Re: Hot, Fat, and Clouded (978-0-9821391-4-1) AI

Bio:

Barrett Brown is a regular contributor to Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, Skeptic, The Onion, and True/Slant; his work has also appeared in dozens of other publications including National Lampoon, McSweeney's, American Atheist, and The Fortean Times. His first book, Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Easter Bunny was released in 2007. Brown also serves as director of communications for Enlighten the Vote, a political action committee dedicated to the enforcement of the Establishment Clause. He's appeared on Fox News and other, less bizarre outlets. Originally from Texas, Brown currently lives in Brooklyn.

A pundit is as a king. America replaces its presidents, its senators, and its generals, but a pundit made is a pundit forever. From this, we may determine either that every American pundit is so deserving of his position in the punditocracy that he ought to hold it forever, or that some pundits are in fact not qualified for their roles but nonetheless remain in place by way of inertia. This book assumes the latter. Likewise, this state of affairs is either very good for the public's understanding of crucial issues, or it is very bad for it. Again, this book assumes the latter.

From this position, Hot, Fat, and Clouded serves as the most damning attack yet written on the failures of the opinion class. Ignoring the nation's more obviously ridiculous media figures, the book concentrates instead on America's serious commentators. The bestselling author who hailed Vladimir Putin as a great reformer and friend to the West, the Pulitzer Prize winner who has been wrong about every U.S. military action of the last decade, and a gaggle of other inexplicably well-regarded staples of the modern commentariat are thoroughly. examined and summarily dismissed. Among those taken to task are New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, Washington Post columnists Richard Cohen and Charles Krauthammer, The New Republic editor Martin Peretz, CNN contributor Ruben Navarrette, and toy fascist douchebag William Bennett.

Author Barrett Brown writes for Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, Skeptic, and a range of other publications, also serving as director of communications for the political action committee Enlighten the Vote. His first book, Flock of Dodos, drew comparisons to the work of Thomas Paine, Mark Twain, and the Old Testament prophets.

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Sterling & Ross Publishers <drew@sterlingandross.com> wrote:

Yes, I need a detailed bio, Table of Contents, 300 word synopsis, who is the target market (include numbers please), and a one liner copywritten for the catalog.

Drew

Drew Nederpelt
Sterling & Ross Publishers
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From: barriticus@gmail.com [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:23 PM
To: Sterling & Ross Publishers
Subject: Re: Hot, Fat, and Clouded (978-0-9821391-4-1) AI

Need anything on my end? Let me know.

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From: "Sterling & Ross Publishers"
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:17:43 -0400
To: 'Barrett Brown'<barriticus@gmail.com>; 'Rachel@sterlingandross.com'<rachel@sterlingandross.com>
Subject: FW: Hot, Fat, and Clouded (978-0-9821391-4-1) AI

Need to get some more info on this over the weekend gang.

Drew

Drew Nederpelt
Sterling & Ross Publishers
115 W. 29th St., New York, NY 10001
212 244 2084, ex.114
www.SterlingandRoss.com

From: Benner, Jessica [mailto:jessica.benner@pgw.com]
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 2:10 PM
To: Sterling & Ross Publishers; Rachel@sterlingandross.com
Cc: Kettunen, Eric; Pasadis, Sophia
Subject: Hot, Fat, and Clouded (978-0-9821391-4-1) AI
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Hi Drew,

Could fill out the AI for this title right away? We saved a spot for it in the catalog, but I need to have the info to send into layout on Monday.

Thanks,

jessica

Jessica Benner

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Publishers Group West

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fax (510) 809-3777

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