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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kasher, Moshe, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kasher, Moshe.

Comedians--United States--Biography.

Subculture--United States.

Comedians.

Subculture.

United States.

Genre:

autobiographies (literary works)

Biographies

Autobiographies.

Anecdotes.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2024]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Kasher, Moshe. Subculture vulture

ISBN:

9780593231371

0593231376

OCLC:

1378099298