Landy, who helped Wilson recover from the addictions he struggled with in the 1970s – but later kept him in a fog for several years while limiting his contact with family and friends and charging him up to $35,000 a month – is a major character in this edition. It’s Wilson’s first real memoir, having disowned a title from 1991 completed while he was still under the “care” of psychotherapist Eugene Landy. 11, Random House Canada will release I Am Brian Wilson, written with Ben Greenman. As though the Brian Wilson were just another Wilson. He seems to have a familiar and mostly mundane relationship with his own mythology, as though watching a parade float in his likeness from the comfort of a recliner. That’s not to say he doesn’t understand the narrative his life has given rise to. Really, he’s plain-spoken, perceptive, and unconcerned with public relations. The myth of Brian Wilson is that of a man-child, too submerged in his own complicated genius for guile.
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