Subject: pitch
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 6/7/09, 19:34
To: Karen Lancaster <lancaster.karen@gmail.com>

I'm seeking representation and wanted to check in with you to see if you might be seeking new writers to represent. I'm a Brooklyn-based freelancer and author specializing in political humor, and my work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Skeptic, The Huffington Post, The Onion A.V. Club, National Lampoon, McSweeney's, and dozens of other publications, and my first book, Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Easter Bunny, was released in 2007; my second book, Caught, Fat, and Clouded: The Manifold Failures of the American Punditry, is set for release next year. I've also served as a contract writer for Fox Business Channel's Emmy-award winning animated financial humor program Hoofy and Boo.

I'm looking for an agent specifically in hopes of getting back into television writing, preferably with the late night shows or Comedy Central's two news satire programs.

I've pasted a couple of links to some recent work below; please take a look and let me know if you might be interested in taking me on as a client.

Thanks,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2009/03/friedmans-follies.html

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2009/04/the-10-best-political-videos-youve-probably-never-seen.html

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2009/04/conservapedia-bastion-of-the-realitydenying-right.html