Malcolm Brautigan first emerged into the public consciousness by way of Sultan's Secret, a serialized novel by Jonathan P. Thompson that appeared on the back page of The Silverton Mountain Journal beginning in 2000. Brautigan was also the main character in White Noise and the Atomic Rooster. He was the editor of the Dandelion Times in Silverton, Colorado, before becoming the environment and science reporter for the Tucson Tribune. In 2015 he founded Alt-News, and ran it until his conscience managed a hostile takeover and disbanded the operation, as detailed in the forthcoming novel, Behind the Slickrock Curtain. Now he is lead chocolate chip cookie baker for Better than Keks, a business that peddles baked goods outside Berlin nightclubs. Malcolm Brautigan is fictional and a figment of Jonathan P. Thompson's imagination. Any resemblance to an actual person, living or dead, is purely coincidental.