Adam Mansbach
| Adam Mansbach | |
|---|---|
 Adam Mansbach at the 2013 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | 1976 |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | Go the Fuck to Sleep |
Adam Mansbach is 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 (2009-2011).[1][2] Mansbach wrote the "children's book for adults" Go the Fuck to Sleep.[3] Other books Mansbach has written include Angry Black White Boy, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005,[4] and The End of the Jews[5] (for which he won the California Book Award for fiction in 2008).[6][7] Mansbach was the founding editor of the 1990s hip-hop journal Elementary.[4] He lives in Berkeley, California and co-hosts a radio show, "Father Figures".[2][8]
Bibliography
Novels
- Shackling Water (2003)
- Angry Black White Boy, Three Rivers Press/Random House (2005)
- The End of the Jews (2009)
- Rage is Back, Viking/Penguin (2013)
- The Dead Run, William Morrow/HarperCollins (2013)[9][10][11][12][13]
Poetry
- genius b-boy cynics getting weeded in the garden of delights (2001)
Humor
- Go the Fuck to Sleep (2011)
- Seriously, Just Go To Sleep (2012)
- You Have to Fucking Eat (2014) ISBN 978-1617753787
Anthology contributions
- All The Words Past The Margins, in Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic. Edited by Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai (Basic Civitas Books, 2010)[4]
Video
- Wake the Fuck Up (2012)
References
- ↑ "Lit-Hop". Archived from the original on 5 December 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Adam Mansbach's biography page". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
- ↑ Harmanci, Reyhan (12 May 2011). "'Go the F--- to Sleep': The Case of the Viral PDF". The Bay Citizen.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Dyson, Michael Eric; Daulatzai, Sohail (2010). Born to Use Mics. Basic Civitas Books. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-465-00211-5. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
- ↑ Mansbach, Adam (2008). The end of the Jews : a novel. New York: Spiegel & Grau. ISBN 0-385-52044-1.
- ↑ Harmanci, Reyhan (28 April 2011). "A Whim, A Book, And, Wow!". New York Times. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
- ↑ "The California Book Award Winners 1931-2006". Commonwealth Club of California. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
- ↑ "Father Figures KPFA Berkeley". Archived from the original on 17 May 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
- ↑ "Book Review: 'The Dead Run' by Adam Mansbach". Seattle PI. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
- ↑ "THE DEAD RUN (review)". Boston Globe. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
- ↑ "Book Review: 'The Dead Run' by Adam Mansbach". FearNet. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
- ↑ "Review: The Dead Run". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
- ↑ "Review: Dead Run". Booklist. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Adam Mansbach. |
- Adam Mansbach's website
- Down with fascist iPods - A Salon article by Mansbach.
- My Fake College Syllabus - A Salon article by Mansbach.
- Wake the F**k Up on YouTube - A political ad Mansbach wrote in the style of Go the Fuck to Sleep, performed by Samuel L. Jackson.