Caroline Tracey

Exciting news:
🧂🌊 SALT LAKES TOUR DATES! 🪰🙌
Join me this spring!

Details are on most of the venues' websites, but please let me know if you have any questions and I'll do my best to help out.

Exciting developments this AM:

1. A LEGITIMATE SNOW STORM!!!

2. @cetracey.bsky.social’s new @wwnorton.com book “Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History” arrived in the mail!

(Tracey worked on it as visiting fellow 2 years ago here at the @byureddcenter.bsky.social)

Woot woot!!! amzn.to/3ZIVaf0

So happy your copy got to you! The book wouldn't have been possible without the Redd Center. Pardon the late reply!

Gunfights Gunfights Gunfights Logan Phillips was born in Tombstone, Arizona—a town best known for Old West-themed gunfight tourism. In his new book, Reckon, Phillips explores his relationship to the unusual setting of his childhoo...

Interview out today with @cetracey.bsky.social for @theborderchronicle.bsky.social. I'm always grateful for a thoughtful interview with someone who has given the work a close read.

Listen here:

www.theborderchronicle.com/gunfights-gu...

After 150 Years, California’s Sugar Beet Industry Comes to an End The Imperial Valley might be the best place in the world to grow beets. What went wrong with the California industry?

Though California’s Imperial Valley might offer the world’s highest sugar beet tonnages, a mixture of lower production costs, modernized processing plants, and federal sugar policies have pushed the crop toward the upper Midwest.

Contributor @cetracey.bsky.social reports. ⬇️

I joined @danielrothberg.bsky.social for the first video edition of his newsletter, Invisible Waters—imo the best resource for staying up to date about what’s going on with water in the West—to talk about my forthcoming book, Salt Lakes:
substack.com/@cetracey/no...

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November 2025 Newsletter: Sanctuary, Colony, Library, Democracy Recent essays in Places by journalist Caroline Tracey, human rights lawyer Julian Aguon, and contributing writers Shannon Mattern and Belmont Freeman.

ICYMI: @cetracey.bsky.social on the origins of the Sanctuary Movement; Julian Aguon, on cancer clusters in Guam caused by U.S. nuclear tests; @shannonmattern.bsky.social on the organizing force of libraries to sustain public knowledge; and Belmont Freeman, on Trump's attack on federal architecture.

A Theology of Smuggling In the early 1980s, in Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. Their collaboration galvanized the Sanctuary Movement.

In the 1980s, in Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. Their collaboration helped galvanize the Sanctuary Movement, a humanitarian immigrant defense project that pioneered new models of citizen resistance.

From @cetracey.bsky.social:

On the Brinck | Places Prize In collaboration with the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning, the On the Brinck | Places Prize supports ambitious public scholarship focused on the American Southwest, in the s...

“A Theology of Smuggling” by @cetracey.bsky.social is the first article in our new collaboration with the School of Architecture + Planning @unm.edu, The On the Brinck | Places Prize, supporting ambitious public scholarship on the Southwestern U.S.

Coming in March from @wwnorton.com...

Book giveaway for Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History by Caroline Tracey Nov 13-Dec 11, 2025 Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Nov 13-Dec 11, 2025. An acclaimed young nature writer’s intimate exploration into the h...

Friends who use Goodreads, @wwnorton.com is offering a giveaway of my book, Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History. You can enter until December 11! 🧂🌊🌈🌱
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Happening TODAY!!

@cetracey.bsky.social presents her On the Brinck | Places Prize lecture, "The Theology of Smuggling: A Genealogy of Humanitarianism in the Borderlands."

Attend in-person, @unm.edu School of Architecture and Planning, or tune in on Zoom!

Don't miss this lecture by @cetracey.bsky.social on theology, colonialism and humanitarianism in the Southwestern U.S. — part of our On the Brinck | Places Prize collab with the School of Architecture + Planning @unm.edu.

Albuquerque folks! Details below. Or join by Zoom: unm.zoom.us/j/97216782176

Caroline Tracey (@cetracey.bsky.social) is young at heart in Sun City.

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Book covers of Lance Richardson’s True Nature and Caroline Tracey’s Salt Lakes

Alaska reentry has its ups and downs but amazing reads are an up.

Thank you so much for reading! Happy you are enjoying it. Apologies for the delayed response, I hadn’t logged into Bluesky in awhile!

Thanks! More to come soon

excited for you to read!

Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History Buy Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

My debut book, Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History, coming in March from W.W. Norton, has a beautiful cover and is available for pre-order! Check it out at this link:

www.amazon.com/Salt-Lakes-U...

Be like Todd! Pre-order Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History!

Thanks for pre-ordering!!

HBD Linda Ronstadt!!
Recent book, rev via @cetracey.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/armp... ‪ ‪
Doc, rev via @katiewalshstx.bsky.social: www.chicagotribune.com/2019/09/12/l...
Gives us the song of the day, with Neil, on his transplendent "Hangin on a Limb": www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXnH...

Mexico Says Construction on Three Dams in Sonora Will Begin in July. Locals are Concerned. According to residents, officials have not produced an environmental impact statement, structural plans, or a cost-benefit analysis, nor have they consulted affected communities, as required by law.

Important piece by @cetracey.bsky.social and also a new translation of ejido (to me anyway) - "ranching collective", I like it www.theborderchronicle.com/p/mexico-say...

Mexico Says Construction on Three Dams in Sonora Will Begin in July. Locals are Concerned. According to residents, officials have not produced an environmental impact statement, structural plans, or a cost-benefit analysis, nor have they consulted affected communities, as required by law.

The state of Sonora is one of the border states hardest hit by drought. Now Claudia Sheinbaum's govt is proposing 3 new dams. A local farmer sums up local sentiment best: “There’s no water,” said Díaz-Caravantes. “What good are three empty dams?” A great new piece today by @cetracey.bsky.social 🦂

A Generation of Injustice at Tyson Foods Alice Driver’s Life and Death of the American Worker, an intimate look at a processing plant in Arkansas, exposes the inhumanity of a workplace and how workers fought back.

For @thenation.com, I wrote about Alice Driver’s book, The Death and Life of the American Worker, about Mexican and Central immigrant organizing in the poultry processing plants of Arkansas—an important contribution to US labor journalism:
www.thenation.com/article/cult...