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Barret Baumgart

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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: 4.13 · 64 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 4.40 avg rating — 25 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 Los Angeles Times Published My Opinion Piece

I swear this is the last time I will post about my new book YUCK!!

But this one feels warranted. The Los Angeles Times today published an opinion essay that I somehow snuck through the slush pile. Hundreds of comments and dozens of complaints sent previously to LA Times in protest of Gustavo Arellano’s plagiarism of my El Aliso reporting were, apparently, not enough to put me on a blacklist per

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Barret Baumgart wrote a new blog post The Los Angeles Times Published My Opinion Piece I swear this is the last time I will post about my new book YUCK!!But this one feels warranted. The Los Angeles Times today published an opinion essa Read more of this blog post »
Nov 19, 2025 04:45AM · 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