Research Catalog

Title

Conversations with Steve Martin / edited by Robert E. Kapsis.

Author

Martin, Steve, 1945-

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

Kapsis, Robert E.

Description

xxviii, 316 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Conversations with Steve Martin presents a collection of interviews and profiles that focus on Martin as a writer, artist, and original thinker over the course of more than four decades in show business. While those less familiar with his gull body of work may think of Martin as primarily the "wild and crazy guy" with an arrow through his head, this book makes the case that he is in fact one of our nation's most accomplished and varied artists. It shows the full range of Martin's creative work, tracing the source of his comic imagination from his early standup days, starting in the mid- to late 1960s through the films he has written and starred in, and emphasizing his more recent creative outpourings as playwright, essayist, novelist, memoirist, songwriter, composer, musician, and art critic. "Standup is the hardest material in the world to writer for someone else; it's like trying to condense ten years of experience into twenty minutes of new material," Martin says. But commenting on his fiction writing, he says, "I think you have to be able to find as a writer that state where your don't know what you're going to say or what the character is going to say or who the characters are. That's the biggest thrill of all. When you start to trust that subconscious thing and you don't censor yourself--just remember you can always throw it away--that's when the good stuff comes out.""--

Series Statement

Literary conversations series

Uniform Title

Literary conversations series.

Subjects

• Martin, Steve, 1945-
• Authors, American > 20th century > Interviews
• Musicians > United States > 20th century > Interviews

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Hey!!! It's Steve Martin! / Tom Shales -- Beyond the best sellers: Steve Martin / Carol Lawson -- Carl Reiner and Steve Martin plan another film at Universal / Simar Hachem -- Steve Martin sings: the Rolling Stone interview / Ben Fong-Torres -- Steve Martin: a wild and serious guy / Dale Pollock -- Steve Martin revises Cyrano / Aljean Harmetz -- A side order of Steve Martin / Elaine Dutka -- Playboy interview: Steve Martin / David Sheff -- Steve Martin: the late period / Adam Gopnik -- Raw, salted, and roasted: what's on the table when Nora Ephron and Steve Martin get together? / Hilary de Vries -- Hotline to Hollywood / Richard E. Grant -- An interview with Steve Martin: thinking about life / Charlie Rose -- Not wild but witty repartee with Steve Martin and Harry Shearer / Harry Shearer -- Two brains? More like four, and counting / John Walsh -- Steve Martin: writer / Richard Stayton -- Steve Martin: the Rolling Stone interview / David Wild -- Writing Bowfinger: a talk with Steve Martin / Annie Nocenti -- The pleasure of his company: the writing world of Steve Martin / Jeff Zaleski -- Famous just right: Steve Martin / Meghan Daum -- Steve Martin on screenwriting, storytelling, and Shopgirl / John Spector -- Born standing up (excerpt) / Steve Martin -- Steve Martin: All about my father / Emma Brockes -- Steve Martin memoir recalls a past life / Terry Gross -- Steve Martin is serious about The Crow / Randy Lewis -- Actor and author Steve Martin on his book An object of beauty : a novel / Charlie Rose -- Steve Martin finds his muse in An object of beauty / Tony Cox -- The wild and crazy tweets of Steve Martin / Renee Montagne.

Call Number

JFE 14-7829

ISBN

• 9781628461138 (hardback)
• 1628461136 (hardback)
• 9781628461251 (paper)
• 162846125X (paper)
• 9781628461145 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014009129

OCLC

880521010

Author

Martin, Steve, 1945- interviewee.

Title

Conversations with Steve Martin / edited by Robert E. Kapsis.

Publisher

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Literary conversations series

Literary conversations series.

Added Author

Kapsis, Robert E., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Martin, Steve, 1945- Steve Martin Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014 9781628461145 (DLC) 2014020537

Research Call Number

JFE 14-7829