LEADER 02943nam 2200529 450 001 9910463681003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-62674-063-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000570545 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1820993 035 $a(OCoLC)893181910 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse38123 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1820993 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10951964 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL650371 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000570545 100 $a20141015h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aConversations with Steve Martin /$fedited by Robert E. Kapsis 210 1$aJackson, Mississippi :$cUniversity Press of Mississippi,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (345 pages) 225 1 $aLiterary Conversation Series 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-62846-113-6 311 $a1-322-19091-7 330 $a"Conversations with Steve Martin presents a collection of interviews and profiles that focus on Martin as a writer, artist, and original thinker over the course of more than four decades in show business. While those less familiar with his gull body of work may think of Martin as primarily the "wild and crazy guy" with an arrow through his head, this book makes the case that he is in fact one of our nation's most accomplished and varied artists. It shows the full range of Martin's creative work, tracing the source of his comic imagination from his early standup days, starting in the mid- to late 1960's through the films he has written and starred in, and emphasizing his more recent creative outpourings as playwright, essayist, novelist, memoirist, songwriter, composer, musician, and art critic. "Standup is the hardest material in the world to writer for someone else; it's like trying to condense ten years of experience into twenty minutes of new material," Martin says. But commenting on his fiction writing, he says, "I think you have to be able to find as a writer that state where your don't know what you're going to say or what the character is going to say or who the characters are. That's the biggest thrill of all. When you start to trust that subconscious thing and you don't censor yourself--just remember you can always throw it away--that's when the good stuff comes out.""--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aLiterary conversations series. 606 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vInterviews 606 $aMusicians$zUnited States$y20th century$vInterviews 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAuthors, American 615 0$aMusicians 676 $a813/.54 676 $aB 702 $aKapsis$b Robert E. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463681003321 996 $aConversations with Steve Martin$91952266 997 $aUNINA