Re: Sneak peak at my mean book?
Subject: Re: Sneak peak at my mean book?
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 1/18/10, 21:49
To: Gabriel Snyder <gabriel@gawker.com>

Hi, Gabriel-

I've attached the manuscript itself here, but as you probably don't want to plow through it in search of excerpt-worthy bits, I'll send you a couple of hand-picked bits of about 500 words so that you can pick one out if any of them strike you as working for the Book Club feature.

Thanks,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Gabriel Snyder <gabriel@gawker.com> wrote:
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
(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