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A Fictional History of the United States (with Huge Chunks Missing)

3 reviews

Akashic Books, 2006

Insights on history, irony and truths make for important reflections and insights.
A FICTIONAL HISTORY OF THE US WITH HUGE CHUNKS MISSING is a story collection and could've been featured in our literary section, but is reviewed here because any history buff will find it appealing and fun. Authors and cartoonists work together to provide a patchwork medley of original history, from the moon landing to McCarthyism and beyond. Insights on history, irony and truths make for ...

Angry Black White Boy: A Novel

17 reviews
Adam Mansbach

Three Rivers Press, 2005

Race relations needed this
I'm a teacher working in a predominantly urban environment, and in Macon I see so many of the kids in my school. I've recommended this book to every colleague who will stop long enough to hear me rave about it. Mansbach's words and characters (none of whom are given short shrift) got so deeply into my head that as the conclusion hit me, I was overcome and wept. I was truly disturbed by this book, ...

Shackling Water

4 reviews
Adam Mansbach

Anchor, 2003

A novel that sings
This stunning debut novel is a rocket ride fueled by the rhythms of jazz and hip-hop. But you don't have to know Coltrane from "Night Train" or hip-hop from doo-wop to appreciate the author's lyrical and powerful prose. The blurbs on the book jacket compare Adam Mansbach to everyone from Walt Whitman to James Baldwin; I would add the name of Jack Kerouac. Yet there is none of Kerouac's rambling ...

Illustrations from the Inside: The Beat Within
Louis Nevaer

Mark Batty Publisher, 2008

The Beat Within is a nation-wide writing program for incarcerated youth that is ten years old. "Words not Weapons" is the theme, getting young adults -- male and female, of all races -- to learn that the power of words and images is stronger than violence. While a couple of volumes of poetry generated by this program have been published, Illustrations from the Inside: The Beat Within focuses on the drawings that these kids do, almost entirely ...

Genius B-Boy Cynics Getting Weeded In the Garden of Delights

4 reviews
Adam Mansbach

New Mouth from the Dirty South/Garrett County, 2001

worth your while...
Adam Mansbach's debut poetry collection, genius b-boy cynics getting weeded in the garden of delights, gives us a glimpse at what overused terms like "hip hop poetry" should, but seldom do, refer to. Hip hop is only occasionally the subject matter of Mansbach's poetry -- alongside topics like race, family, consumerism, academia, love, jazz, popular culture and religion -- but a hip hop ...

The End of the Jews: A Novel

9 reviews
Adam Mansbach

Spiegel & Grau, 2008

Captivating
As a huge fan of Adam Mansbach's previous novel, Angry Black White Boy, I came to this book with high hopes, as well as certain expectations. My expectations turned out to be entirely wrong -- but I loved this novel. Mansbach's previous book is a satire about race in America, and it's savagely funny, fast-paced, and often chilling. The End of the Jews, while still interested in big issues like ...