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Barret Baumgart

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Born

San Diego, The United States

Website

https://www.barretbaumgart.com/

Genre

Nonfiction, History, Memoir

Member Since

March 2017

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WEIRD NONFICTION

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“ʏᴜᴄᴋ ᴄᴏɴꜰɪʀᴍꜱ ʙᴀᴜᴍɢᴀʀᴛ’ꜱ ꜱᴛᴀᴛᴜꜱ ᴀꜱ ᴏɴᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴇᴀᴅɪɴɢ ᴄʜʀᴏɴɪᴄʟᴇʀꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴀʟɪꜰᴏʀɴɪᴀ ᴡᴇɪʀᴅ.” --ᴇʀɪᴋ ᴅᴀᴠɪꜱ

Barret Baumgart is an essayist, screenwriter, and the author of the nonfiction books China Lake and YUCK. His essays have appeared in The Paris Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, Vice, LitHub, The Seneca Review, and The Literary Review, among others. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Average rating: 4.15 · 73 ratings · 21 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	China Lake: A Journey into the Contradicted Heart of a Global Climate Catastrophe (The Iowa Prize in Literary Nonfiction) 3.99 avg rating — 41 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yuck: The Birth & Death of the Weird & Wondrous Joshua Tree, Yucca brevifolia 4.34 avg rating — 32 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yuck: The Birth & Death of the Weird & Wondrous Joshua Tree, Yucca Brevifolia 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Barret Baumgart's Blog: Dumpster Fires

Pagan Vision for the Autumn Season

“Be alone. Shun the furtive oddity of man, cringe from the hostile eyes of farms. Learn to fear.”

This post from several years ago is one of my favorites so far dispatched to the Dumpster Fire. I repost it for new subscribers and to encourage you to consider purchasing one of the greatest ‘nature’ books ever written and reading it, a page at a time, starting this October.

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Barret Baumgart wrote a new blog post Pagan Vision for the Autumn Season “Be alone. Shun the furtive oddity of man, cringe from the hostile eyes of farms. Learn to fear.” This post from several years ago is one of my favori Read more of this blog post »
Sep 30, 2026 05:00AM · like
Barret Baumgart answered Nicole J's question: Barret! How do you come up with your ideas?! WOW! I do research, try and stay curious, and not take the world and its facts for granted. Keep an ear and eye out for something new, something people might have overlooked, or something that seems surprising, unbelievable or strange... And then keep res See Full Answer
Apr 21, 2025 11:35AM · like
Barret Baumgart liked Nicole J's review of Yuck: The Birth & Death of the Weird & Wondrous Joshua Tree, Yucca brevifolia: "Barret Baumgart has created a page turning historical nonfiction that provides a web of haunting and uncanny connections between historical facts and commentary which build to a climax of revelations. Both the tree and the town of Joshua Tree, visite" Read more of this review »
Apr 21, 2025 11:30AM · see review