Last night, we were at the launch party for a book with the nifty title The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances, a memoir about the eccentric but ultimately redeeming act of buying a used car on eBay. The author, Mark Millhone (who writes for Men’s Health despite, he said, knowing nothing about either men or health), had borrowed a friend’s penthouse in the village for the shindig (celebrity sighting: Kristen Johnston of 3rd Rock from the Sun was there with her pooch, Pink). The evening was, above all, a celebration of the efficacy of writers’ groups: Millhone praised the two fellow members of his group, the cutely named Barnaby Googe Society. Millhone’s not just a journalist and memoirist; he won an Oscar back in the late ’90s for a movie he made at Columbia’s film school, and is about to start shooting his first feature film, Minuteman. He even made a miniflick about his book, and here it is.