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A posthumous debut novel--wry, wise, and outrageous--from award-winning journalist Michael Hastings, based on his experiences working for Newsweek The year is 2002. Weekly news magazines dominate the political agenda in New York and Washington. A young journalist named Michael M. Hastings is an intern at the Magazine, wet behind the ears, the only one in the office who has actually read his coworkers' books. He will stop at nothing to turn his internship into a full-time position and has figured out just who 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 has just returned from Chad, where instead of reporting on the genocide, he was told by his editors to focus on mobile-phone outsourcing, as it's more relevant. Then suddenly, the United States invades Iraq--and all hell breaks loose. As Hastings loses his na├'vet├(R) 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 death in June 2013. Based on Hastings' own experiences, it is funny, sharp, and fast-paced, a great book about the news game's final days in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary, and Calvin Trillin's Floater.
What a novel it is! Tenacity and perseverance were the qualities that helped Hastings become a star reporter for GQ and Rolling Stone, and they inform the novel s narrative, creating a story as engrossing as it is believable. While the characters are not always likable, they are unfailingly engaging. And the breakneck pace of the narrative is so unrelenting, it makes you wonder if Hastings lived as he wrote. Newsweek
Even from the grave Mr. Hastings has demonstrated anew an ability to reframe the debate. The novel .reads as vivid archaeology that reveals much about the present moment The milieu of the book paints a picture of a treehouse where like minds connive and look for an opening. But far below them, there is the sound of sawing steady and implacable. The tree will fall .Remarkable. David Carr, The New York Times
Scathing, funny, rollicking. The Barnes and Noble Review
Frenetic and darkly funny. Rolling Stone
Terrifyingly funny .entrancing, compelling. Shelf Awareness
The Last Magazine is tender and brutal, worldly and inbred, high-minded and gross, smartly rendered and rough around the edges and quite often hilarious The Last Magazine is the funniest, most savage takedown of the American news media since Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail 72, by his hero Hunter S. Thompson. James Rosen, The Washington Post
[The Last Magazine] is fast and funny and humane. When I put it down, it called to be picked up again. Dwight Garner, The New York Times
What makes this novel work really, I can t think of a better little tome to take to the beach is that it s just so much fun, so wicked, so amusing, and so brilliantly observed. The caricatures of people living and dead (career-wise) are only part of its charm. I haven t read a better send-up of hackery since the last time I dove into Evelyn Waugh s 1938 classic Scoop. Christopher Dickey, The Daily Beast
As a provocative piece of thinly fictionalized nonfiction, [The Last Magazine] is a posthumous mission accomplished Hastings s book is a message in a bottle that has belatedly washed up on shore to force us to remember how we landed where we are now. Frank Rich, New York Magazine
That voice. That witty, subversive voice we thought we'd lost, is back for one last romp. Hastings decodes the culture even more incisively in fiction, with wild bursts of imaginative mischief. So damn funny. Dave Cullen, New York Times bestselling author of Columbine
[Hastings ] keen eye for the creatures of the New York media universe focuses on the fabricated lifestyles of that world's desperate inhabitants. Here, no one is immune .The suffering amid the insufferable is comic gold, and Hastings had no time for heroes. The world he created is filled with lost boys stamping their feet for validation. This could be the perfect summer bro comedy. Paging Judd Apatow! Mark Guarino, Chicago Tribune
A convincing account of the perils of war -- and of the journalistic wars of an institution under siege from New Media . The Last Magazine remains a loving account of a profession Hastings believed was honorable and tried to honor. Only the guilty have something to fear. Paul Wilner, San Francisco Chronicle
Surely Michael Hastings would have savored the taste of revenge had he lived to see his first novel, The Last Magazine published The humor throughout is searing .entertaining. Sherryl Connelly, New York Daily News
"Remarkable... Hastings, the novelist, reminds one at times of the early Robert Stone." Booklist
"A messy, caustic and very funny satire.... A ribald comedy about doing time in the trenches and the bitter choices that integrity demands." --Kirkus
Even from the grave Mr. Hastings has demonstrated anew an ability to reframe the debate. The novel .reads as vivid archaeology that reveals much about the present moment The milieu of the book paints a picture of a treehouse where like minds connive and look for an opening. But far below them, there is the sound of sawing steady and implacable. The tree will fall .Remarkable. David Carr, The New York Times
Scathing, funny, rollicking. The Barnes and Noble Review
Frenetic and darkly funny. Rolling Stone
Terrifyingly funny .entrancing, compelling. Shelf Awareness
The Last Magazine is tender and brutal, worldly and inbred, high-minded and gross, smartly rendered and rough around the edges and quite often hilarious The Last Magazine is the funniest, most savage takedown of the American news media since Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail 72, by his hero Hunter S. Thompson. James Rosen, The Washington Post
[The Last Magazine] is fast and funny and humane. When I put it down, it called to be picked up again. Dwight Garner, The New York Times
What makes this novel work really, I can t think of a better little tome to take to the beach is that it s just so much fun, so wicked, so amusing, and so brilliantly observed. The caricatures of people living and dead (career-wise) are only part of its charm. I haven t read a better send-up of hackery since the last time I dove into Evelyn Waugh s 1938 classic Scoop. Christopher Dickey, The Daily Beast
As a provocative piece of thinly fictionalized nonfiction, [The Last Magazine] is a posthumous mission accomplished Hastings s book is a message in a bottle that has belatedly washed up on shore to force us to remember how we landed where we are now. Frank Rich, New York Magazine
That voice. That witty, subversive voice we thought we'd lost, is back for one last romp. Hastings decodes the culture even more incisively in fiction, with wild bursts of imaginative mischief. So damn funny. Dave Cullen, New York Times bestselling author of Columbine
[Hastings ] keen eye for the creatures of the New York media universe focuses on the fabricated lifestyles of that world's desperate inhabitants. Here, no one is immune .The suffering amid the insufferable is comic gold, and Hastings had no time for heroes. The world he created is filled with lost boys stamping their feet for validation. This could be the perfect summer bro comedy. Paging Judd Apatow! Mark Guarino, Chicago Tribune
A convincing account of the perils of war -- and of the journalistic wars of an institution under siege from New Media . The Last Magazine remains a loving account of a profession Hastings believed was honorable and tried to honor. Only the guilty have something to fear. Paul Wilner, San Francisco Chronicle
Surely Michael Hastings would have savored the taste of revenge had he lived to see his first novel, The Last Magazine published The humor throughout is searing .entertaining. Sherryl Connelly, New York Daily News
"Remarkable... Hastings, the novelist, reminds one at times of the early Robert Stone." Booklist
"A messy, caustic and very funny satire.... A ribald comedy about doing time in the trenches and the bitter choices that integrity demands." --Kirkus