Adam Mansbach
Autor/a de Go the F**k to Sleep
Sobre l'autor
Adam Mansbach has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, Esquire, the Believer, and National Public Radio's All Things Considered. He is the author of Rage Is Back, Angry Black White Boy, The Dead Run, Go the F**k to Sleep, You Have to F**king Eat, and Seriously, Just Go to Sleep. His mostra'n més novel, The End of the Jews, won the California Book Award. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: from flickr user ferentz76
Sèrie
Obres de Adam Mansbach
A Fictional History of the United States : with Huge Chunks Missing (2006) — Editor; Col·laborador — 77 exemplars
A Field Guide to the Jewish People: Who They Are, Where They Come From, What to Feed Them...and Much More. Maybe Too… (2019) 41 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1976-07-01
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- USA
- Llocs de residència
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Professions
- professor
novelist
humorist
lecturer - Organitzacions
- Elementary (founding editor)
Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University
NewsOne.com - Premis i honors
- Future Aesthetics Artist Regrant
- Biografia breu
- Novelist Adam Mansbach is a visiting professor of fiction at Rutgers University. His most recent book was inspired by a Facebook rant about getting his then two-year-old daughter to go to sleep.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 22
- També de
- 3
- Membres
- 3,119
- Popularitat
- #8,194
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 268
- ISBN
- 134
- Llengües
- 11
My general goal is for around 10-15 percent of the books I read to be "Jewish" books, meaning books about Jewish history, religion, culture, or just books written by Jews that feel Jew-ish. I heard about The Golem of Brooklyn on a podcast; the author was super amusing and the way he described the book had me interested. Boy am I glad I ordered it.
TGoB is about a dude named Lenny who steals a bunch of clay from the rich-kid school he teaches at. He gets super stoned and makes a golem in the backyard of the garden apartment he lives in in Brooklyn. The golem comes to life (extremely agitated that he doesn't have a penis), but only speaks Yiddish; a language that Lenny doesn't speak or understand. While Lenny heads down to the local bodega to recruit the only Yiddish speaker he knows, his drug dealer shows up and the golem takes more acid that I've taken in my entire life. And I've taken a lot of acid. He then, while tripping balls, learns English by watching Curb Your Enthusiasm. Mayhem ensues.
The wonky threesome end up heading to the South to do some damage at a white supremacist rally, ala Charlottesville, in a van they stole from some Hassids. Their time together is hilarious, insightful, and touches on a lot of pertinent issues. Mansbach also takes breaks from the main story every couple chapters to teach us some Jewish history and other random tidbits.
I'm gonna be an Adam Mansbach Stan starting now, so if anyone wants to buy me any of his other books, please do. His humor, wit, and writing style are all top notch, and I'm left with no doubt that he's an anti-fascist… (més)