Last One In

By Nicholas Kulish

Subjects: Iraq war, 2003-2011, fiction, United States. Marine Corps, Gossip columnists, Fiction, humorous, general, United States, open_syllabus_project, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Humor (Fiction), Embedded war correspondents, Friendship

Description: Jimmy Stephens makes the worst mistake of his career as a gossip columnist when he wrongly accuses a big star of cheating on his wife. With lawsuits pending, Jimmy's imperious new editor blackmails him into taking the place of the paper's injured front-line war correspondent. Shipped off to the desert and embedded with a group of foulmouthed but fraternal Marines, Jimmy provides a bewildered but unfiltered view of the invasion of Iraq that is alternately hair-raising, hilarious, and heartbreaking.