Martin Kihn is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer and journalist who
developed his sense of irony working as a fact-checker at Spy magazine
in the late 1980's and later as head writer of VH1's Pop-Up Video. His
articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal,
New York, GQ, Forbes, Us, Details, Cosmopolitan, Fast Company and
others. He has appeared on NPR's "Marketplace," Fox News Channel,
Foxbusiness.com and Sirius. Kihn has a BA from Yale and an MBA from
Columbia Business School, and is the author of "House of Lies: How
Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time
"
(Hachette, 2005) and "A$$hole: How I Got Rich & Happy by Not Giving a
Damn About Anyone
," which was published by Random House/Broadway last month.

Blog Entries by Martin Kihn

Isn't It Ironic - Not?

Posted May 21, 2008 | 11:26 AM (EST)


"You're an asshole, " the Chicago-based DJ said to me.

"Thank you," I said - or almost said, before he perfected an asshole move of his own. He cut me off.

"Who needs this book?" he ranted. "I totally disagree with the premise -"

"It's ironic."

The silence was epic....

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