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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

Topics: Album Before Demand Hear Hits Kanye Kanye West Less Lot Much New Novel Read Streets West

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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: About Aesthetic Approach Being Certain Concerns Constant Different Each Figuring How Ideas Invent Love New New World Novelist Out Problems Project Series Set Stay Story Structural Tell Thing World You I Love

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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

Topics: About Both End Itself Jews Me Novel Oneself Pat Title Understanding Ways World

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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Avail Crumbling Ethnic False Family Feel How Looked Next Old People Refuse Religion Solidarity Structures Support Sustain Them You Yourself

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When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: About Ambiguous Ambivalent Bosom Come Comfortably Communities Community Discuss Else Every Excluded Feeling Fold Fully Margins More Person Seldom Someone Talk Unable Unwilling

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I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of subjects that I think people aren't entirely comfortable being honest about.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: About Anxiety Bad Being Being Honest Comfortable Entirely Honest Lot Parent People Seen Still Subjects Think I Think

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

~Adam Mansbach

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I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Buzz Coffee Coffee Shops Conversations Countries Distracted Humanity Languages Like People Shops Speak Spoken Surrounded Way Which Write You

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I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Alone Believe Evolve Introducing Language Like New Phrases Responsibility Responsible Shakespeare Something Whether Words Writers I Believe I Believe That

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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

Topics: Curse Interviews Learned Me Mother Person Really Saying She True

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 1st, 1976

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