品牌：Toby Young
基本信息·出版社：Da Capo Press
·页码：368 页
·出版日期：2008年
·ISBN：030681613X
·条形码：9780306816130
·装帧：平装
·英语：英语
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内容简介This title is now a major motion picture releasing Autumn 2008 and starring Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, and Jeff Bridges.High-flying British journalist Toby Young set out for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan, why not Toby?But things didn't quite go according to plan. Within two years he'd been fired from Vanity Fair, banned from the most fashionable bar in the city, and couldn't get a date for love or money. Even the local AA group wanted nothing to do with him."How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" is Toby's best-selling and critically acclaimed memoir of steadily working his way down the New York food chain from glossy magazine editor to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys. A seditious attack on New York's A-list and the culture of celebrity from inside the belly of the beast, it's a book USA Today calls a "nastily funny read."This hilarious memoir is being released in this special movie tie-in edition to coincide with the release of a major movie of "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People".
作者简介Toby Young was born in 1963. In the course of his career as a journalist he has been fired from a succession of prestigious newspapers and magazines, including the Times of London, Vanity Fair, and, most recently, the Mail on Sunday. He is currently working as a restaurant critic for the Evening Standard and a drama critic for the Spectator. He lives in London. For more information, see his website: www.tobyyoung.com.
编辑推荐From Publishers Weekly
The appeal of journalist Young's memoir is his willingness to skewer himself as savagely as he does his acquaintances and colleagues. The self-portrait is rarely flattering and sometimes repellent, but carries a startling ring of truth. Young targets Manhattan's superficial social scene and gives a slashing insider's view of Vanity Fair and its parent company, Cond‚ Nast. Consumed with the desire to be "somebody," Young is hired by editor Graydon Carter and unwittingly offends everyone he seeks to impress. He learns that journalists must have "a plausible manner, rat-like cunning and a little literary ability," and he encounters a caste system so rigid that if an important editor trips and falls, etiquette dictates to leave her on the floor and walk on, rather than offer assistance or directly address her. Young's description of his efforts to crash Oscar parties is an appallingly accurate picture of wannabes whose identity depends on the celebrities they cultivate. He's amusingly perceptive in his analyses of women whose motive for marrying prominent men is to impress other women; this jealousy is brilliantly summed up by Gore Vidal's comment, "Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little." British-born Young, who has also been fired from the Times of London and the Guardian, paints Carter as a fascinatingly complex individual, capable of devastating employees or helping them face dire health problems. He also includes intriguing profiles of power couple Tina Brown and Harry Evans, and Sex and the City creator Candace Bushnell. What keeps readers on Young's side is his courage to keep fighting, even when confronted by publicist Peggy Siegal's withering line, "I have no respect for writers. They never make money. They're like poor people looking in the windows."
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FromBooklist
Inspired by Hollywood classics such asThe Front Page, British writer Young longed to move to New York and work as a journalist for a glossy magazine, hobnobbing with the rich and famous. He jumps at the chance for a tryout withVanity Fairmagazine and eventually lands a tenuous position. But he's disappointed to learn that, compared with British reporters, American journalists are sycophants, slavering over celebrities and cozying up to publicists. Still, because he is so enamored of New York, he thoroughly enjoys his stay. Eventually, however, his admittedly juvenile pranks and failure to adapt to the culture, as well as his excessive drinking, end his career atVanity Fair. Now on the fringes, freelancing for British publications, he manages to offend the powerful media couple Tina Brown and Harry Evans, triggering a lawsuit that is later dropped. But the contretemps actually helps to boost his career. This thoroughly humorous memoir provides a scathing portrait of the egomaniacal world of New York media and an insightful look at modern American celebrity culture.Vanessa Bush
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Review
"A gimlet-eyed insider's account of the status-obsessed, celebrity-beholden glossy magazine mafia." --GQ
"A scathing portrait of the egomaniacal world of New York media and an insightful look at modern American celebrity culture." --Booklist
"A sharply unflattering-and very, very funny-portrait of the magazine world's self-important 'glossy posse.'" --New York Post
"A very funny book." --Salon.com
"Achingly funny." --Globe & Mail, Toronto
"Energetic and engaging...[provides] enjoyable bitchy specifics of Conde Nast culture." --Kirkus
"Gripping Beach Read." --US Weekly
"Hilarious lifestyles of the rich and shameless . . . Young is a self-deprecating Tom Wolfe." --People--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
Roger Ebert,Chicago Sun Times, 10/02/08
“I have been a follower of the real Toby Young for years. He is much more preposterous than "Sidney Young," the hero of this film, which is based on Toby's memoir…He is a very funny writer, often providing inspiring material for himself….”How to Lose Friends & Alienate People" is possibly the best movie that could be made about Toby Young that isn't rated NC-17…In a boring old world, such people are to be prized.”
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