Re: Blurb
Subject: Re: Blurb
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 4/22/10, 06:27
To: Michael Hastings <mhastings@gmail.com>

You're a hell of a foreign correspondent, man. Hope you're getting some good down time in over there before you get to Kabul and its world-renowned night life. Do me a favor and bring me a book of matches from a nightclub or the Irish embassy, tee hee hee. I'm done.

Anyway, wanted to send you this, which I also gave Kilkenny - a nice big list of various editors at well-paying pubs, up-to-date e-mail addresses, etc. Part of Project PM's intent is to get the best commentators a higher level of prominence and a larger audience made up of people who are intelligent but not accessing the best outlets, and one way of doing that is to draw them to our blog network from print pubs. So, here's that list; hope you find it helpful.

The DailyBeast

Jane Spencer, managing editor

jane.spencer@thedailybeast.com

 

New York Times

FIONA SPRUILL Editor, Web Newsroom

fiona@nytimes.com

 

Time, Inc.

John Huey, Editorial Director
john_huey@timeinc.com

 



The Economist

 

Edward Carr, Senior Editor (he had run an ad last fall looking for writers!)

edwardcarr@economist.com

 

Tom Easton, NY Bureau Chief

tomeaston@economist.com

 

Roger McShane, Political Editor (for your book?)

rogermcshane@economist.com

 

(Mr.) Adrian Woolridge, World Affairs Editor

adrianwoolridge@economist.com

 

Rachel Horwood, Washington Bureau Chief

rachelhorwood@economist.com

 

 

Time, Inc.

 

Rick Stengel, Managing Editor

rick_stengel@timemagazine.com

 

John Huey, Editorial Director
john_huey@timeinc.com

 

Lev Grossman, Book Critic – FOR YOUR NEW BOOK

lev_grossman@timemagazine.com

 

New York Times

FIONA SPRUILL Editor, Web Newsroom

fiona@nytimes.com

 

The DailyBeast

 

**New names:

 

Jane Spencer, managing editor

jane.spencer@thedailybeast.com

 

Henry Seltzer, home page editor

henry.seltzer@thedailybeast.com

 

Bryan Curtis, senior editor

bryan.curtis@thedailybeast.com

 

Senior editor Nicholas Wapshott

nicholas.wapshott@thedailybeast.com

 

Edward Felsenthal, executive editor

edward.felsenthal@thedailybeast.com

 

Will Doig, formerly of Nerve.com

will.doig@thedailybeast.com

 

Gawker.com

 

**New:

 

Gabriel Snyder, editor in chief

gabriel@gawker.com

 

The New Yorker

 

**New:

 

Blake Eskin, web editor

blake_eskin@newyorker.com

 

Daniel Zalewski, features editor

daniel_zalewski@newyorker.com

 

Susan Morrison, articles editor

susan_morrison@newyorker.com

 

 

Rolling Stone

 

**New Name:

Abbey Goodman, executive website editor, over Caryn Ganz

abbey.goodman@rollingtone.com

 

Caryn Ganz – deputy website editor

caryn.ganz@rollingstone.com

 

Eric Bates, senior editor
eric.bates@rollingstone.com

Jason Fine, senior editor
jason.fine@rollingstone.com

 

 

The Nation

 

**New:

Emily Douglas, website editor

edouglas@thenation.com

has worked in legal advocacy for gay and lesbian issues – send her one of your related pieces

 

John Palattella, literary editor – maybe he’ll feature your new book!

jpalattella@thenation.com

 

New York Observer

 

**Updated:

 

John Vorwald ***Senior Web Editor
jvorwald@observer.com

 

Barry Lewis, VP, Web Editor
blewis@observer.com

 

Hillary Frey 
hfrey@observer.com

 

The Atlantic

 

**Updated contacts:

 

Bob Cohn, editorial director – theatlantic.com

bcohn@theatlantic.com

 

Sage Stossel ***Editor of The Atlantic online, also a political cartoonist.

sagestossel@theatlantic.com

 

Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, senior editor - website

jgritz@theatlantic.com

 

 

Harper’s

 

**New contacts:

 

Ben Metcalf, literary editor

ben@harpers.org

 

Jennifer Szalai, senior editor

szalai@harpers.org

 

Bill Wasik, senior editor

wasik@harpers.org

 

Luke Mitchell, senior editor

luke@harpers.org

 

 

Esquire

 

Eric Gillin - *** Website editor, hired in 2009 to make the online version more hip.

egillin@hearst.com

 

Mark Warren, executive editor

mwarren@hearst.com

 

John Kenney, managing editor

jkenney@hearst.com

 

 

Vanity Fair

 

**This guy is books editor for the magazine, maybe you should pitch him your new title.

Wayne Lawson, Literary Editor for the magazine
wayne_lawson@condenast.com

 

Jane Sarkin, Features Editor for the magazine
jane_sarkin@condenast.com

 

Michael Hogan, Online Editor
mhogan@vf.com

 

 

 

Mother Jones

 

Monika Bauerlein

bauerlein@motherjones.com - sent

 

Clara Jeffery

jeffery@motherjones.com

 

Michael Mechanic

mechanic@motherjones.com

 

The Economist

 

John Micklethwait

johnmicklethwait@economist.com

 

John Parker 
johnparker@economist.com

 

 

New York Daily News

 

Adam Berkowitz **Online Editor
aberkowitz@edit.nydailynews.com sent

 

David Ng, Executive Editor
dng@nydailynews.com

 

Orla Healy, Features
ohealy@nydailynews.com

 

 

New York Post

 

Kristin Boehm, Web Editor
webeditor@nypost.com

 

Newsday

 

Dennis Elder, Website Editor
delder@newsday.com sent

 

Details

 

Erica Cerulo, ***Online Editor
erica.cerulo@fairchildpub.com

 

Greg Williams 
gregory_williams@condenast.com

 




On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Michael Hastings <mhastings@gmail.com> wrote:
yep, stuck in berlin. i'm profiling gen. mcchrytsal for a magazine, so i met up with him in europe on his nato tour, and now will be meeting up with him in afghanistan. (basically, my plan was to head back to dc next week, then go to kabul, but the ash cloud fucked everything up.)


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Volcanoes? What are you up to, exactly?


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Michael Hastings <mhastings@gmail.com> wrote:
seriously dude, my pleasure. i've been laughing out loud all morning. next time i get stuck due to volcanoes, hope to have another one of your books with me.


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Michael-

This is perfect, just sent along to the editor. Thanks a bunch for doing this, it's much appreciated.


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Michael Hastings <mhastings@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Barrett--Really enjoyed it, thanks for sending it to me.something like this work?  Feel free to edit for clarity/brevity/grammar/humor, or just use one sentence or whatever, or if you want something longer, let me know. best, mh

"A hilarious, brilliantly crafted, full-on verbal assault on America's pundit class. Brown shows us just how lazy, stupid, and corrupt almost of all our nation's most beloved columnists have become. I'm now fully convinced that this entire generation of over-published bullshit artists deserve to be tazered in the face, one at a time, preferably on live television."  
--Michael Hastings, author of I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story

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Michael Hastings
mhastings@gmail.com
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Regards,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302



--
Michael Hastings
mhastings@gmail.com
Mobile: +1-212-945-8073
Office: +1-802-893-4476





--
Regards,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302



--
Michael Hastings
mhastings@gmail.com
Mobile: +1-212-945-8073
Office: +1-802-893-4476





--
Regards,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302