Finding Fontainbleau & My Brain on Fire

Finding Fontainbleau: An American Boy in France & My Brain on Fire: Paris and Other Obsessions. Finding Fontainbleau This charming memoir recounts the adventures of Thad Carhart, his parents and siblings, in the provincial town of Fontainebleau, France, in the 1950s. My Brain on Fire: Paris and Other Obsessions. In 1962, after a misguided foray towards a career in advertising, Leonard Pitt took the ultimate cure– a trip to Paris. He stayed seven years. While performing and teaching, he studied the origins of the ballet, the history of early American popular music, the pre-Socratic philosophers, the European witch hunt, the history of Paris, and more.