Ralph Ellis’ ‘The Accident Report’ is a humorous ode to old news
Newspaper reporters were once powerful enough to topple a government using only their typewriters. Watergate sent countless scruffy idealists to J-school to emulate Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Atlanta newsman Ralph Ellis was one of them, and, for his fiction debut, he draws upon his halcyon memories in The Accident Report, a cagey, comic novel...
Newspaper reporters were once powerful enough to topple a government using only their typewriters. Watergate sent countless scruffy idealists to J-school to emulate Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Atlanta newsman Ralph Ellis was one of them, and, for his fiction debut, he draws upon his halcyon memories in The Accident Report, a cagey, comic novel...
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