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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal. — Adam Mansbach

No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish. — Adam Mansbach

I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island. — Adam Mansbach

To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world. — Adam Mansbach

I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago. — Adam Mansbach

A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong. — Adam Mansbach

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

Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane. — Adam Mansbach

There's a lot of demand to hear the new Kanye West album before it hits the streets. There's much less demand to read the new Phillip Roth novel. — Adam Mansbach

It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert. — Adam Mansbach

My approach is to treat writing very much as a job. — Adam Mansbach

For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure. — Adam Mansbach

The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene. — Adam Mansbach

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing. — Adam Mansbach

One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams. — Adam Mansbach

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

I know you're not thirsty. That's bullshit. Stop lying. Lie the fuck down, my darling, and sleep. — Adam Mansbach

There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts. — Adam Mansbach

While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets. — Adam Mansbach

If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback. — Adam Mansbach

I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them. — Adam Mansbach

I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive. — Adam Mansbach

Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones. — Adam Mansbach

I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight. — Adam Mansbach

I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion. — Adam Mansbach

As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard. — Adam Mansbach

To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register. — Adam Mansbach

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

Eating is one of the great pleasures of life. — Adam Mansbach

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

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

If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about. — Adam Mansbach

America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron. — Adam Mansbach