About the Book:

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? is a useful and easy-to-understand book used in UCLA Extension's world-famous Writers' Program.

The writer and actress shares observations on topics ranging from favourite male archetypes and her hatred of dieting to her relationship with her mother and the haphazard creative process in the writers' room.

Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck-impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence "Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I'll shut up about it?"

Perhaps you want to know what Mindy Kaling thinks makes a great best friend (someone who will fill your prescription in the middle of the night), or what makes a great guy (one who is aware of all elderly people in any room at any time and acts accordingly), or what is the perfect amount of fame (so famous you can never get convicted of murder in a court of law), or how to maintain a trim figure (you will not find that information in these pages). If so, you've come to the right book, mostly!

In her best-selling Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, she invites you on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood, with several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls. After reading this half memoir, half comedy bits, you will see that Mindy Kaling really has become the epitome of New Hollywood – a multi-talented multi-tasker who's rewriting the industry rulebook one quip at a time.

What people say:

"She's like Tina Fey's cool little sister. Or perhaps… the next Nora Ephron." — The New York Times

"The fashion opinions of Kelly Kapoor mixed with a Miss Manners-esque advice column." — Entertainment Weekly

"If you love Kelly and think the three minutes or so allotted her on episodes of The Office are too few, you can take home Mindy." — The New Yorker

"Is anyone else kind of sold on the genius title alone?" — Nylon

"Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) is hilarious and relatable—just like Kaling's classic Tweets." — Ladies Home Journal

About the Author:

Mindy Kaling is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and writer who graduated with a degree in playwriting from Dartmouth College, having studied with playwrights August Wilson and Joe Sutton. She is an Emmy-nominated writer and actress on the NBC sitcom The Office. She is also the creator and star of FOX's The Mindy Project.