society.” It’s also racked up praise from Pulitzer finalist Kelly Link, bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer and esteemed comic-book writer Chuck Wendig.