The Enthusiast - Paperback

by Josh Fruhlinger (Author)

kmac1987 is sneaking through a fence with a group of strangers to catch a glimpse of new train on the Washington Metro. Kate Berkowitz and a movie star are making jokes online about a fifty-year-old soap opera comic strip. kmac1987 and Kate Berkowitz are the same person, and her job is to get you excited about her clients without you noticing that she's doing it. Kate loves her job. She's a professional enthusiast. But it's about to get complicated.

Author Biography

In 2004, Josh Fruhlinger created The Comics Curmudgeon, a blog dedicated to analyzing and mocking newspaper comic strips. Against all expectations, this made him vaguely Internet famous, and he still updates it daily. His writing has appeared online at ITworld, Wonkette, The Awl, The Billfold, and The Toast; with Conor Lastowka, he created [Citation Needed], a blog and book series highlighting the best of Wikipedia's worst writing. The Enthusiast is his first novel. He and his wife live in Los Angeles.