Poetry. "Adam Mansbach is our generation's literary ambassador to jazz . . ."-William "Upiski" Wimsatt. Adam Mansbach is the founding editor of the award-winning hip hop journal Elementary and currently performs with both jazz and hip musicians. He is also the author of Shackling Water, a novel called "reminiscent of Baldwin's, Ellison's and Baraka's ways of creating new rhythms with new ways of dancing words and attitudes"-Robert G. O'Meally. ". . . still undeciphered by/ codecracking specialists// & that dusty pile of bam's/ party vinyl with the labels/ all steamed off// it's all in aisle seven/ of the same government warehouse// where Indiana jones/ dropped off the ark . . ."-from "notes from under sound."

Author City: PHILADELPHIA, PA USA

Adam Mansbach's novels include The End of the Jews, winner of the California Book Award, and the best-selling Angry Black White Boy, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005. He is the author of the #1 best seller GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP (Akashic Books, 2011) and the follow-up version for kids, SERIOUSLY, JUST GO TO SLEEP (Akashic Books, 2012). His fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Believer, Granta, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. He is the 2010-2011 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University. His daughter, Vivien, is three.