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Subculture Vulture
Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes | Moshe Kasher
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A riotous, whirlwind tour through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics Anonymous, by the hilarious stand-up comic Moshe Kasher After bottoming out, being institutionalized, and getting sober all by the tender age of fifteen, Moshe Kasher found himself asking: OK, so what else is out there? Over the ensuing decades, he found his way to the answer: a lot. From his current vantage point as a successful stand-up comic, Kasher looks back on his years careening from subculture to subculture, and he immerses readers in the hilariously strange nuances of each of the scenes hes found himself in. Immediately after getting sober, Kasher began serving as the self-appointed sheriff of his Young Peoples AA group. He then went on to start his own club-promoting business from scratch in the heart of the 90s California rave scene, and later became a security guard at Burning Man. Once, he caught a man who worked as a coyote at the US border sneaking punk kids into the festival as a side hustle. A child of deaf adults, hes also served as a sign language interpreter, and once helped an angry client cuss out a police officer. Later in life, Kasher went on to reconnect with his Jewish heritage after the death of his father, and now has a booming career as a stand-up comic. Subculture Vulture is a sharp, insightful, and gut-wrenchingly funny tour of some of the most wildly different subcultures a person can experience. Deftly weaving together memoir and propulsive cultural analysis, Kasher takes readers on a guided expedition of otherwise impenetrable worlds. Its a story of finding your people, over and over again, in different settings, and knowing without a doubt that wherever you are is where youre supposed to be.
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This memoir is brilliant and one of my favorites this year so far. Kasher looks at his life from teen years on through the lens of six subcultures that shaped him. He writes about getting sober young at AA, his parents deafness and being a CODA, and his careers as a rave promoter/DJ, gate worker at Burning Man, and currently a comedian. He traces his Hasidic Jewish roots, too. Informative and funny with a surprising amount of heart!

Chelsea.Poole Not on my radar AT ALL! Off to find a copy 🏃‍♀️ Great review and thanks for the tag 😺 7mo
kezzlou85 Pretty flowers 💐 7mo
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Moshe Kasher wrote a funny and intelligent book that taught me way more than anticipated. I personally loved that a stand-up comic joked in his memoir that the most narcissistic thing a person can do is stand-up comedy, other than writing a memoir. I learned a lot about these subcultures and really appreciated Moshe's lessons. A fun book.

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