Aside from Caragiale, the journalist Geo Bogza, writing after the town's economic decline had begun, helped impress on the public Mizil's image as a place where nothing important ever happens, in a 1938 reportage titled "175 de minute la Mizil" ("175 Minutes in Mizil") and summarised as "the adventure of the banal". Other literary portrayals have been undertaken by local writers, including the poets Mihai Negulescu and Petre Strihan; the journalist and poet George Ranetti ("Romeo și Julieta la Mizil", "Romeo and Juliet in Mizil"); Joachim Botez ("Însemnările unui Belfer", "Notes of an Idle Rich Man"; Minerva la Mizil, "Minerva at Mizil"; "De la Piatra la Mizil", "From Piatra to Mizil"; "Împușcat la Mizil", "Gunned Down in Mizil"); and the novels of Cosmin Manolache since 2000, including "Ce față cumplită am" ("What a Cruel Face I Have").