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2011 book by Adam Mansbach

Go the Fuck to Slumber
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Book cover
Writer Adam Mansbach
Illustrator Ricardo Cortés
State United States
Language English
Genre Children'southward literature, black comedy
Publisher Akashic Books

Publication engagement

 June 14, 2011 (2011-06-xiv)
Media type Hardcover
Pages 32
ISBN 978-ane-61775-025-0
Followed by Seriously, Just Go to Sleep
Y'all Have to Fucking Consume

Go the Fuck to Sleep is a book written past American writer Adam Mansbach and illustrated by Ricardo Cortés. Described equally a "children'due south book for adults",[ane] it reached No. one on Amazon.com'south bestseller list a calendar month before its release, thanks to an unintended viral marketing entrada during which booksellers forwarded PDF copies of the book by e-mail.

Groundwork [edit]

When Adam Mansbach'due south daughter, Vivien, was three years sometime, she would take upward to 4 hours to fall asleep. Exhausted and exasperated, ane night Mansbach posted a note on Facebook, "Look out for my forthcoming children'south book, Go the Fuck to Sleep". Following his post, friends of Mansbach responded enthusiastically, so that Mansbach began writing what was and so only a hypothetical book. Mansbach had the illustrations for the picture book washed by a friend, illustrator Ricardo Cortés (a contributor to The New York Times [2]), and approached Akashic Books, a book publisher from New York.[i]

Summary [edit]

Get the Fuck to Sleep is written as a "children's book for adults".[iii] While its writing is in the style of classic children'southward bedtime stories, it includes the parent's language as commentary on the tricks used past Mansbach'southward daughter to avoid having to become to bed.[4] The narrator advises the child that other animals have gone to sleep already including cats and lambs, and asks the child to "Please go the fuck to sleep".[5] As the pleading progresses, the narrator begins to abound more upset, decrying himself as a parent, and then eventually falling asleep himself. He wakes to notice his child asleep, then quietly exits to lookout man a movie with his spouse. Unfortunately, a beep from the microwave wakes up their kid again.

Publication history [edit]

Go the Fuck to Sleep was subject to an unintended viral marketing campaign after PDF copies of the book, presumably from advance copies sent to booksellers, were distributed via email. While the book was originally scheduled for release in October 2011, by the stop of Apr the volume had hitting No. 2 on Amazon.com's bestseller list,[i] and by May 12 the book was No. ane. In the meantime, the publishing engagement was moved up to June, and the publisher increased its start press to 150,000 copies.[6] Akashic, which acknowledged the importance of social media in popularizing the book ("it's a miracle from the heavens for us"[1]), is trying to prevent copyright infringement of the book. The volume's championship on the cover had the messages "uc" in the word "fuck" hidden past a full moon, while the book's text includes the full word.[3] The rights for the Britain and the Republic were acquired by Canongate.[2] The film rights have been optioned by Fox 2000.[iii]

The audiobook company Audible.com published an audiobook version of Become the Fuck to Sleep, narrated by Samuel Fifty. Jackson.[seven] The CD's full running time is just over 7 minutes, which includes an entire reading of the book by Jackson, a brief introductory monologue by Jackson explaining why he decided to record the book, and approximately 2 minutes' worth of introductory and legal matter (spoken copyright notice, etc.). The bodily reading of the manuscript past Jackson runs approximately iv+ ane⁄2 minutes.

