The Enthusiast (27 page)
Authors: Charlie Haas
T
hanks to my spectacular editors, Peggy Hageman and Marjorie Braman, along with Amy Baker, Erica Barmash, Kolt Beringer, Robin Bilardello, Jenna Dolan, Jennifer Hart, Carrie Kania, Cal Morgan, and everyone at HarperCollins.
And to my cool, crusading agent, Chris Calhoun, plus Dong-Won Song and everyone at Sterling Lord.
Sam Douglas made great editorial contributions, for which I'm forever indebted. Bob Roe was unstinting with both literary insight and moral example. Nancy Hass, Jon Carroll, Tracy Johnston, Tom Moran, Denny Abrams, Joshua Baer, and B. K. Moran gave and gave.
And: Jim Barringer and Noël Lawrence, Lisa Brenneis and Jim Churchill, Sam Brown and Alison Teal, Greg Calegari, Kent Carroll, the Honorable Dean H. Chamberlain, Stuart Cornfeld,
Joe Dante, De Lauer's Super Newsstand, Christine Doudna and Rick Grand-Jean, Sean Elder, John Field, Mike Finnell, Mel Fiske, Danny and Hilary Goldstine, all of life's Haases and Joneses, William Hood, James D. Houston, Tim Hunter, Issues, Jonathan Kaplan, Bob and Maggie Klein, Wendy Lesser and Richard Rizzo, Peter Lynn and everyone at Spring Break Buggy Blast, Anwyl McDonald and Meredith Tromble, Marlene and Rick Millikan, Marcia Millman, the Nits, David and Janet Peoples, Luigi Pinotti, Colin Portnuff, A. Roger Pothus, Frank Ratliff, Frank and Mary Robertson, Andy Romanoff and Darcy Vebber, Jane Sindell, Martin Spencer, Michael Tashker, Richie White, Carter Wilson, Renee Witt, and Alison Yerxa.
My brother, Ken Haas, inspired me all his life and still does.
CHARLIE HAAS
's writing has appeared in
Esquire, New West, The Threepenny Review
, and
Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing
, among many other journals. His screenwriting credits include
Over the Edge, Gremlins 2
, and
Matinee
. He lives in Oakland with his wife, the writer and editor B. K. Moran.
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This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE ENTHUSIAST
. Copyright © 2009 by Charlie Haas. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Adobe Digital Edition May 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-187970-8
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