Excerpt Query: Hot, Fat, and Clouded, Barrett Brown
Subject: Excerpt Query: Hot, Fat, and Clouded, Barrett Brown
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 3/5/10, 15:17
To: lev_grossman@timemagazine.com
Hi, Lev-
I wanted to check and see you might have use for an excerpt from my second book, Hot, 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 rather important issues, 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 sources.
Let me know if you'd like to see the manuscript or perhaps a selection of potential excerpts.