Adam Mansbach
Adam Mansbach
Adam Mansbachis an American author, and has previously been a visiting writer and professor of literature at Rutgers University-Camden, with their New Voices Visiting Writers program. Mansbach wrote the "children's book for adults" Go the Fuck to Sleep. Other books Mansbach has written include Angry Black White Boy, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005, and The End of the Jews. Mansbach was the founding editor of the 1990s hip-hop journal Elementary. He lives in Berkeley, California and co-hosts...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth1 July 1976
CountryUnited States of America
Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.
Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.
I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.
I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.
My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.