The instant New York Times bestseller from author, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, a “heartfelt and hilarious” (USA TODAY) memoir about coming of age being a performer during the late 1990s while obsessively watching classic films at a legendary theater in LA. “[Oswalt provides] a couple of synapses such as a pinball machine and a prose design to match” (THE BRAND NEW York Instances).

Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction. It wasn’t drugs, alcohol, or sex: it was film..READING MORE about BIG SCREEN Fiend: Learning About Life from an Dependence on Film After moving to Los Angeles, Oswalt became a huge film buff (or while he calls it, a sprocket fiend), absorbing classics, cult strikes, and new produces at the well-known New Beverly Cinema. Silver screen celluloid became Patton’s lifestyle schoolbook, informing his notion of acting, writing, comedy, and romantic relationships.

Set in the nascent times of LA’s substitute 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. “Clever and readable…Oswalt’s encyclopedic knowledge and frothing enthusiasm for films (from sleek noir classics, to gory B movies, to cliché-riddled independents, to big unfilled blockbusters) is relentlessly present, whirring in the backdrop like a projector” (The Boston Globe). More than a memoir, that is “a like song towards the silver screen” (Paste Magazine).