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July 2002 If failiure is the new success, Toby Young should be a shoo-in for man of the year. In his mordant, self-lacerating memoir, the British journalist recounts his disastrous attempt to conquer New York's media machine. Hired as a star contributor to Vanity Fair in 1995, he immediately embarked on a series of career-derailing faux pas, such as hiring a strippergram on Take Our Daughters To Work Day. By decade's end, he was reduced to doing an undercover exposé of lipstick lesbians for a less prestigious magazine. "I realized it was time to go home," he says. Now the 39-year-old Young is having the last laugh. His gimlet-eyed insider's account of the status-obsessed, celebrity beholden glossy-magazine mafia is already a hit in England, and it has been optioned to be made into a film.
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