Rough translation: they're releasing On Trails in mass-market paperback in the Netherlands—where, I will add, desire lines are known, charmingly (if somewhat confusingly) as "elephant trails."

The 12 New Books You Should Read in April From 'Yesteryear' to 'Transcription,' these are the can't-miss books coming out this month

Adriana E. Ramírez's THE VIOLENCE & Robert Moor's IN TREES are both featured in Time Magazine's list of the best new books of the month!

@aeramirez.bsky.social @robertmoor.com

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I love this. Reminds me of my favorite anecdote from Katharine Hepburn's memoir, which I discovered on a shelf in an AirBnB in rural Australia, and then promptly added to my book.

Debt is one of those books I recommend to people constantly, and they never, ever take me up on it, because it sounds dry and dull. But trust me, it’s not. It will blow your damn mind.

Caity Weaver, describing what it’s like to stroll through the world’s (once) biggest hotel.

“Roaming its purgatorial interior, you could be wandering a mega-cruise ship beached in the desert… It is as all-encompassing as the world of a nightmare.”

Oil companies are on track to make tens of billions in windfall profits from Trump’s illegal war in Iran.

It’s their profiteering that’s driving up prices. It’s them who should pay.

The day has arrived!

Come see me talk about In Trees, among plants.

(Seems like a story @longreads.com might be into, as well?)

The Tree House | Robert Moor A voyage to the source of a backyard dream.

In the jungles of Papua live a tribe of “cannibals” who live in very tall treehouses.

Or, at least, so we’re often told.

The truth is considerably more complicated—and more surreal.

Read the latest excerpt from my book, in @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social

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Excited to do a bit of intellectual photosynthesis with new botanical books by a couple of the best writers in our field, @robertmoor.com and @dghaskell.bsky.social. 🌲 🌼 🌱

Do they really have that many coniferous trees here, that their needles dominate the makeup of all street detritus? Or (and I would not put it past them) do the trucks pump that smell out, artificially, the way Subway franchises emit Subway sandwich smell?

Currently in SF, sitting in the sun drinking my coffee, and a street-sweeper just whooshed past—only unlike in NYC, where they smell like trash & dust & car exhaust, this one smelled very powerfully & sweetly of pine sap. A surreal, but very pleasant, moment.

A friend who’s currently in Budapest texted me this image from last night.

Joy! (Remember joy?)

we are living during the GRIMMEST FUCKING TIMELINE

Lerner has this remarkable ability to lure you in with a trickle of spare, plainspoken language, and then just as you’ve lowered your expectations, he opens up a spout of poetic, theory-laced prose that makes your scalp tingle.

I've been looking forward to this one for a long time.

“A Pilgrim at Piggly Wiggly”— a book I would 100% read.

Love Dillard, but…no less difficult? This does not compute.

My sleepless night in a chimpanzee nest Unraveling the mystery of human evolution, thirty-five feet in the air.

Long awaited sequel to "My Dinner with Andre" just dropped.

Dwellers of Marin and the greater Bay Area! I’ll appearing tonight with the brilliant @manjula.bsky.social at the Mill Valley Library at 6:30pm, hosted by @ssparks.bsky.social and @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social !

Wittgenstein's cabin near Skjolden, Norway, 1914.

LATMG Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 18-19 | University of Southern California. Featuring the covers of our three books, Human Nature by Kate Marvel, In Trees by Robert Moor, and The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Join me! Learn more. latimes.com/fob

LOS ANGELES!!

Tickets are now available for next weekend's LA Times Festival of Books panels, and I hope you'll grab tickets for the one I'm on with @robertmoor.com and Kate Marvel! 📚💙

I recommend getting tickets because for the last two years my panels have filled up!
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Mildly obsessed with the mystery of how this enormous video store in a medium-sized town in Oregon stays in business.

Just signed a big stack of In Treeses and On Trailses at @powells.bsky.social, if anyone in Portland wants one!

And a quick reminder that I’ll be back in town on April 30th with the brilliant @ferrisjabr.bsky.social

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We’re told this is about “the economy.”

But look closer: profits are concentrated in oil & gas companies while costs are shared by everyone else

Higher prices, instability, and growing climate damage.

Ah yes, “agape”, the ancient Greek term for selfless love. Thankfully there’s no other meaning of that word.

Essential reading if you want to understand the Trump Administration’s quiet but ever-intensifying attempts to destroy America’s forests, as well as the science of how they work.

“The aim, @redford.bsky.social writes, “was to manage forests by eliminating them.”

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If that were me, I would immediately get hit in the face by a bee, freak out, and topple into the water, stereo and all.

Just once in my life I want to be as zen as this guy I just saw paddle boarding down Portage Bay in Seattle, in a sweatsuit, blasting Redbone

Cosmic Wonder: Philosophy, Poetry, and the Natural World - Tickets Required Albert and Dana Broccoli Theatre Saturday, Apr 18 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Event Description How to deal with the mystery and majesty of being alive on this strange planet, in this unfathomably large universe? There's a reason so much poetry is written about the moon. Join us for a philosophical look at the nature of our planet and our universe, and the wisdom to be gained from living in a state of wonder: theoretical physics by way of popular culture and poetry; the power of "tree thinking" as a means of navigating humanity's oldest questions about our life cycles; and a biography of earth in nine emotions: wonder, anger, guilt, fear, grief, surprise, pride, hope, and love.

Every once in a blue moon I get invited to do a literary event that sounds so cool, I wish I could just sit in the audience enjoying it, rather than being on stage trying to think of what to say next.

This one in LA on 4/18 w/ @chanda.blacksky.app & @drkatemarvel.bsky.social is one such event!