Adam Mansbach
{{short description|American author (born 1976)}}
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Adam Mansbach (born July 1, 1976) is an American author. He has previously been a visiting professor of literature at Rutgers University-Camden, with their New Voices Visiting Writers program (2009–2011).
Biography
Mansbach graduated from Columbia College in 1998 and received a MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2000.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=14 June 2018|title="The Youngest in the Room," by Adam Mansbach '98|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/latest/lions-den/-youngest-room-mansbach-98|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624210219/https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/latest/lions-den/-youngest-room-mansbach-98 |archive-date=2018-06-24 |access-date=July 4, 2020|website=Columbia College Today}}
Mansbach wrote the "children's book for adults" Go the Fuck to Sleep, parodying bedtime stories.{{cite news|last=Harmanci|first=Reyhan|title='Go the F--- to Sleep': The Case of the Viral PDF|url=http://www.baycitizen.org/books/story/go-f-sleep-case-viral-pdf/|newspaper=The Bay Citizen|date=12 May 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020084505/https://www.baycitizen.org/news/books/go-f-sleep-case-viral-pdf/|archivedate=20 October 2014}} Other books Mansbach has written include Angry Black White Boy, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005,{{cite book|author1=Dyson, Michael Eric|author2=Daulatzai, Sohail|title=Born to Use Mics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xPLbK6ts2e4C&pg=PT170|accessdate=July 8, 2013|year=2010|publisher=Basic Civitas Books|isbn=978-0-465-00211-5|page=292}} and The End of the Jews{{cite book | last = Mansbach | first = Adam | title = The end of the Jews : a novel | publisher = Spiegel & Grau | location = New York | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0-385-52044-7 }} (for which he won the California Book Award for fiction in 2008).{{cite news|last=Harmanci|first=Reyhan|title=A Whim, A Book, And, Wow!|accessdate=13 May 2011|newspaper=New York Times|date=28 April 2011|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/us/29bcbart.html}}{{cite web|title=The California Book Award Winners 1931-2006 |url=http://www.commonwealthclub.org/sites/default/files/CABookAwardWinners_ByLastName.pdf |publisher=Commonwealth Club of California |accessdate=13 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926235116/http://www.commonwealthclub.org/sites/default/files/CABookAwardWinners_ByLastName.pdf |archivedate=26 September 2011 }} Mansbach was the founding editor of the 1990s hip-hop journal Elementary.
His book Stay the Fuck at Home (2020), was written to support awareness of coronavirus self-isolation measures; it has yet to be formally published. The book was read on Jimmy Kimmel Live by actor Samuel L. Jackson.{{cite news |last1=Parker |first1=Ryan |title=Samuel L. Jackson Reads 'Stay the F---' at Home' to Stress Isolation Amid Pandemic |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/samuel-l-jackson-reads-stay-fk-at-home-stress-isolation-pandemic-1287856 |accessdate=1 April 2020 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=1 April 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Kirkland |first1=Justin |title=Samuel L. Jackson Reading Stay the F**k at Home Is a Gentle Reminder to Stay the F**k At Home |url=https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a32005295/samuel-jackson-stay-the-fuck-at-home-video-jimmy-kimmel/ |accessdate=1 April 2020 |work=Esquire |publisher=Hearst Digital Media |date=1 April 2020}}
He lives in Berkeley, California and co-hosts a radio show, "Father Figures".{{cite web|title=Adam Mansbach's biography page|url=http://www.adammansbach.com/about.html |accessdate=26 January 2013| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110707082723/http://adammansbach.com/about.html| archivedate= 7 July 2011 | url-status= live}}{{cite web| title= Father Figures KPFA Berkeley| url= http://www.kpfa.org/short-run-series/father-figures| accessdate= 26 January 2013| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20120517183655/http://www.kpfa.org/short-run-series/father-figures| archivedate= 2012-05-17| url-status= dead}}
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){{cite web|title=Book Review: 'The Dead Run' by Adam Mansbach|date=26 September 2013 |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Book-Review-The-Dead-Run-by-Adam-Mansbach-4847144.php|publisher=Seattle PI|accessdate=20 November 2013}}{{cite web|title=THE DEAD RUN (review)|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2013/11/09/capsule-reviews-nostalgia-dennis-mcfarland-adam-daylight-gate-jeanette-winterson-cartwheel-jennifer-dubois-make-things-victoria-redel-mansbach-the-dead/kgLu120UnKEXdKxMKgefbI/story.html|publisher=Boston Globe|accessdate=20 November 2013}}{{cite web|title=Book Review: 'The Dead Run' by Adam Mansbach|url=http://www.fearnet.com/news/review/book-review-dead-run-adam-mansbach|publisher=FearNet|accessdate=20 November 2013}}{{dead link|date=May 2025}}{{cite web|title=Review: The Dead Run|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-219965-2|publisher=Publishers Weekly|accessdate=20 November 2013}}{{cite web|title=Review: Dead Run|url=http://www.booklistonline.com/The-Dead-Run-Adam-Mansbach/pid=6141172|publisher=Booklist|accessdate=20 November 2013}}{{dead link|date=May 2025}}
- The Golem of Brooklyn (2023)
=Poetry=
- I Had a Brother Once (2021)
=Humor=
- Go the Fuck to Sleep (2011)
- Seriously, Just Go To Sleep (2012)
- You Have to Fucking Eat (2014) {{ISBN|978-1617753787}}
- Seriously, You Have to Eat (2015)
- Fuck, Now There Are Two of You (2019)
- A Field Guide to the Jewish People, with Alan Zweibel and Dave Barry (2019)
=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)
=Screenplay=
- Barry (2016)
= Graphic novel =
- Nature Of The Beast: A Graphic Novel Written with Douglas Mcgowan; illustrated by Owen Brozman (2012){{Cite news|url=http://softskull.com/dd-product/nature-of-the-beast/|title=Nature of the Beast|date=2015-11-06|work=Soft Skull Press|access-date=2017-04-08|language=en-US}}
References
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External links
{{commons category|Adam Mansbach}}
- {{official website|http://www.adammansbach.com/|Adam Mansbach's website}}
- {{url|https://web.archive.org/web/20120613040225/https://www.salon.com/2012/06/13/down_with_fascist_ipods/singleton/|Down with fascist iPods}} - A Salon article by Mansbach.
- {{url|http://www.salon.com/2013/01/26/my_fake_college_syllabus/|My Fake College Syllabus}} - A Salon article by Mansbach.
- {{YouTube|og35U0d6WKY|Wake the F**k Up}} - A political ad Mansbach wrote in the style of Go the Fuck to Sleep, performed by Samuel L. Jackson.
- {{IMDb name|nm1217190}}
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