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Adam Mansbach
American
Author
Born:
Jul 1
,
1976
Me
People
Think
Time
World
You
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
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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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