Subculture Vulture

<b>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</b><br><b> </b><br><b>Part history lesson part standup set and often part love letter . . . Kasher's ability to blend humor with homework works almost too well.--<i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/>After bottoming out being institutionalized and getting sober all by the tender age of fifteen Moshe Kasher found himself asking: What's next?<i> </i>Over the ensuing decades he discovered the answer: a lot. <p/>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. <p/>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.<i> </i>A razor-sharp gut-wrenchingly funny and surprisingly moving tour of some of the most wildly distinct subcultures a person can experience <i>Subculture Vulture </i>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.