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all the President's Men, the novelist chose his favorite stories of a business problem

was a correspondent of the Associated Press and worked as an editor in the International Herald Tribune. His first novel, The Imperfectionists, is published in paperback this week.

Imperfectionists in the library The Guardian

"I have never tried to write a novel about journalists. I worked for several years as a reporter and editor, however, so I wanted to write fiction. And the last thing I wanted was for my day job into my dream. But I made up characters and plots that could not deny that a different story unfolded before me. The press was in decline catastrophic. The cornerstone of our culture is changing before my eyes, and no one to my knowledge chroncling was in fiction.

"So I took a crack at it, move to a title, Imperfectionists, which - considering the woes of newspapers lately -. sounds a bit more accurate than ever wanted

"In general, the representations fall into two categories journalist: .. journalist or the journalist as a hero such as rats or as my own experience, the press, I found, was flawed, funny smart, groping, -. spiritual and a series of adjectives beyond So I wrote the characters (and not on the basis of my former colleagues, I might add), which I think realistically captured the world among my favorite books in the period are as follows 10, a mishmash. novels and short stories and anthologies, my choice for the greatest novel of all media. "

1. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Published in 1938, this satirical masterpiece recounts the misadventures of a young and timid writer of articles on the English countryside, which, by mistake, is sent to cover the civil war in Africa . Following disasters, as the most memorable scenes in the genre, enough to soothe generations of inept foreign correspondents.

2. The journalist and the murderer by Janet Malcolm

An essay on the relationship between the journalist and messy affair, a matter that often begins with seduction and ends with the betrayal. I read this in journalism school and was paralyzed and later, at work, I realized what he was astute

3. The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Fowler is a correspondent in the Middle Ages in the British professional habit to observe the suffering of others at a distance. When he meets a young idealistic American with plans to set up in Vietnam, Fowler decided to act. As relevant today as when it was published in 1955.

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