Michael Hastings, the Journalist behindthe Rolling Stone Article “The Runaway General”
Michael Hastings authored the Rolling Stone article "The Runaway General" appearing in the July 8 issue of Rolling Stone. The profile of General Stanley McChrystal painted a picture of the General and his staff as being critical of President Obama and other Washington officials over their handling of the war in Afghanistan. Hastings spent a month abroad traveling with McChrystal.
“This article represents long-form magazine journalism at its best,” said Sid Holt, Chief Executive of American Society of Magazine Editors. “Magazines allow journalists the time and space to immerse themselves fully in a subject resulting in a highly original, well-researched piece of work.”
Hastings has a long and prolific career in magazine journalism. He was the Baghdad correspondent for Newsweek. He’s been a regular contributor to GQ with stories likes "Obama's War" (April 2009) and "Hack: Confessions of a Presidential Campaign Reporter" (October 2008). He has written for Foreign Policy. Other outlets for his work include The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast and True/Slant. He’s the author of the book “I Lost My Love in Baghdad.” It chronicled his life in the war-torn Iraqi capital including the death of his girlfriend Andi Parhamovich who was killed by Sunni extremists in an early 2007 ambush of her convoy.
His blog on True/Slant, which focuses on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, says that he is “addicted to unpleasant countries with little to recommend them, except for an occupation force that looks like me.” Hastings says that some of his favorite “voices” are Brett Easton Ellis, H.P. Lovecraft, Martin Amis and “whatever voices Harper’s has been publishing lately.”
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