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Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film
Scribner
January 2015
On Sale: January 6, 2015
240 pages
ISBN: 1451673213
EAN: 9781451673210
Kindle: B00BSB2API
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
New York Times bestselling author, comedian, and
actor Patton Oswalt shares his entertaining memoir about
coming of age as a performer and writer in the late ’90s
while obsessively watching classic films at the legendary
New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles.
Between 1995 and
1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakeable addiction. It
wasn’t drugs, alcohol, or sex. It was film. After moving to
L.A., Oswalt became a huge film buff, absorbing classics and
new releases at least three nights a week at the New Beverly
Cinema. Silver screen celluloid became Patton’s life
schoolbook, informing his notions of acting, writing,
comedy, and relationships. Set in the nascent days of the
alternative comedy scene, Oswalt’s memoir chronicles his
journey from fledgling stand-up comedian to self-assured
sitcom actor, with the colorful New Beverly collective
supporting him all along the way.
Ideally timed for
awards season, when everyone’s mind is on Hollywood,
Silver Screen Fiend follows up on the terrific
reception of Oswalt’s New York Times bestselling
debut, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland. Already a beloved
fixture on the comedy stage, on television, and in film—not
to mention his 1.87 million Twitter followers—Oswalt
announces, with this second book, that he’s also here to
stay on the page.
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