![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I’m always interested in figuring out and mastering the rules of different genres. “I didn’t go into this with any master plan,” he said when asked to explain his unusual career trajectory in a recent interview with J. In other words, he’s got range - serious f***ing range. In the years since the publication of “Go the Fuck to Sleep,” the father of three has written screenplays (including for the 2016 Netflix drama “Barry,” about a college-age Barack Obama, and the forthcoming “Super High,” a stoner superhero comedy to star Berkeley-raised Andy Samberg), Jewish-themed humor books, a graphic novel about a Florida alligator wrestler, an epic poem about mourning the death of his younger brother, and political ads for the Biden presidential campaign and other liberal causes, to name a few projects. These fake children’s books may be his claim to fame, but Mansbach is a more protean and prolific - and profoundly Jewish - writer than fans of those books may know. ![]() The book has sold more than 3 million copies to date and spawned two equally obscene sequels, “You Have to Fucking Eat” and “Fuck, Now There Are Two of You.” (A box set of all three comes out on Oct. Adam Mansbach is, and possibly always will be, best known as the “Go the Fuck to Sleep” guy.Ī decade ago, the Berkeley author rocked the publishing world with his genre-defying picture book for adults about the universal parental struggle of putting a young child to bed. ![]()
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