{"product_id":"2940169520101","title":"The Last Magazine: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA posthumous debut novel¿wry, wise, and outrageous¿from award-winning journalist Michael Hastings, based on his experiences working for \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u003ci\u003e Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Hastings loses his naïveté about the journalism game, he must choose where his loyalties lie: with the men at the\u003ci\u003e Magazine \u003c\/i\u003ewho can advance his career or with his friend in the field who is reporting the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Magazine \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eScoop\u003c\/i\u003e, Hunter S. Thompson¿s \u003ci\u003eThe Rum Diary\u003c\/i\u003e, and Calvin Trillin¿s \u003ci\u003eFloater\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162285293808,"sku":"2940169520101","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169520101_p0.jpg?v=1769896055","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169520101","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}