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'Last Magazine' was star reporter's last journalism satire

Author Michael Hastings died at 33 in 2013.
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'Last Magazine' was star reporter's last journalism satire
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Author Michael Hastings died at 33 in 2013. ______________

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'Last Magazine' was star reporter's last journalism satire

Bob Minzesheimer , USA TODAY 2 p.m. EDT June 29, 2014

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found in his computer after his death.

It's a semi-autobiographical satire narrated by a smart, ironic young
writer and fact-checker named Michael Hastings. He works at the New
York offices of The Magazine, a fictional version of Newsweek. It's set

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them, it's be someone else, right?''

As a satire, it's not in the same league as my favorite novels about
the limits of journalism: Evelyn Waugh's Scoop (1938), Calvin Trillin's
Floater (1980), and Tom Rachman's The Imperfectionists (2010).