Calvin Trillin's 1980 novel, titled after a journalist who bounces from section to section at a national news weekly, might be the most accurate depiction of the types of people who inhabit a newsroom – or at least did during the early part of my career – I've ever read. The snark, sarcasm, plotting, nicknames, drinking and rumored office affairs are all played for laughs here but will strike home to anyone who worked at a newspaper in the 1980s.
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