Career
Baum is the author of five novels and several published short stories and prose. His book Oscar Caliber Gun (Later called The Golden Calf) has been translated into French. He has also published work with Identity Theory, Storyglossia, Scarecrow, Dogmatika, Purple prose, 3:Department of Administration and Management Magazine, and Les Episodes.
His book, The American Book Of The Dead was described by the widow of Philip K Dick, Tessa Dick, "If you read Lolita or A Clockwork Orange without drop-kicking the book out into the garden on a rainy day, this novel is for you.” He has published with Canongate and Cloverfield Press.
Blogging Henry Baum founded a website, Self-Publishing Review, hailed by The Guardian newspaper as the go-to site for self-published authors. In 2012, he co-founded another website, making Review.
He also wrote a blog for some time under the female name Shirley Shave, which some readers took as a real-life blog of a sex worker, until Baum revealed his true identity, to much controversy. This blog took the form of God"s Wife, released as a novel in 2012 with Shirley Shave as the main character.
Barrell, as well as a solo project with two widely acclaimed albums under the name Ash Tree, on which he plays and produces everything himself, called Living Room on Soft Skull/Shortwave, described by Magazine as, "Will Oldham meets Kurt Cobain meets good old fashioned American songwriting with the truth heard only from the home-recording machine.".