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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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Barret Baumgart 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 mig…moreI 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 researching, keep digging, keep looking for the next unbelievable or counter-intuitive fact. There's always more to the story. Further layers of meaning and history, even when you think you've found it all. Start writing before you know where you're going, what the project is, or what the end result will be. (less)
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Top of the Food Chain

“People Need to Eat!”

Read to the end for a better photograph of my brand-new milk-drunk daughter, Arden River Baumgart.

Topics Covered: Meat, Tonglen, Blood, Erewhon, Tapetum Lucidum, Investing, Tibetan Buddhism, Black Metal, Cold-Storage, UFOs, Food Systems, Parenting Advice. Read Time: 3 hours, 47 minutes.

I left my last post—about a catastrophic fire at a massive Los Angeles cold-storage war

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