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Subculture vulture : a memoir in six scenes / Moshe Kasher.

by Kasher, Moshe, author.

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New York : Random House, [2024]

Comedians -- United States -- Biography.

Subculture -- United States.

9780593231371 hardcover :

0593231376 hardcover

xii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

AA, or 10,000 days at a time -- Raves, or, notes from the underground -- Deafness, or, for whom the bell tolls unheard -- Burning man, or, staring at the bright lights -- The Jews, or, a drop in the river -- Comedy, or, funny over everything -- Epilogue.

"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 he's found himself in. Immediately after getting sober, Kasher began serving as the self-appointed sheriff of his Young People's 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, he's 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"--

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