My Brain on Fire (eBook)

Leonard Pitt (Autor)

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2016
356 Seiten
Catapult (Verlag)
978-1-61902-767-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This is Leonard Pitt’s story of growing up the 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. He thought it would only be a visit. He stayed seven years. There in the City of Light, Leonard’s mind exploded. And it hasn’t stopped since.Studying mime with master Etienne Decroux and living in Paris were the university he never knew. This inspiration unleashed a voracious appetite to understand the why” of things. He asked a simple question, Why did the ballet go up?” While building a theatre career performing and teaching, he embarked on a quest to study the origins of the ballet, the history of early American popular music, the pre-Socratic philosophers, early modern science, the European witch hunt, the history of Paris, and more. To his unschooled mind it all fits together. Who would see a historical arc between Louis XIV and Elvis Presley? Leonard does. And he’ll tell you about it.

Autor

Leonard Pitt is an actor and author. He has written two books on Paris, Walks Through Lost Paris and Paris Postcards: The Golden Age, plus A Small Moment of Great Illumination. He currently codirects The Flying Actor Studio, a conservatory for the study of physical theater located in San Francisco. He has performed and taught around the world and lives in Berkeley, California.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Schlagworte: a small moment of great illumination • berkeley author • book about living in paris • book about paris culture • book about paris theater • book about theater • california author • california writer • detroit author • detroit writer • lenardpitt • leonard pit • leonard ptt • paris postcards • searching for valentine greatlakes the master healer • the goldenage • walks through lost paris
• ISBN-10: 1-61902-767-4 / 1619027674
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-767-1 / 9781619027671