Leonard Pitt: My Brain is on Fire: Paris & Other Obsessions
Organization:
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM
Category:
Literary
Geographical Area:
Oakland
Start
Date:
3/30/2016
End Date:
3/30/2016
Start Time:
7:30 PM
End Time:
9:30 PM
Event
Info:
Leonard Pitt My Brain On Fire: Paris and Other Obsessions Hosted by Thomas Farber
My Brain On Fire is Leonard Pitt's story of growing up as a total misfit in Detroit in the 1940s and 50s. In a later age he would have been put on Ritalin and paraded before psychiatrists because he couldn't pay attention in school. In 1962, at the end of a misguided foray towards a career in advertising, he took the ultimate cure - a trip to Paris. There in the City of Light, Leonard's mind exploded. And it hasn't stopped since.
KIRKUS REVIEW: After dropping out of art school and working briefly for an ad agency, the author took the advice of a former teacher and followed his ambition to go to Paris and study mime with Etienne Decroux (the teacher of Marcel Marceau). Decroux's method stressed connectedness to the ground, yet other forms of movement, such as ballet, emphasized a separation from the Earth. Pitt's training allowed him to understand people in terms of their physical presence and, in particular, the light he saw "emanating from their bodies." What makes reading Pitt's book so enjoyable is not only following the intellectual leaps he makes between his many and varied topics of interest. It is also seeing the creative connections among apparently unrelated subjects... From start to finish, Pitt's memoir is a lively autodidactic romp through a life well-lived in both mind and body.
Leonard Pitt is an actor and author. He has written two books on Paris and he currently co-directs The Flying Actor Studio, a conservatory for the study of physical theater located in San Francisco.
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