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“The funniest, most savage takedown of the American news media since Fear and Loathing: On the CampaignTrail ’72.”—The Washington PostMichael Hastings’ untimely death at the age of thirty-three rocked the journalism community. But the New York Times bestselling author of The Operators left 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, The Last Magazine earned Hastings comparisons to Evelyn Waugh and Hunter S. Thompson and stands as a testament to one of America’s most treasured reporters.
The Last Magazine: A Novel, by Michael Hastings - Amazon Sales Rank: #1131044 in Books
- Brand: Hastings, Michael
- Published on: 2015-05-12
- Released on: 2015-05-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.01" h x .73" w x 5.34" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
The Last Magazine: A Novel, by Michael Hastings From Booklist The promise of this remarkable novel will never be fulfilled because it is that saddest of literary phenomena—the brilliant but posthumous first novel. Hastings, former Rolling Stone journalist and author of the memoir I Lost My Love in Baghdad (2008), was killed when his automobile crashed in June 2013. Here, in an apparently completed novel found in Hastings’ files after his death, the protagonist “Michael Hastings” is an intern at The Magazine, a newsweekly, and author Hastings has keen and considerable insight into the functioning of a Time-like periodical between 2002 and 2005, Iraq to Katrina. War reporter A. E. Peoria, who has been to Iraq (and elsewhere) for the magazine and is equal parts Neil Sheehan and Hunter Thompson, is the novel’s focus. The scenes of war are graphic and horrifying, and those of sex every bit as graphic and pretty horrifying themselves. Peoria has read his Conrad and Graham Greene, and Hastings, the novelist, reminds one at times of the early Robert Stone. There is an interesting twist, although with its development, the book jumps the tracks a bit. Nonetheless, this is powerful, sharp, often funny, and very compelling reading. --Mark Levine
Review “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
About the Author Michael Hastings (1980-2013) covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns.
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64 of 69 people found the following review helpful. Subversive, Inventive, Electrifying Debut By Barry Eisler When Michael Hastings died at 33, almost exactly a year ago, everyone who followed his work knew the world had lost one of its most fearless, uncompromising journalists.What we didn’t know was that we had lost an outstanding novelist, as well.The Last Magazine is so many things: a horrifying and hilarious parody; a you-are-there corporate thriller; a strange and touching love story. Most of all, it’s a gripping bildungsroman (always wanted to break that word out in a review, and I couldn’t have asked for a better opportunity). Hastings nails it all: the confusion and terror of combat; the funhouse-distorted ambivalence of sexual addiction; the grubby machinations of office politics in the corridors of a major weekly news magazine. The shallowness, the self-centeredness, the soullessness of the crabs-in-a-barrel culture Hastings deftly and scathingly depicts reminded me of the dark comedy In The Loop — these are people whose only care about the world catching fire is whether their profiles will be attractively lit by the flames.If you've read The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan, you know that part of what always set Hastings apart was his voice (at times in The Operators he almost seems to be channeling James Elroy). That voice informs everything he does in The Last Magazine, including a wonderful series of breaking-the-fourth-wall “interludes” such as, “Why I Write” (the narrator — or is it the author? Both are named Michael Hastings — explains that his magazine’s no-outside-reporting policies necessitate that he disguise this true tale as a novel) and “I’m Very Sorry” (an apology to his colleagues, and again you don’t know whether this is coming from the narrator or the author) and “How a Magazine Story Gets Written” (shades of Moby Dick!). The result is that from the first sentence you’re caught up in the meta and you don’t know where to look for the line between fiction and fact, between Hastings the narrator and Hastings the author.But I think the location of that line is of secondary importance. Because wherever the line lies, it animates truth. Over and over again as I read this story, the thing that struck me most was how searingly honest it is. Honest in its portrayal of human frailties; honest in its portrayal of what’s rotten and corrupt in journalism; most of all, honest in its portrayal of its young narrator, Michael Hastings, and of the other major character, veteran foreign correspondent A.E. Peoria (some version of an older Hastings?), both of whom suffer from many of the same weaknesses that afflict the characters around them.This is just a great, great book, and a fitting testament to the talent and drive of an exceptional person who left the world much too soon. I can’t help but be sad right now at the thought of all the other novels Hastings might have written, but now never will. But at the same time, damn, I’m just glad he wrote this one. It’s that good.
