NOTE: This is a PODCAST-ONLY program - the titles and contents of Adam Mansbach's books have NOT been bleeped!  

Adam Mansbach is a novelist, screenwriter, humorist, and cultural critic, as well as the author of the “children’s books” Go the F*** to Sleep and You Have to F***king Eat, and F***, Now There Are Two of You. His other books include Rage Is Back, The End of the Jews, and Angry Black White Boy.  His latest book - written as the child who did not want to go to sleep prepares to leave the nest - is Go the F*** to College.

Sociopolitical comedian  W. Kamau Bell is the host and executive producer of the CNN docu-series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell and author of The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6′ 4″, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian.

On May 12, 2026, the two came to the studios of KQED to discuss Mansbach's latest book - Go the F*** to College - written as his eldest child prepares to leave the nest.