{"product_id":"the-last-magazine-isbn-9780147516183","title":"The Last Magazine","description":"\u003cb\u003e“The funniest, most savage takedown of the American news media since Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Hastings’ untimely death at the age of thirty-three rocked the journalism community. But the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Operators \u003c\/i\u003eleft behind an unexpected legacy: a wickedly funny novel based on Hastings’s own journalistic experiences in the mid-2000s. Discovered in his files, the novel features a wet-behind-the-ears intern named Michael M. Hastings who must choose between his career and the truth. A searing portrait of print journalism’s last glory days,\u003ci\u003e The Last Magazine \u003c\/i\u003eearned Hastings comparisons to Evelyn Waugh and Hunter S. Thompson and stands as a testament to one of America’s most treasured reporters.“What a novel it is! Tenacity and perseverance were the qualities that helped Hastings become a star reporter for \u003ci\u003eGQ \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone, \u003c\/i\u003eand 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.” –\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Scathing, funny, rollicking.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Barnes and Noble Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Frenetic and darkly funny.” – \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Terrifyingly funny ….entrancing, compelling.” – \u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Last Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e is tender and brutal, worldly and inbred, high-minded and gross, smartly rendered and rough around the edges — and quite often hilarious…\u003ci\u003eThe Last Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e is the funniest, most savage takedown of the American news media since \u003ci\u003eFear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72\u003c\/i\u003e, by his hero Hunter S. Thompson.”—James Rosen, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[\u003ci\u003eThe Last Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e] is fast and funny and humane. When I put it down, it called to be picked up again.” –Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eScoop\u003c\/i\u003e.”—Christopher Dickey, \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As a provocative piece of thinly fictionalized nonfiction, [\u003ci\u003eThe Last Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e] 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, \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eColumbine \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[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, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A convincing account of the perils of war -- and of the journalistic wars of an institution under siege from New Media…. \u003ci\u003eThe Last Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e remains a loving account of a profession Hastings believed was honorable and tried to honor. Only the guilty have something to fear.” –Paul Wilner, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Surely Michael Hastings would have savored the taste of revenge had he lived to see his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e published…The humor throughout is searing….entertaining.”—Sherryl Connelly,\u003ci\u003e New York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Remarkable... Hastings, the novelist, reminds one at times of the early Robert Stone.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A messy, caustic and very funny satire.... A ribald comedy about doing time in the trenches and the bitter choices that integrity demands.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Hastings\u003c\/b\u003e was a contributing editor to \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e and a correspondent at large for BuzzFeed. Before that he worked for \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, where he rose to prominence covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was the recipient of the 2010 George Polk Award for his \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e magazine story \u003ci\u003eThe Runaway General\u003c\/i\u003e. Hastings was the author of three books, \u003ci\u003eI Lost My Love in Baghdad, Panic 2012, The Operators\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 2013, and was posthumously honored with the Norman Mailer Award for Emerging Journalist.","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305205289189,"sku":"NP9780147516183","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780147516183.jpg?v=1767740142","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-last-magazine-isbn-9780147516183","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}