[1] His other books include Hard to Be Good (stories); Big Dreams: Into the Heart of California (travel); Carson Valley (novel); Crazy for Rivers (angling/autobiography); and A Fine Place to Daydream (travel/racing).
In addition to The New Yorker, he has contributed to Esquire, Sports Illustrated, American Poetry Review, Salon, Narrative, and other magazines and journals, and he is a Literary Laureate of the San Francisco Public Library.
In 2010, Barich published Long Way Home: On the Trail of Steinbeck's America his account of a 5,943-mile cross-country trip undertaken in the autumn of 2008 just prior to the presidential election.
From 2010 through 2012 he worked as the lead writer on the HBO series Luck, about horses and racing, created by David Milch and starring Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte.
In 2016, Barich published An Angle on the World, a collection of reporting from The New Yorker, travel pieces, personal essays, and book reviews.