In the shadow of a crumbling publishing industry, a band of ambitious and idealistic editors embark on a mission to launch the last great American magazine—to catastrophic and hilarious ends. Led by the utterly untrustworthy Lungs Kamov, The Horn promises a return to the Golden Age of print, bolstered by the talents of Anele Natkin, radical personal essayist, Gilda Burger-Barnes, investigative journalist with a trust fund, and Magazine's anonymous narrator, the publication's long-suffering, hopelessly romantic managing editor. Mordantly funny and full of heart, Magazine illuminates the absurdity and precariousness of the 21st century media economy, in which perpetual crisis is set against undying belief in the importance of arts and letters.

Ben Lasman's fiction has been published in Granta, Tin House, Wired, The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. A journalist and editor, he is online manager for Library of America, the nonprofit publisher and literary organization. Magazine is his first novel.

"This book is a wonder. It is hilarious and astute, offering lacerating cultural commentary and heartbreaking insights into loneliness. Every sentence has something to offer. I loved it." — Jonathan Safran Foer