MASI can write, today, the year of the Lord 2014, year 575 of the invention of printing, can one write, at the time of the Internet, a novel still centered on delusions and fears of the printed paper?

The Last Magazine is a book whose content does not raise doubts already from the title and the cover, which in the graphic alludes to the famous Newsweek. Even the name of the author is reproduced with graphic from weekly: and that plunge to the heart to read us “of Michael Hastings”. Michael died a year ago, as fast as he had lived, crashing into a 33-year-old tree on Hollywood night, after he sent the generals who led America into war swamps from Afghanistan to Afghanistan Iraq, dropping the head of the very powerful Stanley McChrystal. The Last Magazine is therefore his novel on journalism, for which even the New York Times uses illustrious precedents: from the Envoy of Evelyn Waugh to The Thousand Lights of New York by Jay McInerney. Yet Michael, this invective, had kept it hidden even from his wife, who, having rediscovered the manuscript, decided to publish it, his last tribute of love. But can we write, today, a novel centered on delusions and fears of the printed paper? Who knows what Michael would have thought, who had abandoned the old magazines for the adventure of BuzzFeed, a website with even more reckless journalism than his. And his paper journalism novel had written just ten years ago: and left in the drawer.