How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (memoir) to sue him) and "Vanity Fair"'s own Graydon Carter. Young also describes awkward run-ins with American celebrities including Nathan Lane, Mel Gibson and Diana Ross. Throughout the book, Young describes being tormented by his friend "Alex de Silva" (speculated to be Sacha Gervasi), a former colleague of Young's who manages to succeed in America in every way that Young does not. The title of Young's book is a parody of the title of Dale Carnegie's 1937 perennial bestseller, "How to Win Friends and Influence People"; a parody by Irving Tressler titled "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" was also
How to Make Trouble and Influence People on "Culture Jamming: How to Make Trouble and Influence People", broadcast in 1998 and also featured in "Head Space" No 4, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's monthly Arts and Culture Magazine. A collected and expanded version of all three of the original publications, "How to Make Trouble and Influence People: Pranks, Hoaxes, Graffiti and Mischief-making from Across Australia" () was collated by Iain McIntyre and Breakdown Press for release in October 2009. The 276-page book includes expanded historical listings, over 300 photographs and 14 interviews with Australian trouble makers. How to Make Trouble and Influence People How to Make Trouble and