How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (2001) is a memoir by Toby Young about his failed five-year effort to make it in the U.S. as a contributing editor at Condé Nast Publications' Vanity Fair magazine. He has written a sequel called The Sound of No Hands Clapping which chronicles his failure as a Hollywood screenwriter in the years after he left New York.
A feature length film, titled How to Lose Friends & Alienate People was released in October 2008. It is directed by Robert B. Weide and stars Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, and Megan Fox.
The title of Young's book is a parody of the title of Dale Carnegie's 1937 bestseller, How to Win Friends and Influence People. However, a parody by Irving Tressler, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, was also published in 1937.[1] Young's book does not reference either Carnegie's or Tressler's works.
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