As a follow-up, Mansbach wrote a family-friendly version of the book called Seriously, Just Go To Sleep.[viii] Whereas the original was a parody of a children's book written expressly for the adult age group, Seriously, Merely Go To Sleep is a existent children's volume for a parent to read to their child, and the word "fuck" was replaced past the parent in the story expressing frustration with the stubborn child in a more G-rated way. For case, "I know you lot're not thirsty, that'south bullshit. Stop lying. Lie the fuck downwards, my darling, and sleep" was inverse to "I know you're not thirsty. You just had a potable. Finish goofing around now, and sleep."[8]

The volume was translated into many other languages, and in Feb 2014, it was announced on Facebook and in other sources the book would receive a translation into Jamaican patois, entitled Go de Rass to Sleep.[ix] [ten]

Themes [edit]

According to Mansbach, the frustrations he wrote about "are not permissible to talk about. Nosotros're not completely honest because nosotros don't want to be bad parents."[half-dozen] Macy Halford said this frustration elicited a response peculiar to modern parents:

Whatever the cause, it is definitely the case that, when faced with a kid who refuses to go to slumber, we get annoyed, similar all parents before us, only, rather than simply abandoning the child to the dark and telling it that information technology can go to sleep or stay awake as it likes only it is staying in the bed until morning (remember Proust at the opening of Swann's Way?), we sit in that location with it, reading to it and singing to it and distracting it with swirling night lights until it decides it feels like going to sleep, all the while thinking to ourselves, Get the fuck to slumber, child.[5]

According to Mark Rotella, an editor at Publishers Weekly (and male parent of two), this is ane of the books "that are less earnest about raising your child. They help parents step back and express joy at themselves a flake ... It's more like a parenting book for when the parent is inconsolable in the center of night and frustrated."[half-dozen] The publisher for the U.k. and the Republic, Canongate, likewise pointed to the book equally a parents' book: "This book perfectly captures the familiar and unspoken tribulations of putting your child downwards for the night. In the procedure, it opens upwardly a chat about parenting, charming and enraging as information technology tin can be, and chimes a note of solidarity with tired parents everywhere."[two]

Reception [edit]

Positive initial response to the Facebook posts was matched past positive criticism from reviewers. Macy Halford, writing for The New Yorker, said "the book is super funny, and the fine art, by Ricardo Cortés, is perversely sweetness, so sweet and genuine that it made me blench".[5] Some of the reviewers chimed in from feel, every bit did Sarah Western Balzer, writing for Here Is the Urban center: "Information technology goes on a bit too long, and by the end, he's kind of in a rage. Merely then, putting a two- or iii-year-old to bed can be totally fucking enraging at times."[four]

In an award-winning essay,[11] the scholar Robin Bernstein analyzed the volume and its sequel, Seriously, Simply Get to Sleep, to argue that children's literature is a site of complex ability negotiations betwixt parents and children.[12]

The senior vice president and director of Macmillan Children'southward Publishing announced that she felt the book was a parody of Macmillan's book It's Time to Slumber, My Love past author Eric Metaxas and illustrator Nancy Tillman, saying "Except for the profanity laced throughout, the book has the same kind of lilting lullaby as Eric's, and the fine art fashion is the aforementioned every bit Nancy's."[xiii] Metaxas complained that the book damages the innocence of children's lullabies.[14] Mansbach responded that he was not familiar with the Macmillan volume and that his work satirized children'due south bedtime books in general rather than any particular volume.[xiii]

Go the Fuck to Sleep is 69th on the American Library Association's list of most ordinarily challenged books in the United States betwixt 2010 and 2019, a list compiled in 2020.[15]

Parodies [edit]

In July 2011, Men'south Health published a antiphon to the volume: a parody poem written from the kid's perspective titled "Get the Fuck Out of My Room" and containing parenting advice.[16]

MAD Magazine parodied the book as "Stay The Fuck Awake" in its February 2012 consequence, in reference to air traffic controllers sleeping on the job.[17] [18] [19]

In September 2012, Samuel L. Jackson parodied his audio narration of the book by appearing in an ad for Barack Obama's reelection campaign entitled "Wake the Fuck Up", written by Mansbach.[20]

Glory readings [edit]

Also every bit the audio volume read by Samuel L. Jackson, the volume attracted several celebrity readings including by German movie director Werner Herzog at the official launch of the book at the New York Public Library.[21] Kevin Pollak, doing a vocal impression of Christopher Walken, read some of the story on Kevin Pollak'due south Conversation Testify by viewer request.[22]

