Sunday, May 30, 2010

An artful look inside a newspaper The Imperfectionists

The Philadelphia Inquirer loves Tom Rachman's novel "The Imperfectionist."

"The zealous corrections editor, the bitter copy editor with her specified chair (always misplaced), the freelancers and far-flung stringers, the frenzied rush to deadline, the appreciative nod to a nicely turned headline, the cynics, the grumps, the jerks, the egos, the anxiety - Rachman, a former Associated Press reporter based in Rome, a former International Herald Tribune editor in Paris, has it all down, concisely, cinematically, with impressive humor and grace."

Click on the title to read the full review.

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