The Last Magazine

Michael Hastings (Get this book)
The promise of this remarkable novel will never be fulfilled because it is that saddest of literary phenomenathe 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. This is powerful, sharp, often funny, and very compelling reading.--Booklist