Adam Mansbach

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Adam Mansbach (2013)

Adam Mansbach (born July 1, 1976 ) is an American author and literature professor.

Life

Mansbach had since the 1990s editor of the hip-hop -Magazine Elementary and was a artistic adviser at the Center for Jazz Studies of Columbia University in New York City . He is a leading theorist on the subjects of hip-hop and aesthetics and appears today (2011) on television and with lectures on these subjects.

Since 2002 Mansbach has published a variety of essays and novels on various topics, published his poetry and was editor of a "Fictional History of the United States" together with T Cooper .

From 2009 to 2010, Mansbach was visiting professor of literature at Rutgers University , the State University of New Jersey . He lived in Berkeley , California in 2013 and was artist in residence at the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University .

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Shackling water. Knopf Doubleday, New York 2002, ISBN 0-385-50205-2 .
  • genius b-boy cynics getting weeded in the garden of delight. Subway & Elevated, New York 2005, ISBN 0-9666469-5-9 . (Poetry collection)
  • A True and Faithful Account of Mr. Oda Berga the Pygmy, Written by M. Berman, Zookeeper (1905). In: Adam Mansbach, T Cooper (Ed.): A Fictional History of the United States With Huge Chunks Missing. Akashik Books, New York 2006, ISBN 1-933354-02-X .
  • Angry Black White Boy. Crown Publishing Group, Random House, New York 2007 ISBN 1-4000-5487-7 .
  • The end of the Jews. Spiegel & Grau, Random House, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-385-52568-8 .
  • Go the fuck to sleep. Children's Book for Adults, 2011, ISBN 978-0-85786-266-2 .
    • German: Damn shit, go to sleep !. DuMont-Verlag, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8321-9658-5 . (with illustrations by Ricardo Cortés from the English by Jo Lendle )
  • The Dead Run . William Morrow / Harper Collins, New York City, New York, USA 2013, ISBN 978-0-062199676 .
  • Rage is back . Viking, New York City, USA 2013, ISBN 978-0-670026128 .
  • You Have to Fucking Eat , illustrated by Owen Brozman. 2014, ISBN 978-1-617753787 .
    • Fuck it, eat something! , translated by Stephan Kleiner. DuMont-Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-8321-9794-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Good night, damn it! In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . June 12, 2011, p. 29.
  2. ↑ Sleep, little child, sleep, your papa is a sheep in: FAZ from June 21, 2011, page 30
personal data
SURNAME Mansbach, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1976