The instant New York Times bestseller from author, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, a heartfelt and hilarious (USA TODAY) memoir about coming of age as a performer during the late 1990s while obsessively watching classic films at a legendary theater in Los Angeles.
Set in the nascent days of LA\'s alternative comedy scene, Silver Screen Fiend chronicles Oswalt\'s journey from fledgling stand-up.
Silver Screen celluloid became Patton\'s Life schoolbook, informing his notion of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships.
After moving to Los Angeles, Oswalt became a huge Film buff (or as he calls it, a sprocket fiend), absorbing classics, cult hits, and new releases at the famous New Beverly Cinema.
It wasn\'t drugs, alcohol, or sex: it was film.
Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction. [Oswalt has] a set of synapses like a pinball machine and a prose style to match (The New York Times).
The instant New York Times bestseller from author, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, a heartfelt and hilarious (USA TODAY) memoir about coming of age as a performer during the late 1990s while obsessively watching classic films at a legendary theater in Los Angeles.
More than a memoir, this is a love song to the Silver Screen (Paste Magazine).
Clever and readable...
Oswalt\'s encyclopedic knowledge and frothing enthusiasm for films (from sleek noir classics, to gory B movies, to clich -riddled independents, to big empty blockbusters) is relentlessly present, whirring in the background like a projector (The Boston Globe).
Set in the nascent days of LA\'s alternative comedy scene, Silver Screen Fiend chronicles Oswalt\'s journey from fledgling stand-up comedian to self-assured sitcom actor, with the colorful New Beverly collective and a cast of now-notable young comedians supporting him all along the way.
Silver Screen celluloid became Patton\'s Life schoolbook, informing his notion of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships.
After moving to Los Angeles, Oswalt became a huge Film buff (or as he calls it, a sprocket fiend), absorbing classics, cult hits, and new releases at the famous New Beverly Cinema.
It wasn\'t drugs, alcohol, or sex: it was film.
Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction.
Oswalt has] a set of synapses like a pinball machine and a prose style to match (The New York Times).
The instant New York Times bestseller from author, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, a heartfelt and hilarious (USA TODAY) memoir about coming of age as a performer during the late 1990s while obsessively watching classic films at a legendary theater in Los Angeles
