Career
Mansbach wrote the "children"s book for adults" Go the Fuck to Sleep. Mansbach was the founding editor of the 1990s hip-hop journal Elementary. He lives in Berkeley, California and co-hosts a radio show, "Father Figures".
(The End of the Jews THE END OF THE JEWS BY Mansbach, Adam...)
The End of the Jews THE END OF THE JEWS BY Mansbach, Adam ( Author ) Mar-17-2009 THE END OF THE JEWS THE END OF THE JEWS BY MANSBACH, ADAM ( AUTHOR ) MAR-17-2009 By Mansbach, Adam ( Author )Mar-17-2009 Paperback
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003WRPD4Q/?tag=2022091-20
(Written in a lyrical, exhilarating, and intoxicating styl...)
Written in a lyrical, exhilarating, and intoxicating style that brilliantly evokes the moods and cadences of jazz and hip hop, Shackling Water is a book for lovers of both words and song. The novel follows talented young saxophonist Latif James-Pearson as he migrates from Boston to New York in hopes of apprenticing himself to his hero, Albert Van Horn. The center of Latif's universe soon becomes his room in a Harlem boarding house, where he spends his days alone, practicing intensely, and a downtown nightclub called Dutchman’s where Van Horn's group performs. There, Latif studies the musicians from afar, unwilling to meet Van Horn until he feels musically ready. It is at Dutchman's that Latif stumbles into another apprenticeship, this one to a charismatic drug dealer named Say Brother, and inadvertently comes under the wing of Van Horn's pianist, Sonny Burma. Latif also meets Mona, a white painter who is a regular at the club, and they begin a complex affair, which causes both of them to question their ideas about artistry, race, and love. As Latif drifts slowly toward the life of a hustler and away from that of a musician, Van Horn himself steps in and begins to mentor the young man, relating his own remarkable life story in the process. But even as Latif makes his way into his hero's inner circle, his frustration with his playing, the turn his relationship with Mona is taking, and the demands of hustling begin to take their toll. Desperate and in dire straits, Latif returns to Boston to seek the help of his mother, his first music teacher, and the crew of childhood friends he left behind. When tragedy spurs him to return to New York, Latif is forced to finally confront his music, Mona, and himself. An intricate, riveting, and original improvisation on classic themes, Shackling Water heralds the arrival of an important and beautiful new voice in American literature.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385502052/?tag=2022091-20
(The ruthlessly engrossing and beautifully rendered story ...)
The ruthlessly engrossing and beautifully rendered story of the Brodskys, a family of artists who realize, too late, one elemental truth: Creation’s necessary consequence is destruction. Each member of the mercurial clan in Adam Mansbach’s bold new novel faces the impossible choice between the people they love and the art that sustains them. Tristan Brodsky, sprung from the asphalt of the depression-era Bronx, goes on to become one of the swaggering Jewish geniuses who remakes American culture while slowly suffocating his poet wife, who harbors secrets of her own. Nina Hricek, a driven young Czech photographer escapes from behind the Iron Curtain with a group of black musicians only to find herself trapped yet again, this time in a doomed love affair. And finally, Tris Freedman, grandson of Tristan and lover of Nina, a graffiti artist and unanchored revolutionary, cannibalizes his family history to feed his muse. In the end, their stories converge and the survival of each requires the sacrifice of another. The End of the Jews offers all the rewards of the traditional family epic, but Mansbach’s irreverent wit and rich, kinetic prose shed new light on the genre. It runs on its own chronometer, somersaulting gracefully through time and space, interweaving the tales of these three protagonists who, separated by generation and geography, are leading parallel lives.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385520425/?tag=2022091-20
(This is hip hop that your teacher will finally admit is p...)
This is hip hop that your teacher will finally admit is poetry. Others have blended jazz and poetry before, but few more deftly than Mansbach. An account of growing up hip hop in NYC told through verse. That's right, verse. Picks up where Amiri Baraka and James Baldwin left off.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0966646959/?tag=2022091-20
Mansbach wrote the "children"s book for adults" Go the Fuck to Sleep. Mansbach was the founding editor of the 1990s hip-hop journal Elementary. He lives in Berkeley, California and co-hosts a radio show, "Father Figures".
(The End of the Jews THE END OF THE JEWS BY Mansbach, Adam...)
(Written in a lyrical, exhilarating, and intoxicating styl...)
(The ruthlessly engrossing and beautifully rendered story ...)
(This is hip hop that your teacher will finally admit is p...)