I put it on Facebook: “Look out for my forthcoming children’s book Go the F*ck to Sleep.” It’s not like I got some mammoth response on Facebook I got the standard ten likes that you would get from any post that you would write in 2010. So I said I was going to write a children’s book called Go the F*ck to Sleep, and the three people there laughed. Trying to get them to do this one thing that seems so basic, and it’s necessary for their survival and you cannot convince them to do it. I was in her room for up to two hours trying to get her to go to sleep, and a certain kind of desperation and derangement starts to set in. My daughter was two years old at the time sleeping was not something she did readily.

We were shooting the shit waiting for him to come back, and I made a joke about how I was going to write a children’s book called Go the F*ck to Sleep. We were all waiting for this one guy who had borrowed a bicycle who had left in search of liquor and was coming back. We were in this Victorian house that had been lent to us by friends of the program. I was in Michigan with a bunch of poets that I was going to teach for a week in the summer.

The 2014 sequel, You Have to Fucking Eat, is also a New York Times bestseller.Īdam Mansbach: Go the F*ck to Sleep began essentially as a joke, like so many things do-in my world anyway.

Go the F*ck to Sleep has been translated into forty languages, named Time Magazine‘s 2011 “Thing of the Year,” and sold over three million copies worldwide. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the Fuck to Sleep, and has just published a new book called Fuck, Now There are Two of You.

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