And we get to profit from this! Leading up to a few events at the Just For Laughs Festival, Moshe Kasher will be reading from Kasher in the Rye at the Librairie D+Q this Friday, July 27th, at 7 pm!
Publishers Weekly described Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, a Mental Patient, and Then Turned Sixteen as a "memoir of high-octane intensity," saying that "although Kasher in print is not as funny as his hilarious stand-up routines, he writes with an imaginative flair and a razor-edge ferocity."
Now, I know we all like to really study up before a book launch, so check out this A.V. Club interview from earlier this year. I have a couple friends who are stand-up comics, and so some of what they talk about within the interview is familiar to me, but I honestly had never thought about whether the zeitgeist allows for sincerity in a time of so much irony, or how stand-up culture can be a fascinating reflection of contemporary society.
But finally, the real reason you should come on Friday is because, let's face it, authors aren't always performers, but stand-up-comics-turned-authors certainly friggin' are, and this promises to be a rollickin' good time.
See you here!
