Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

Moshe Kasher
4.10/5 (1789 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
A riotous, whirlwind tour through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics Anonymous, by the writer and comedian Moshe Kasher

After bottoming out, being institutionalized, and getting sober all by the tender age of fifteen, Moshe Kasher found himself “What’s next?” Over the ensuing decades, he discovered the 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.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
0593231376
ISBN13:
9780593231371
kindle Asin:
B0C3ZJRXJV

Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

Moshe Kasher
4.10/5 (1789 ratings)
Read Download
A riotous, whirlwind tour through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics Anonymous, by the writer and comedian Moshe Kasher

After bottoming out, being institutionalized, and getting sober all by the tender age of fifteen, Moshe Kasher found himself “What’s next?” Over the ensuing decades, he discovered the 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.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
0593231376
ISBN13:
9780593231371
kindle Asin:
B0C3ZJRXJV

More Books

Joyful Recollections of Trauma: A Hilariously Cathartic Memoir-in-Essays of Childhood Turmoil, Self Healing, and Finding Happiness

Paul Scheer

The World Deserves My Children

Natasha Leggero

T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People

Ian Karmel

Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again

Reggie Watts

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

Aparna Nancherla

Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV

Emily Nussbaum

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Maria Bamford

I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

Chelsea Devantez

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir

Neko Case

Lifeform

Jenny Slate

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley