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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.

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  Adam Mansbach
Tags: Morning  Stupidity  Appreciate  Better 

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Adam Mansbach (born July 1, 1976) is an American author, and has previously been a visiting professor of literature at Rutgers University-Camden, with their New Voices Visiting Writers program (2009-2011).

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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.

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 Tags: Humor Me World Think Big I Think
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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.

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 Tags: Daughter Time Sleep Wife Stupid Me
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To be a white kid into hip-hop meant you'd sought it out and you practiced the art. Which meant dedication and diligence, as well as removing yourself at least occasionally from your own comfort zone and circumstances, and from people who looked like you.

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 Tags: Art Comfort Zone Yourself Dedication
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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

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 Tags: Hip-Hop Bear Going Whatever Seal
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.

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 Tags: Time Yourself Partner You Bed Kid
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.

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 Tags: Relationship Culture World Weird Way
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I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.

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

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