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Otherppl with Brad Listi

610. Adam Mansbach

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2019

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Adam Mansbach is the guest. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the Fuck to Sleep, and has just published a new book called Fuck, Now There are Two of You. Go the F*ck to Sleep has been translated into forty languages, named Time Magazine's 2011 "Thing of the Year," and sold over three million copies worldwide. The 2014 sequel, You Have to Fucking Eat, is also a New York Times bestseller. Mansbach was recently nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and an NAACP Image Award for his screenplay Barry. The film premiered to rave reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it was acquired by Netflix and released as a Netflix Original on December 16, 2016. Mansbach's 2013 novel, Rage is Back, was named a Best Book of the Year by National Public Radio and the San Francisco Chronicle. Adapted for television by Mansbach and Danny Hoch, it is currently in development at USA as an hour-long drama. Mansbach's previous novels include The End of the Jews (2008) which won the California Book Award, and the cult classic Angry Black White Boy, or the Miscegenation of Macon Detornay (2005), which is taught at more than eighty schools and was adapted into a prize-winning stage play in 2008. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Believer, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, The Moth Storytelling Hour, and This American Life. He lives in Berkeley, California, and is a frequent lecturer on college campuses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, folks, the Other People podcast is offered freely.

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That's more than 600 episodes.

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All of it is free.

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slash other ppl pod.

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Tip your server. Patreon.com slash other ppl pod tip your server patreon.com slash other ppl pod thanks hello hello how are you this This is Brad Listy. This is The Other People podcast. I'm in Los Angeles. I have Adam Mann's Back on the program today. He published a book in 2011 called Go the Fuck to Sleep.

0:55.0

It's a children's book for adults.

0:57.2

It kind of created its own category.

0:59.8

It went viral.

1:01.5

It became a huge bestseller.

1:03.0

It sold all over the world.

1:04.6

He wrote it in like an hour.

1:07.7

I don't know.

1:08.2

It's like a crazy story.

1:09.7

And I'm sure you've probably heard of the book.

1:12.4

He has also published a handful of novels, including The End of the Jews, Rages Back, and Angry Black White Boy.

1:22.3

He also published this year a humor book with Alan Zweibel and Dave Barry called A Field Guide to the

1:28.9

Jewish People.

1:33.0

And so along with Go the Fuck to Sleep, he's published, You Have to Fucking Eat, and now he has

1:40.6

published Fuck, now there are two of you.

1:44.5

So he's got a lot going on.

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