The Last Honest Critic
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San Francisco, 1970. British expatriate Theo Dormer is the senior music critic at Rolling Stone magazine, where he wields his pen like a scalpel. After a big scoop ensures his place in history, he's left to navigate a crumbling marriage, an unexpected connection with a rival journalist, and the complications of sudden notoriety. Behind his acerbic reviews lies a man whose disillusionment with both the mainstream and counterculture leaves him questioning what authenticity truly means in a world where everything-even revolution-has become a commodity. But what does that mean for him?
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