30 of 33 people found the following review helpful. One last bridge to burn By Nathan Webster Michael Hastings' gift as a journalist was his utter disregard for the "access" that seems to primarily motivate his peers - in much of his writings, Hastings never crossed a bridge where he wasn't trailing gasoline. In his most well-known book, "The Operators," he used the military embed system to savage the staff of Gen. Stanley McChrystal (not the general himself) who thought he was just another journalist who would go along to get along.In this supposedly fictional account, the "character" of Michael Hastings takes to task the top bosses at "The Magazine" of the title. With minimal research, you can find out who inspired the characters of Nishant Patel, Sander Berman and Timothy Grove. I originally thought the character of AE Peoria was meant to stand in as a grown-up version of Hastings himself, but it turns out he was inspired by a real person as well (he's the strangest, but in a backward way, the most complimentary portrayal).In the novel, these men - and to the narrative's discredit, they're all men - are venal people. Presented in the lead-up and beginning of the Iraq invasion, they bend over backwards to justify their support of the mainstream pro-war position, then backpedal as things fall apart - while never taking responsibility for selling the war in the first place. So - fictional for the book, but directly inspired by real events and actions.The book will - and should be - polarizing. It goes off the rails toward the end with some bizarre sexual couplings and coincedences that seem the sort of thing that gets written in a throw-it-at-the-wall first draft, but is long edited out by a final version. However, since this novel was basically discovered in a desk drawer, we'll take what we can get. We will never know what Hastings would have done as he revised - or if he would have chosen to release this as "fiction" at all. Given Hastings' courage and reputation, it's just as likely that this would have appeared as early chapters of his own autobiography, had he had that chance.It's a fun read - it has all the panache that we've seen in Hastings' nonfiction, and unrestrained by the requirement of "truth," he clearly enjoyed going off the rails for some quite odd moments. Like I said, an editor would likely have restrained his craziest impulses - but maybe it's good his career goes out with such an over-the-top finality.The worst that can be said about the strange interludes is they take away from the narrative's lacerating portrayal of those media elites close to power. We depend on them to do the right thing, and walk us through difficult to understand situations. Instead, the characters of Patel and Berman come across as career-oriented to a fault - they don't care about the world situation, but their own access to power.Hastings (the fictional one) is not presented in a complimentary way. It's good to see Hastings turn the lens on himself and make this "Hastings" character a social-climbing sneakthief, worming through the newsroom, spying and schmoozing. Hastings (the real one) didn't get to where he is by being a shrinking violet, and he clearly played the game. This gives a window into HOW these Washington/NYC journalists go from being the ignored intern to the top byline - it's not pretty. I wouldn't say Hastings is presenting an "apology" for himself, but a little self-loathing is clearly in evidence.I'm not going to say it's a book that "should" be read - it is a strange and strangely fun book that any fan of Hastings will definitley enjoy. It leaves us with enough of the righteous anger that we appreciated Hastings for. It's fiction for a reason, and it's "realism" is counterbalanced by some strange wackiness. But it fits. I don't know who will pick up the slack he left behind. It's not fair that his last book is an often light, kinda funny, too-easily-forgotten fictional frolic - and not some truthful takedown of the powerful.I think what's most disappointing is that the real people who inspired Berman, Patel and Grove get the last laugh. They get to go to their cocktail parties and roll their eyes, and whisper "well, a little of it's true..." and they get to take the high road during interviews and say "Well, that Michael. You know how he could be...it's such a loss...We were great friends." And they never have to answer for their blunders and arrogance.If Hastings was alive and this was nonfiction, these men would come back at Hastings with everything they had - desperate to defend their position, their supposed knowledge, the value of their "access." But now they get to laugh it off and it becomes one more nugget to boost their egos.That's a shame, especially because the real versions of most of these men have no shame.I was provided a complimentary publisher's review copy.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Kindle readers take note; thrilling and original read otherwise By Irene To the surprise of many, Michael Hastings' widow, Elise Jordan, discovered the manuscript on his computer after he died in an explosive car crash in L.A. almost one year ago exactly. A dynamic journalist known for not pulling his punches, Hastings was controversial figure almost eager to take on powerful figures, most notably General Stanley McChrystal.The Last Magazine documents his searing and raw take on the industry in which he thrived, set against the backdrop of the Iraq invasion. When protagonist Michael Hastings finally transitions from unpaid intern to temporary research assistant, his optimism and passion for the industry can only foreshadow a coming of age. Because the main character and the author share the same name, the reader spends much of the book wondering how Michael Hastings the protagonist will evolve into the journalist we knew. Enter the cast of characters based loosely on real personalities: veteran foreign correspondent A.E. Peoria (an older version of author Hastings?), collected international edition editor Nishant Patel, Southern managing editor Sander Berman, and hot-headed digital publication editor Timothy Grove. What a shame that character development takes a backseat to juicy details of corrupt events, but alas.Down the magazine media rabbit hole we go and into a tale of the rise and fall of public favor, betrayals all-too-commonplace, and a strange love story. Although the coincidences that drive the plot seem too well-placed, I forgive many of the novel's sins because of its unedited, brutally honest origins. Instead, I found myself addicted as the the real life events create a shocking turn of events at The Magazine, culminating in a bizarre yet fitting finale. Along the way, the protagonist Hastings peppers the novel with Interlude chapters that dismantle the Fourth Wall. Here we learn of the author's wry sense of humor as he guides us through this invigorating almost-satire.Although the novel, itself, was poignantly entertaining and cleverly structured, I would warn anyone who chooses to read the book digitally that the Interlude chapters are displayed as black text against a gray background, making it a little cumbersome to read. Increasing the brightness on the Kindle helped, but if given the option, The Last Magazine might be better consumed in print form.
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