Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can'…

- Tom Rachman

Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and eve…

- Tom Rachman

People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs

- Tom Rachman

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

- Tom Rachman

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

- Tom Rachman

A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article a…

- Tom Rachman

Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, so…

- Tom Rachman

Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.

- Tom Rachman

During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and…

- Tom Rachman