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
When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
'The Pushcart War' is presented as a history of a conflict that has not yet taken place; in each edition of the book, the date on which the hostilities commenced is nudged forward.
Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.
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.
My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.
My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.
It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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.
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.
I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.
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.