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Media copies: April Whitney 415.537.4253 april_whitney@chroniclebooks.com
RSVP to attend the book launch: Ramneek Kang |
October 9, 2014: The Indo-American Arts Council is delighted to invite all media to Aasif Mandvi's debut book launch of NO LAND'S MAN on November 3rd, 7-10 pm at the Aicon Gallery, 35 Great Jones Street, NYC. The evening comprises of a Reading of Aasif's book by four actors, music by Gold Spot, a Q&A with Aasif and a surprise moderator, a wine reception as well as book sales and signing.
When someone asks Aasif Mandvi where he’s from--the answer is complicated: a baby born in Bombay, a boy raised in northern England, a teenager transplanted to Florida, and now as a man living in New York. |
In No Land’s Man, his first collection of personal essays, Mandvi reveals the many, and often contradictory, layers of identity that make up who he has become today. From boarding school bullies branding him “Curry Pot” and casting directors passing him over for not being “Indian” enough, to reading the Koran at a bible study group during college, and developing a character that came to eclipse his own as a correspondent on The Daily Show With John Stewart, his life has become his source of both confusion and inspiration. In No Land’s Man he embarks on a complex journey that will be familiar to anyone who has had to make his or her way in the murky space between a person and his past.
A mix of humorous stories, heartfelt observations, and misfit mayhem, No Land’s Man is a quintessentially American story-a laugh-out-loud account of a second-generation immigrant’s search for meaning and identity in an increasingly confusing world. |
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| Aasif Mandvi is a correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. As a writer, Mandvi is the recipient of the 1999 OBIE award for his critically acclaimed play, Sakina’s Restaurant, which was performed and conceived by Mandvi, and was adapted into the film, Today’s Special. Some of his theatre credits include the Broadway revival of Oklahoma!, as well as Homebody/Kabul, Suburbia, and Disgraced. His film credits include Premium Rush, The Proposal, The Last Airbender, The Internship, and Million Dollar Arm. Mandvi’s television credits include Jericho, Curb Your Enthusiasm, E.R, Sleeper Cell and HBO’s upcoming The Brink, on which he also serves as writer and producer. He lives and works in New York City. |
The book launch is also a KICK OFF for the First Annual IAAC Literary Festival presented in collaboration with the South Asia Institute, Columbia University and India Abroad. It is scheduled for November 7-9th at the South Asia Institute, Columbia University, NYC. /Literary-Festival2014/index.htm.
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| All media are invited to the Opening Reception on November 7th featuring Salman Rushdie/Literary-Festival2014/Opening-Night.htm, the Closing Reception on November 9th featuring Ayad Akhtar /Literary-Festival2014/Closing-Night.htm as well as the rest of the festival on November 8th & 9th /Literary-Festival2014/Schedule.htm |
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Actor.
Writer.
Indo-British-Muslim-American.
No Land’s Man
By Aasif Mandvi
6 x 9 in; 160 pp; Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4521-0791-2
$22.95 |
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| About No Land's Man: |
When someone asks Aasif Mandvi where he’s from--the answer is complicated: a baby
born in Bombay, a boy raised in northern England, a teenager transplanted to Florida,
and now as a man living in New York. In No Land’s Man, his first collection of personal
essays, Mandvi reveals the many, and often contradictory, layers of identity that make
up who he has become today. From boarding school bullies branding him “Curry Pot”
and casting directors passing him over for not being “Indian” enough, to reading the
Koran at a bible study group during college, and developing a character that came to
eclipse his own as a correspondent on The Daily Show With John Stewart, his life has
become his source of both confusion and inspiration. In No Land’s Man he embarks on
a complex journey that will be familiar to anyone who has had to make his or her way
in the murky space between a person and his past.
A mix of humorous stories, heartfelt observations, and misfit mayhem, No Land’s Man is a
quintessentially American story - a laugh-out-loud account of a second-generation
immigrant’s search for meaning and identity in an increasingly confusing world. |
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| About the Author: |
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| Aasif Mandvi is a correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. As a writer, Mandvi is the recipient of the 1999 OBIE award for his critically acclaimed play, Sakina’s Restaurant, which was performed and conceived by Mandvi, and was adapted into the film, Today’s Special. Some of his theatre credits include the Broadway revival of Oklahoma!, as well as Homebody/Kabul, Suburbia, and Disgraced. His film credits include Premium Rush, The Proposal, The Last Airbender, The Internship, and Million Dollar Arm. Mandvi’s television credits include Jericho, Curb Your Enthusiasm, E.R, Sleeper Cell and HBO’s upcoming The Brink, on which he also serves as writer and producer. He lives and works in New York City. |
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