Steve Martin writes the written word Collected written word works
Book - 2025
"Steve Martin Writes the Written Word is a perfect introduction for new fans and a must-have for longtime fans, showcasing the longevity, range, and -- above all -- hilarity of the master. Filled with his singular characters and musings -- Daniel Pecan Cambridge, a modern-day neurotic yearning to break free in The Pleasure of My Company, to the comedic and heartbreaking relationship between Neiman Marcus shopgirl Mirabelle and businessman Ray Porter in Shopgirl, to meditations on bad neighbors and so much more -- this collection shows the breadth of Martin's work, which is bolstered by a mix of brand-new and previously published selections of his writing for the New Yorker's "Shouts & Murmurs" column. A tantaliz...ing page-turner from start to finish that will appeal to a wide range of literary appetites, Steve Martin Writes the Written Word is a brilliant tour through a singular mind. " --
- Subjects
- Genres
- Humorous fiction
Essays
Short stories - Published
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New York :
Grand Central Publishing
2025.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First omnibus edition
- Item Description
- Some pieces previously published.
- Physical Description
- xi, 413 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9780306835735
- Introduction
- A Public Apology
- Writing Is Easy!
- Yes, in My Own Backyard
- Changes in the Memory After Fifty
- Mars Probe Finds Kittens
- Dear Amanda
- Times Roman Font Announces Shortage of Periods
- Schrodinger's Cat
- Catching Up on My Reading
- Shopgirl
- Bad Neighbor Schedule
- Taping My Friends
- The Nature of Matter and Its Antecedents
- The Sledgehammer: How It Works
- The Paparazzi of Plato
- Side Effects
- Artist Lost to Zoloft
- How I Joined Mensa
- Bad Dog
- An Author Responds
- The Pleasure of My Company
- Shouters
- Hissy Fit
- Drivel
- I Love Loosely
- The Hundred Greatest Books That I've Read
- Closure
- The Y3K Bug
- A Word from the Words
- About the Author