The Imperfectionists: A Novel by Tom Rachman

On May 24, 2011, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Wilfried F. Voss

In his zinger of a debut, Rachman deftly applies his experience as foreign correspondent and editor to chart the goings-on at a scrappy English-language newspaper in Rome. Chapters read like exquisite short stories, turning out the intersecting lives of the men and women who produce the paper—and one woman who reads it religiously, if belatedly. In the opening chapter, aging, dissolute Paris correspondent Lloyd Burko pressures his estranged son to leak information from the French Foreign Ministry, and in the process unearths startling family fare that won’t sell a single edition.

Being A Successful Newspaper The Old-Fashioned Way

On June 18, 2010, in Greenfield, MA, Life in New England, Marketing, by Wilfried F. Voss

New York Times, Washington Post, and all other big newspapers all over the country struggling to survive the Internet boom, here is my ode to the Recorder, serving the people of Greenfield, Massachusetts and the North Quabbin region.