As part of a rapidly growing internet meme, the publisher of the book in Australia, Text Publishing, posted a video of Australian extra Noni Hazlehurst reading the volume to camera in the style she formerly used on the children's goggle box program Play School. She immediately offered to record a reading of the book afterwards being sent a copy by the publisher.[23] [24]

A Castilian audiobook narrated past George Lopez was released in 2011 by Penguin Audio.[25]

LeVar Burton (known every bit the former host of the children'southward television testify Reading Rainbow; equally Geordi LaForge on Star Trek The Next Generation; and as Kunta Kinte on Roots) read the book during a 2014 clemency live stream event held by the Rooster Teeth podcast.[26]

Histrion Jennifer Garner 'lovingly' read the volume for Vanity Off-white, which became popular on YouTube in March 2016.[27]

Cassandra Lee Morris used her vocal role of Morgana from Persona five to read the story in 2018.

Sequel [edit]

In September 2014, a sequel, You Have to Fucking Eat was announced, which was published that November.[28] Information technology is illustrated by Owen Brozman.[29] A tertiary book in the series, Fuck, Now There Are 2 of You, has been released on Oct 1, 2019.[30]

His book Stay the Fuck at Domicile (2020), was written to back up awareness of coronavirus affliction 2019 self-isolation measures; it has yet to be formally published. The book was read on Jimmy Kimmel Live by actor Samuel L. Jackson.[31] [32]

  • Go the Fuck to Sleep (2011)
  • Seriously, Just Go To Sleep (2012)
  • You Have to Fucking Eat (2014) ISBN 978-1617753787
    • Expurgation version: Seriously, You Have to Eat (2015)
  • Fuck, Now There Are Ii of You (2019)

See likewise [edit]

  • It's Only a Plant, a book written and illustrated past Cortés
  • I Don't Want To Blow You Upwards!, by Cortés

