THE BOOK

Everyone is invited to this journey back to a time when style, music and lust met the day-glo necklace, a pair of Z Cavarrici’s and Vuarnet Shades, In this parallel universe, tall girls slow danced with short boys at arms length suburban breakdance pioneers vied with Lionel Richie fanatics for dance floor space, your Aunt Edna came ready to mount an assault on the desert buffet in her best lime green polyester pant suit, and the phrase "the higher the hair, the closer to god" took on a whole new meaning.

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With special appearances from:
A.J. Jacobs, 99 Red Balloons, Ben Lee, Doug Herzog, The California Raisins, Jonathan Safran Foer, A well intentioned Burt Reynolds Impersonator, Jessi Klein, Joel Stein, Two Cousins from Pennsylvania in inappropriately short dresses, Sam Spiegel, Sarah Silverman, Mad Break dancing, Mark Ronson and Steve Fortgang, Southern Florida’s Number 1 Bar Mitzvah Band

Bar Mitzvah Disco is a full color coming of age story mired in one of the most awkward periods of life, a story of style that makes it look like the full length mirror was only invented in 1992, and a cultural history based on the fact that Bar Mitzvahs have saved more entertainment careers than the cabaret circuit in Branson, Missouri.

Photographs of Celebrity Impersonators, 1970’s DJ’s, and early suburban breakdancing pioneers vie with essays on music, style, and adolescence from writers as diverse as Jonathan Safran Foer, AJ Jacobs, Sarah Silverman, Joel Stein, Gideon Yago, Jessi Klein, DJ Mark Ronson, and Will & Grace creator, David Kohan.

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