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Barret Baumgart

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Born

San Diego, The United States

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https://www.barretbaumgart.com/

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Nonfiction, History, Memoir

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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 · 62 ratings · 18 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) 3.95 avg rating — 39 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 4.48 avg rating — 23 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
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Barret Baumgart's Blog: Dumpster Fires

The Most Sexually Frustrated Cat on Earth

For years I’ve wanted to say something about P-22, formerly the world’s most famous mountain lion (RIP-22).

Real Photo. Steve Winter / NPS.gov

And, well, I finally got around to it—albeit in the form of a deranged 3 minute Instagram Reel, created largely in the hopes of improving my numbers on social media so that I might eventually attract a literary agent to sell my next book, an agent search

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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
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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 »
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