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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 12:00 AM

How to lose more friends and alienate more people

With his second memoir, Toby Young proves he's still a jerk -- and a rambling, irritating, unfunny writer, too.

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  • Tuesday, August 1, 2006 06:44 AM

    If you can't spot the rambling, irritating, unfunny writer in the room, Heather...

    Heather Havrilesky--she of the grating "chicken" endearments--expounds on someone else being a rambling, irritating, unfunny writer with nothing to say?

    Now I've seen it all.

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