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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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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 whoβs actually read his coworkerβs books. He will stop at nothing to turn his internship into a full-time position, and heβs 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. Peoriaβthe one reporter seemingly doing any workβis having a career crisis. Heβs 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 Iraqβand all hell breaks loose. As Hastings loses his naΓ―vetΓ© about the journalism game, he must choose where his loyalties lieβwith 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 journalismβs last glory days, and a compelling first novel from one of Americaβs most treasured reporters.
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