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Blue Rider Press
June 2014
On Sale: June 17, 2014
338 pages
ISBN: 0399169946
EAN: 9780399169946
Kindle: B00G3L7TRM
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Fiction
The year is 2002. Weekly newsmagazines dominate the
political agenda in New York and Washington. A young
journalist named Michael M. Hastings is a twenty-two-
year-old intern at The Magazine, wet behind the ears,
the only one in the office who’s actually read his
coworker’s books. He will stop at nothing to turn his
internship into a full-time position, and he’s figured out
just whom to impress: Nishant Patel, the international
editor, and Sanders Berman, managing editor, both vying for
the job of editor in chief. While Berman and Nishant try to
one-up each other pontificating on cable news, A. E.
Peoria—the one reporter seemingly doing any work—is having a
career crisis. He’s just returned from Chad, where, instead
of the genocide, he was told by his editors to focus on
mobile phone outsourcing, which they think is more relevant.
And then, suddenly, the United States invades Iraq—and all
hell breaks loose. As Hastings loses his naïveté about the
journalism game, he must choose where his loyalties lie—with
the men at The Magazine who can advance his career or
with his friend in the field who is reporting the truth.
The Last Magazine is the debut novel from
Michael Hastings, discovered in his files after his untimely
death in June 2013. Informed by his own journalistic
experiences, it is wickedly funny, sharp, and fast-paced: a
great book about print journalism’s last glory days, and a
compelling first novel from one of America’s most treasured
reporters.
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