#49 - Masks of Happiness and of Success with Adam Mansbach

In today's episode, host Dr. Tarryn MacCarthy talks about something deep and one that weighs her heart heavily. Let this be a trigger warning before you listen to this episode as it talks about suicide and touches on depression. She is joined by a New York Times bestselling author, Adam Mansbach. This episode revolves heavily around Adam's new book: I Had a Brother Once. He shares the pain of living through his brother's death and having to wear masks to get through most days.

Adam Mansbach is a novelist, screenwriter, cultural critic, and humorist. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the Fuck 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. The two sequels, You Have to Fucking Eat and Fuck, Now There Are Two of You are also New York Times bestsellers. The audiobooks, narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, Bryan Cranston, and Larry David, are pretty fucking good as well. His memoir in verse, I Had A Brother Once, is a brilliant work about the struggle of wisdom in the face of a loss.

Find Adam and his books here: http://www.adammansbach.com/
I Had a Brother Once: A Poem, A Memoir

Show notes
[2:50] Talking about Adam's new book that's a memoirs inverse: I Had a Brother Once
[7:50] What is this book all about?
[8:24] Why did Adam write this book and why it took him long to do so
[14:25] Being carried through by the book
[18:01] How the book helped Adam since it got published
[25:58] On wearing a mask (figuratively)
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[32:36] When you take off the mask
[35:34] Depression is not unfamiliar
[36:41] Adam's advice for those who feel like they are wearing a mask
[40:04] The tricky things about suicide
[42:20] What's in Adam's future?
[45:44] Adam is writing another book
[48:58] Does Adam have a superpower, and what happiness means for him
[54:49] Where to find more of Adam?
[56:23] Adam's ONE nugget of wisdom
[59:43] Outro

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