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Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

Kasher, Moshe

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralHumorGeneral Drama

Publisher Price: $28.99

ISBN10: 0593231376
ISBN13: 9780593231371
Publisher: Random House
Published: Jan 30 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.41 Depth: 9.46
Language: English
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A hilarious (Dax Shepard), surprisingly emotional trip (The Chainsmokers) through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics Anonymous, by the writer and comedian Moshe Kasher

Part history lesson, part standup set and, often, part love letter . . . Kasher's ability to blend humor with homework works almost too well.--The New York Times

After bottoming out, being institutionalized, and getting sober all by the tender age of fifteen, Moshe Kasher found himself asking: What's next? Over the ensuing decades, he discovered the answer: a lot.

There was his time as a boy-king of Alcoholics Anonymous, a kind of pubescent proselytizer for other teens getting and staying sober. He was a rave promoter turned DJ turned sober ecstasy dealer in San Francisco's techno warehouse party scene of the 1990s. For fifteen years he worked as a psychedelic security guard at Burning Man, fishing hippies out of hidden chambers they'd constructed to try to sneak into the event. As a child of deaf parents, Kasher became deeply immersed in deaf culture and sign language interpretation, translating everything from end-of-life care to horny deaf clients' attempts to hire sex workers. He reconnects and tries to make peace with his ultra-Hasidic Jewish upbringing after the death of his father before finally settling into the comedy scene where he now makes his living.

Each of these scenes gets a gonzo historiographical rundown before Kasher enters the narrative and tells the story of the lives he has spent careening from one to the next. A razor-sharp, gut-wrenchingly funny, and surprisingly moving tour of some of the most wildly distinct subcultures a person can experience, Subculture Vulture deftly weaves together memoir and propulsive cultural history. It's a story of finding your people, over and over again, in different settings, and of knowing without a doubt that wherever you are is where you're supposed to be.

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