# Pure Drivel

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Pure Drivel First edition Author Steve Martin Language English Genre Short Stories Publisher Hyperion Publication date September 16, 1998 Publication place United States Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Pages 112 pp ISBN 0-7868-6467-2 OCLC 39339256 Dewey Decimal 814/.54 21 LC Class PS3563.A7293 P87 1998 Preceded by Picasso at the Lapin Agile (1996) Followed by Shopgirl (2000)

***Pure Drivel*** is a collection of stories by [Steve Martin](/source/Steve_Martin), [published in 1998](/source/1998_in_literature), many of which first appeared in *[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)*.

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.amazon.com/Pure-Drivel-Steve-Martin/dp/078688505X)

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- [https://www.amazon.com/Pure-Drivel-Steve-Martin/dp/0671043242](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://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/martin-drivel.html?_r=1&oref=login)

- [https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780786879151](https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780786879151)

- [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10871.Pure_Drivel](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10871.Pure_Drivel)

v t e Steve Martin Filmography Awards and nominations Albums Let's Get Small (1977) A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978) Comedy Is Not Pretty! (1979) The Steve Martin Brothers (1981) The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo (2009) Rare Bird Alert (2011) Love Has Come for You (2013) So Familiar (2015) The Long-Awaited Album (2017) Singles "King Tut" (1978) Books Cruel Shoes (1979) Pure Drivel (1998) Shopgirl (2000) The Pleasure of My Company (2003) Born Standing Up (2007) The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! (2007) Screenplays The Absent-Minded Waiter (short, 1977) The Jerk (1979) Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) The Man with Two Brains (1983) ¡Three Amigos! (1986) Roxanne (1987) L.A. Story (1991) A Simple Twist of Fate (1994) Bowfinger (1999) Shopgirl (2005) The Pink Panther (2006) Traitor (story only, 2008) The Pink Panther 2 (2009) Plays Picasso at the Lapin Agile (1993) The Underpants (2002) