 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (memoir)

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2001) is a memoir by Toby Young about his failed five-year effort to make it in the United States as a contributing editor at Condé Nast Publications' "Vanity Fair" magazine.The book alternates Young's foibles with his ruminations about the differences in culture and society between the United States and England, and specifically between New York City and London.