Book excerpts?

Henry-

Not sure if you're the right person to ask, but I wanted to check and see if The Daily Beast might have use for an excerpt from my second book, Caught, Fat, and Clouded, which will be released in April and which concerns the manner in which our nation's most respected columnists - Thomas Friedman, Charles Krauthammer, and Richard Cohen, for instance - have gained and maintained their positions of prominence despite having made all sorts of failed predictions, contradicted themselves on issues of extraordinary importance, and otherwise contributed to the general public misunderstanding.

As for me, I'm a regular contributor to Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, Skeptic, and True/Slant, and my other work has appeared in dozens of additional publications. My first book, Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Easter Bunny, was released in 2007 to praise from Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School and Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone, among other kindly folks. I give the odd lecture on philosophy and other subjects at New York-area universities such as Rutgers and also serve as director of communications for the political action committee Enlighten the Vote, on behalf of which I occasionally go on Fox News to argue with strange-looking ministers.

Let me know if you'd like to see the manuscript or perhaps a selection of potential excerpts.

Thanks,

Barrett Brown

Brooklyn, NY

512-560-2302