Dan Baum

Reader: Dan Baum should take aim at his issues, not guns

Dan Baum took a few bullets from critics of his Harper's Magazine piece, too.​Dan Baum's new book, Guns Gone Wild, won't be published until 2013, but critics are already taking aim at the author, after he published a related essay as a Kindle Single. The irony? Baum lives in ultra-liberal Bo ... More >>

Dan Baum's book in the making, Guns Gone Wild, already has gun guys up in arms

Boulder author Dan Baum is a gun owner, and his most recent work, a companion piece to his upcoming book Guns Gone Wild that was released as a Kindle Single, makes an argument that most gun owners would seemingly support: that the AR-15 rifle is fun, a beacon of hope in a sinking gun market that doe ... More >>

Dan Baum details his New Yorker denouement, 140 characters at a time

11:11 ProductionsDan Baum Boulder-based scribe Dan Baum has had a pretty distinguished writing career. The guy's byline has popped up in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times Magazine and Rolling Stone, among others, and his latest book, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans, made the New Yor ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, March 23 edition

The Photo Atlas live in Texas. March forward. Today in Backbeat Online: • The Photo Atlas live at SXSW 2009. • Overcasters SXSW tour diary. • Epilogues SXSW tour diary. • Aloft in the Sundry SXSW tour diary. • Meese SXSW tour diary. Today in Cafe Society: • Appleman's cooking in Bould ... More >>

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