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Harmanci, Reyhan (April 28, 2011). "A Whim, A Volume, And, Wow!". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 28, 2014. Retrieved May 13, 2011.
  2. ^ a b c Neill, Graeme (May thirteen, 2011). "Spoof kids' book to Canongate". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on October 28, 2014. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  3. ^ a b c Harmanci, Reyhan (May 12, 2011). "'Go the F--- to Sleep': The Case of the Viral PDF". The Bay Citizen. Archived from the original on Oct 20, 2014. Retrieved May 13, 2011.
  4. ^ a b Balzer, Sarah Western (May 12, 2011). "Get The F*ck To Sleep (Review)". Hither is the City. Archived from the original on Oct vi, 2014. Retrieved May xiii, 2011.
  5. ^ a b c Halford, Macy (May 5, 2011). "The Mystery of Go the F to Sleep Solved". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on October 28, 2014. Retrieved May 13, 2011.
  6. ^ a b c Hetter, Katia (May 13, 2011). "Bedtime story: Go the bleep to sleep". CNN. Archived from the original on October 28, 2014. Retrieved May fourteen, 2011.
  7. ^ Netburn, Deborah (June 15, 2011). "Samuel L. Jackson reads 'Become the F --- to Slumber'". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on December 10, 2011. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  8. ^ a b Mansbach, Adam (2012). Seriously, Merely Go to Sleep. Akashic Books. ISBN978-1617750786.
  9. ^ Charles, Ron (February 11, 2014). "Hey mon: 'Become the F— to Slumber' gets a Jamaican patois translation". The Washington Post. p. Way Blog. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  10. ^ "Go de Rass to Sleep". Akashic Books. Akashicbooks.com. 2014. Archived from the original on March xviii, 2014. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  11. ^ ""MLA AWARDS WILLIAM RILEY PARKER PRIZE"" (PDF) . Retrieved December 28, 2021.
  12. ^ Bernstein, Robin (October 2020). ""'You Practice It!': Going-to-Bed Books and the Scripts of Children's Literature". PMLA. 135 (five): 877-894.
  13. ^ a b Social club, Sally (June eight, 2011). "To Feiwel and Friends, Instant Bestseller Is a Bit of Deja Vu". Publishers Weekly. PublishersWeekly.com. Archived from the original on December 27, 2011. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
  14. ^ Metaxas, Eric (June thirteen, 2011). "Hugh Hewitt Bear witness" (Interview). Interviewed by Hugh Hewitt.
  15. ^ Banned & Challenged Books (September ix, 2020). "Superlative 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010–2019". Part for Intellectual Liberty. American Library Clan. Retrieved May 4, 2021. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)
  16. ^ Eric Adams; Steve Belanger; Adam Campbell; Bill Phillips (July 2011). "Get the F**k out of my room!". Men's Health. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved Nov 13, 2011.
  17. ^ Richmond, Tom (December 12, 2011). "On the Stands: MAD #513". Tom's MAD Weblog!. tomrichmond.com. Archived from the original on October 28, 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
  18. ^ "MAD Magazine xx Dumbest Things of 2011: Sleeping Air Traffic Controllers in "Stay the F**k Awake"". The Huffington Mail. Huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2011. Archived from the original on January 27, 2012. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
  19. ^ "NTSB Investigating Sleeping Air Traffic Controller At Reagan National". The Huffington Post. Huffingtonpost.com. Associated Printing. March 23, 2011. Archived from the original on March 25, 2011. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
  20. ^ Blistein, Jon. "Samuel L. Jackson Delivers Colorful Become-Out-the-Vote Message". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on March 27, 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
  21. ^ Martin, Adam (June 15, 2011). "Werner Herzog Reads 'Become the F*ck to Sleep'". The Atlantic Wire. Archived from the original on Oct 28, 2014.
  22. ^ Pollak, Kevin (June 22, 2011). "Kevin Pollak reading a slice of "Become the F*** To Sleep" as Christopher Walken". Kevin Pollak's Chat Bear witness. YouTube (Official channel). Archived from the original on August 5, 2011. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
  23. ^ Quinn, Karl (July thirteen, 2011). "Noni Hazlehurst reads expletive-ridden 'children'southward' book". Sydney Forenoon Herald. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011.
  24. ^ "Get the F**k to Sleep". Text Publishing. Australia. July 13, 2011. Archived from the original on October 28, 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
  25. ^ OCLC (2011). "Duérmete, carajo! (Audiobook on CD, 2011)". Worldcat. OCLC 818315516.
  26. ^ Fahey, Mike (October 26, 2014). "LeVar Burton Reading Go The F**k To Slumber". Kotaku. Kotaku.com. Archived from the original on October 26, 2014. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
  27. ^ Shi, Diana (March ii, 2016). "Jennifer Garner lovingly reads 'Go the F*ck to Sleep'". Mashable . Retrieved March 3, 2016.
  28. ^ Flood, Alison (September 26, 2014). "Writer who put bad language into bedtime writes sweary sequel". The Guardian. Archived from the original on September 26, 2014. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
  29. ^ Pescovitz, David (September 24, 2014). "You Accept To Fucking Swallow (from the author of Go The Fuck To Slumber)". Boing Boing. Archived from the original on September 29, 2014. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
  30. ^ Mansbach, Adam (2019). Fuck, Now There are Ii of Yous. ISBN978-1617757600.
  31. ^ Parker, Ryan (April 1, 2020). "Samuel L. Jackson Reads 'Stay the F---' at Home' to Stress Isolation Amongst Pandemic". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved April ane, 2020.
  32. ^ Kirkland, Justin (April i, 2020). "Samuel L. Jackson Reading Stay the F**thou at Home Is a Gentle Reminder to Stay the F**grand At Home". Esquire. Hearst Digital Media. Retrieved Apr 1, 2020.

External links [edit]

  • Official website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_the_Fuck_to_Sleep

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