Pure Drivel

by Martin, Steve

• ISBN13: 9780786885053
• ISBN10: 078688505X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-06
• Publisher: Hachette Books

Summary

Steve Martin's talent has always defied definition: an actor who's kept us riveted for over 25 years, a razor-sharp screenwriter, an acclaimed playwright. In this ingeniously funny collection of humorous riffs, those who thought Martin's gifts were confined to the screen will discover what readers of The New Yorker magazine already know: that Martin is a master of the written word.Hilariously funny and intelligent in their skewering of the topic at hand, the audiobook's pieces, some of which first appeared in The New Yorker, feature Martin at his finest.With a playwright's ear for dialogue, a sense of irony only Steve Martin could muster, and a first-class comic ability to perfectly time the punch line, Pure Drivel will have listeners crying with laughter, and marveling at the fact that in addition to all of his many talents, Steve Martin is also a superb writer.

Author Biography

Steve Martin is the author of the widely acclaimed play Picasso at the Lapin Agile and won praise for his work in the 1998 David Mamet film The Spanish Prisoner. In 1999, he wrote and starred with Eddie Murphy in the film Bowfinger.

Table of Contents

A Public Apology	p. 1
Writing Is Easy!	p. 5
Yes, in My Own Backyard	p. 13
Changes in the Memory after Fifty	p. 18
Mars Probe Finds Kittens	p. 22
Dear Amanda	p. 26
Times Roman Font Announces Shortage of Periods	p. 30
Schrodinger's Cat	p. 34
Taping My Friends	p. 38
The Nature of Matter and Its Antecedents	p. 42
The Sledgehammer: How It Works	p. 46
The Paparazzi of Plato	p. 50
Side Effects	p. 54
Artist Lost to Zoloft	p. 58
How I Joined Mensa	p. 62
Michael Jackson's Old Face	p. 67
In Search of the Wily Filipino	p. 70
Bad Dog	p. 74
Hissy Fit	p. 79
Drivel	p. 86
I Love Loosely	p. 90
Lolita at Fifty	p. 93
The Hundred Greatest Books That I've Read	p. 100
Closure	p. 106
The Y3K Bug	p. 109
A Word from the Words	p. 112
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