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  1. Steve Martin
    Author: Martin, Steve
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

    "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... more

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    "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.""--...

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Kapsis, Robert E.
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781626740631; 1626740631
    Series: Literary conversation series
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    Subjects: Musicians; Authors, American; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
    Other subjects: Martin, Steve (1945-)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Includes index
  2. Conversations with Steve Martin
    Author: Kapsis, Robert E.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Collected interviews that provide insight into Martin's numerous accomplishments as a writer, artist, and original thinker over the last forty years. more

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    Collected interviews that provide insight into Martin's numerous accomplishments as a writer, artist, and original thinker over the last forty years.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781626740631
    Series: Literary Conversation Series
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (345 pages)
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  3. Conversations with Steve Martin
    Contributor: Kapsis, Robert E. (Publisher)
    Published: 2014; © 2014
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi

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    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Kapsis, Robert E. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781626740631
    Series: Literary Conversation Series
    Subjects: Authors, American; Musicians
    Other subjects: Martin, Steve (1945-)
    Scope: 1 online resource (345 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes index

    Description based on print version record