Specifically for Seniors - A New Direction

A Trash-talking, Acid Wasted Golem is Revitalized in Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach


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Adam Mansbach is a novelist, screenwriter, cultural critic and humorist. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep, which has been translated into forty languages, named Time Magazine's 2011 "Thing of the Year," and sold over three million copies worldwide.

Mansbach's novels include Rage is Back, The End of the Jews (winner of the California Book Award), and Angry Black White Boy, which is taught at over a hundred schools and was adapted into a prize-winning stage play in 2008. and his most recet novel - The Golem of Brooklyn.

Adam's debut screenplay, for the 2016 Netflix Original BARRY, was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and an NAACP Image Award. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Believer, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, The Moth Storytelling Hour, and This American Life.

Adam and I talk about being multi-genre author, the rise of antisemitism, public figures and anti-semitism, Adam's book - The Golem of Brooklyn and why the Golem learns English from watchng Curb Your Enthusiasm and the danger of Elon Musk's ownership of a social media platfform and a whole bunch of satellites.And no podcast with Adam Mansbach would be compete without the back story of Go the F**k to Sleep.

Watch for Adam's commercial for the upcoming presidential election - he promised to do one at the end of the podcast.

This is one podcast you want to watch and share!

Link to The Golem of Brooklyn purchase on Amazonhttps://www.amazon.com/Golem-Brooklyn-Novel-Adam-Mansbach/dp/059372982X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ZPIDO5M5857J&keywords=the+golem+of+brooklyn&qid=1701025577&sprefix=the+goem+of+brooklyn%2Caps%2C86&sr=8-1

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