Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent publisher.
 Akashic Books' collection began with Arthur Nersesian's "The Fuck Up" in 1997, and has since expanded to include Dennis Cooper's "Little House on the Bowery" series, Chris Abani's Black Goat poetry series, and the internationally successful "Noir" series, originating with Brooklyn Noir, since expanding to international titles such as "Delhi Noir" and "Havana Noir."
The Night Of is an American eight-part crime drama television miniseries based on "Criminal Justice", a 2008–09 British television series.
 The miniseries was written by Richard Price and Steven Zaillian and directed by Zaillian and James Marsh.
 Broadcast on HBO, "The Night Of" premiered on July 10, 2016 to critical acclaim.
 The first episode premiered on June 24, 2016, via HBO on-demand.
The Falcon and the Snowman is a 1985 American spy drama film directed by John Schlesinger.
 The screenplay by Steven Zaillian is based on the 1979 book "The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage" by Robert Lindsey, and tells the true story of two young American men, Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) and Andrew Daulton Lee (Sean Penn), who sold US security secrets to the Soviet Union.
 The film features the song "This Is Not America," written and performed by David Bowie and the Pat Metheny Group.
My Dead Boyfriend is a 2016 American comedy film directed by Anthony Edwards and starring Heather Graham.
 The film is based on Arthur Nersesian's 2000 novel "Dogrun".
Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is an American screenwriter, director, film editor, producer.
 He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for his screenplay "Schindler's List" (1993) and has also earned Oscar nominations for "Awakenings", "Gangs of New York" and "Moneyball".
 He was presented with the Distinguished Screenwriter Award at the 2009 Austin Film Festival and the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America in 2011.
 Zaillian is the founder of Film Rites, a film production company.
Searching for Bobby Fischer, released in the United Kingdom as Innocent Moves, is a 1993 American drama film written and directed by Steven Zaillian.
 The film was Zaillian's directorial debut, and stars Max Pomeranc, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen, Ben Kingsley and Laurence Fishburne.
 It is based on the life of prodigy chess player Joshua Waitzkin, played by Pomeranc, and adapted from the book of the same name by Joshua's father Fred.
A Civil Action is a 1998 American drama film directed by Steven Zaillian and starring John Travolta (as plaintiff's attorney Jan Schlichtmann) and Robert Duvall, and that is based on the book of the same name by Jonathan Harr.
 Both the book and the film are based on a true story of a court case about environmental pollution that took place in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s.
 The film and court case revolve around the issue of trichloroethylene, an industrial solvent, and its contamination of a local aquifer.
 A lawsuit was filed over industrial operations that appeared to have caused fatal cases of leukemia and cancer, as well as a wide variety of other health problems, among the citizens of the town.
 The case involved is "Anne Anderson, et al., v. Cryovac, Inc., et al.".
 The first reported decision in the case is at 96 F.R.D. 431 (denial of defendants' motion to dismiss).
 Duvall was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance.
Arthur Nersesian is an American novelist, playwright, and poet.
 Nersesian is of Armenian and Irish descent.
 He was born and raised in New York City.
 His novels include "The Fuck-up", "Manhattan Loverboy", "Dogrun", "Chinese Takeout", "Suicide Casanova" and "Unlubricated."
 He has also published a collection of plays, "East Village Tetralogy."
 He has written three books of poems and one book of plays.
 In 2005, Nersesian received the Anahid Literary Prize for Armenian Literature for his novel "Unlubricated."
 Nersesian is the managing editor of the literary magazine, "The Portable Lower East Side", and was an English teacher at Hostos Community College, City University of New York, in the South Bronx.
 His novel "Dogrun" was adapted into the 2016 feature film "My Dead Boyfriend".
Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical period drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and scripted by Steven Zaillian.
 It is based on the novel "Schindler's Ark" by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally.
 The film relates a period in the life of Oskar Schindler, an ethnic German businessman, during which he saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II.
 It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.
American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian.
 The film is fictionally based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by detective Richie Roberts.
 The film stars Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington in their first lead acting roles together since 1995's "Virtuosity".
 The film also co-stars Ted Levine, John Ortiz, Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Norman Reedus, Ruby Dee, Lymari Nadal and Cuba Gooding Jr.

Question: Are both Steven Zaillian and Arthur Nersesian american?
Answer: yes