Subject: Re: Sneak peak at my mean book?
From: Gabriel Snyder <gabriel@gawker.com>
Date: 1/18/10, 19:20
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

Hi Barret,

I'd love to see your manuscript. Not sure when you'd like to start pushing it, but it could make a good Book Club entry. Those have had varying degrees of success so far, but ai think they're working when the excerpt itself is compelling and exclusive. So if you think there's a 500ish Word Gawker post lurking inside your book, I'd love to see it. 

Thanks,
Gabriel 

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Gabriel Snyder
gs@gabrielsnyder.com
(213) 448-1848

On Jan 16, 2010, at 4:11 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, Gabriel-

This is Barrett Brown; I believe we spoke briefly a few months back. As a refresher, I write for Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, Skeptic, True/Slant, and a few other outlets here and there.

My second book, Hot, Fat, and Clouded: The Amazing and Amusing Failures of America's Chattering Class, is set for release this upcoming April. The book consists largely of attacks on Thomas Friedman, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Cohen, and other such wacky columnists, detailing all of their various failed predictions, contradictory assertions, and terrible prose tics. I figured that some of the content might be of interest to Gawker; would you care to have the first look at the manuscript? Let me know when you get a moment.

Thanks,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302