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Adam Mansbach
Adam Mansbach
American Author
Born: Jul 1, 1976
Me People Think Time World You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read your kid 7,883 times, try adding 'dude' to the end of every line of dialogue. Adam Mansbach
You Weary Try Listening Every Adding Books Kid Find Over Soothing Read Dude Dialogue Line End Times Same Children Stories Crave Again Holiday Your Grown Routine
One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted. Adam Mansbach
You People Getting Older Circle Older Living Way Pleasures Enter Becomes Making Making A Living Been Getting Want Social Your Who
'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. Adam Mansbach
War History Conflict Book Date Taken Edition Commenced Place Which Forward Each Presented
I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight. Adam Mansbach
People Value Tell Ability Hip-Hop Came Up Where Straight
For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way. Adam Mansbach
Me Culture Way Secretive Definition Eccentric Writers Always Hip-Hop Were Any Fascinating
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. Adam Mansbach
Time You Yourself Partner Bit Kid Delayed Particularly Bed Get Goes Departure Maybe Being Frustrating Little Little Bit Your
Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal. Adam Mansbach
Whatever Bear Hip-Hop Going Influenced Seal Fundamentally Profoundly
Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the opposite of white privilege is working to dismantle that privilege. But my particular hip-hop generation proved to be very serious about figuring it all out and staying engaged. Adam Mansbach
Generation White Think Out All-Out Staying About Blackness Seemed Particular Course Hip-Hop Proved Opposite Very Privilege Dismantle Then Us Working Engaged Figuring Many Serious
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. Adam Mansbach
Time Me Wife Daughter Stupid Down Our Books Out About More Gives Point Write Puts Likes She Than Often Which Sleep
Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level. Adam Mansbach
Me World Humor Big Think Gives Take Part Big Part Artistic Being Literary Sensibility Certain Level Jewish
Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen. Adam Mansbach
Positive Best Sometimes Control Too Kids Eating Kitchen Habits Take Never Self-Confidence Instill Early
The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it. Adam Mansbach
History Genius Our Fingerprints Through Put Blend Over Commands Mock Us Skip Chop Vinyl Muse
Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing. Adam Mansbach
Nature Woman Space Face Human Nature Honestly Dancing Physical Faces Fact Democratic Dualism Surely Occupies Proud iPod Represent Representational Human In Fact Fascist Vinyl Fat Two
I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island. Adam Mansbach
Bathtub Located Would Would-Be Small Like Ideally Read Island Greek
A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home. Adam Mansbach
Home Uncle Ease Fussy Hassle Joe Nepal Kinds Foods Supply New Along Sure Cuisine Exotic Familiar Accustomed Chili Sampling Whether Holiday Little Flavors Mean Your Vacation Bringing Rejecting
The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing. Adam Mansbach
Funny Try Has-Been Entertaining Like Genres Pigeonholed Been Goal Get Different Different Genres Gonna Working Usual Thing
Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones. Adam Mansbach
People Mad Hop Writers Weird Most Geniuses Hip Hip-Hop Scientists Were Interesting Interesting People
The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene. Adam Mansbach
Heart Scene Beating New Were Trains York New York
The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant. Adam Mansbach
Love You World Problems Invent Approach Project Out Tell Constant Stay About Structural New Ideas Concerns How Aesthetic New World Being Different Story Certain Figuring Series Each Novelist Thing Set
My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true. Adam Mansbach
Saying Me Mother Interviews True She Learned Person Curse Really
For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure. Adam Mansbach
Financial Stress Pressure Relentless Demands Major Source Families Commercialism Whining Many
Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane. Adam Mansbach
People Few Else Strike Appropriate Ways Kids Parent Ultimately Very Few People Anybody Anybody Else Sane
When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent. Adam Mansbach
Parenting You Own Down Honing Out Critical About Parent Developing Disapproval How Want Sensibilities Sensibility Really Your Figuring Right
To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register. Adam Mansbach
Enter Isolate Sound Historical Register Moment Capture
Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound. Adam Mansbach
You Bass Solo See Record Only Look Sound Accommodate Density Closely Where Groove Grow
I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it. Adam Mansbach
Myself Book Every Say Promoted Weighed Tours Like Looks How Cover Hear Going Just Anybody Wants Whether Aspect Planned Things Copy
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