A book trailer. For a book! For my book. My debut novel, Waiting for the Man (ECW Press) is out now worldwide. A book about the pursuit of happiness, personal branding, storytelling, luxury dude ranches, a virile minivan and the voice in our head that we can never ignore. From New York to Montana, Waiting for the Man is "a strangely engrossing, meticulously written allegory of the present moment” says Douglas Coupland (Generation X, Girlfriend in a Coma). Stephen Marche (author and columnist at esquire.com) calls the book a "novel full of...surprising and perfect delights.” And finally, this: “For a novel in part about the cynicism of marketing, this would be hard to pitch in an elevator. How do you ask someone to imagine Waiting for Godot written by an internet-addicted Joseph Heller – or, even less likely, a warm-hearted Brett Easton Ellis? This book is wonderfully hard to pin down. You’ll just have to read it for yourself.” (Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall, author) And so, naturally, I made a trailer and posted it to Slideshare. (another trailer is ou, and you can find it on YouTube: http://youtu.be/Yp4P2-GLPN8)

1. A book trailer
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2. Waiting for the Man
By Arjun Basu
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3. A story about a guy
Who listens to the voice in his head
And what happens.
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4. Or, put another way:
It’s a novel about the pursuit of happiness
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5. Or maybe it’s about the stories we tell
Or how in an age of 24/7 media we compete
to tell our own stories.
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6. Or maybe it’s about just going with the flow
Or about, um, personal branding and marketing and
the commercialization of the news business
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7. Maybe it’s about this…….
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8. This Slideshare has been
created for the purposes of
your enjoyment and to sell
my novel Waiting for the Man
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9. Of which this is the cover
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10. Waiting for the Man,
quickly told in photos
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11. Our story opens
in New York.
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12. Our hero, Joe Fields, is a
hot shot at an ad agency.
He’s created amazing
award winning campaigns
for beer and diapers and
created a new marketing
segment: hip dog food.
He’s a rising star and he
should be happy. And he
is. Until he’s not.
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13. A Venn Diagram About Productivity
Beer
Produc vity
The Platonic
Ideal of beer
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14. Joe starts dreaming of a Man.
And this dream starts to
overwhelm him. The Man’s voice
starts to speak to him in his
dreams. And then the voice starts
to permeate Joe’s waking
moments as well.
Until one day…the Man says
Wait
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15. The Man kind of looks like this guy
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16. And so Joe waits.
He decides to wait
for the Man. He sits
on his front stoop
and
waits.
And
soon a dude from
the
media
discovers him. And
Joe’s story goes
public. And is no
longer his.
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17. While waiting he eats a lot of pizza.
It becomes an issue.
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18. An excerpt:
People were being drawn to me just to take a
look. I was a spot to click into on location-based
social networks. A new kind of proper noun.
People took their own pictures. They brought
their kids, posed them in front of me, took a
picture, and left.
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19. Mookie?
Japan Wilson?
brand
Cigarette
snow Honda?
fuck
Honda
Mookie?
Wilson
fuck?
Bar Graph showing
usage of select words
in Waiting for the Man
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57
40
29
28
13
1
snow?
CigareBe?
brand?
Japan?
0?
10?
20?
30?
40?
“Fuck” includes derivations, including fucking, fuckhead, etc
“Japan” includes use of Japanese.
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20. Joe’s wait attracts the attention of the world. A girl from
Montreal*, who works the perfume counter at a suburban
department, shows up in New York, to wait with Joe.
*I, too, am from Montreal – what a coincidence
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21. And then the Man instructs Joe to “go West.” And Joe does. And a car dealer from Uniondale,
Long Island, offers to sponsor the trip, and lends Joe a red Honda Odyssey.
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22. And Joe heads West.
He knows he’s “West”
when he passes through
St. Louis.
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23. Joe eats ribs in Kansas City.
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24. And eats at a Charlie
Chaplin-themed
family restaurant in
Denver.
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25. A Pie Chart
apple
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26. Joe ends up in
Montana. At a luxury
dude
ranch/spa.
Where he tries to
forge a new life.
Until his past catches
up with him.
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27. So the question is: WHO IS THIS GUY?
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28. Was he real?
Or not?
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29. You’ll only know if you buy this book!
Available for preorder where
ever good books (and bad
books, too, are sold).
Online
Bricks n mortar
Everywhere.
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30. THANK YOU!
www.arjunbasu.com
@arjunbasu
www.facebook.com/pages.arjunbasu
http://www.ecwpress.com/
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