Pure Drivel

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book |  | name = Pure Drivel | title_orig = | translator = | image = Puredrivelcov.jpg | caption = First edition | author = [[Steve Martin]] | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = [[Short Story|Short Stories]] | publisher = [[Hyperion (publisher)|Hyperion]] | release_date = September 16, 1998 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (hardback & paperback) | pages = 112 pp | isbn = 0-7868-6467-2 | dewey= 814/.54 21 | congress= PS3563.A7293 P87 1998 | oclc= 39339256 | preceded_by = [[Picasso at the Lapin Agile]] (1996) | followed_by = [[Shopgirl (novella)|Shopgirl]] (2000) }}

'''''Pure Drivel''''' is a collection of stories by [[Steve Martin]], [[1998 in literature|published in 1998]], many of which first appeared in ''[[The New Yorker]]''.

{| class="wikitable" |- ! Stories ! Original Publication ! Publication Date |- | "A Public Apology" | ''[[The New Yorker]]'' | November 17, 1997 |- | "Writing Is Easy!" | ''[[The New Yorker]]'' | June 24, 1996 |- | "Yes, In My Own Backyard" | ''[[The New Yorker]]'' | April 22, 1996 |- | "Changes in the Memory After Fifty" | ''[[The New Yorker]]'' | January 19, 1998 |- | "Mars Probe Finds Kitten" | ''[[The New York Times]]'' | July 10, 1997 |- | "Dear Amanda" | ''[[The New Yorker]]'' | February 16, 1998 |- | "Times Roman Font Announces Shortage of Periods" | ''[[The New Yorker]]'' | June 9, 1997 |- | "Schrödinger's Cat" | | |- | "Taping My Friends" | ''[[The New Yorker]]'' | February 23, 1998 |- | "The Nature of Matter and Its Antecedents" | ''[[The New York Times]]'' | March 2, 1997 |- | "The Sledgehammer: How It Works" | ''[[The New Yorker]]'' | July 27, 1998 |- | "The Paparazzi of Plato" | ''[[The New Yorker]]'' | September 22, 1997 |- | "Side Effects" | ''[[The New Yorker]]'' | April 13, 1998 |- | "Artist Lost to Zoloft" | | |- | "How I Joined Mensa" | ''[[The New Yorker]]'' | July 21, 1997 |- | "Michael Jackson's Old Face" | | |- | "In Search of the Wily Filipino" | ''[[The New Yorker]]'' | July 6, 1998 |- | "Bad Dog" | | |- | "Hissy Fit" | | |- | "Drivel" | ''[[The New Yorker]]'' | December 22, 1997 |- | "I Love Loosely" | | |- | "Lolita At Fifty" | | |- | "The Hundred Greatest Books That I've Read" | ''[[The New Yorker]]'' | |- | "Closure" | ''[[The New Yorker]]'' | February 15, 1999 |- | "The Y3K Bug" | ''[[The New Yorker]]'' | |- | "A Word from the Words" | | |}

==External links== * https://www.amazon.com/Pure-Drivel-Steve-Martin/dp/078688505X * https://www.audible.com/pd/Pure-Drivel-Audiobook/B002VA9N0K?srsltid=AfmBOoqaTOZ4RtAgDVk7keRkyPnMx_eQlmIgT6G9Fm835WCN2YzyUCES * https://www.amazon.com/Pure-Drivel-Steve-Martin/dp/0671043242 * https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/martin-drivel.html?_r=1&oref=login * https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780786879151 * https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10871.Pure_Drivel

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