Leonard Pitt reads from his new book, My Brain on Fire: Paris and Other Obsessions (Softskull Press, $16.95).
This is Pitt's story of growing up a 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 calmed since.
Leonard Pitt 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 teaches classes in physical theater. He has performed and taught around the world and lives in Berkeley.
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