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It's also a seditious attack on the culture of celebrity from inside the belly of the beast. But it's not just a collection of self-deprecating anecdotes. How To Lose Friends & Alienate People is Toby Young's hilarious account of the five years he spent steadily working his way down the New York food chain, from glossy magazine editor to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys. New York took him and spat out the pips Young promptly turned the experience into a bestselling book about failure, casting himself as a self-deprecating Englishman up against a city and culture. Even the local AA group wanted nothing to do with him. Within the space of two years he was fired from Vanity Fair, banned from the most fashionable bar in the city and couldn't get a date for love or money. Other Brits had taken Manhattan - Alistair Cooke, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour - so why couldn't he? Surely, it would only be a matter of time before the Big Apple was in the palm of his hand. In 1995, high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
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