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  • China Lake

    A Journey into the Contradicted Heart of a Global Climate Catastrophe

    Series series The Iowa Prize in Literary Nonfiction
    Barret Baumgart’s literary debut presents a haunting and deeply personal portrait of civilization poised at the precipice, a picture of humanity caught between its deepest past and darkest future. In the fall of 2013, during the height of California’s historic drought, Baumgart toured the remote military base, NAWS China Lake, near Death Valley, California. His mother, the survivor of a recent ... Read more

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  • YUCK

    The Birth & Death of the Weird & Wondrous Joshua Tree, Yucca brevifolia

    YUCK is a prismatic collage, a poetic wandering, a compact history of the West as twisted and weird and ominous and beautiful as the plant it obsesses over. From divine providence to gaseous landfill to Instagram paradise, Yuck deftly traces the modern history of a small patch of desert to leave us with a big warning about America's demented relationship with the land. Baumgart's brief book will ... Read more

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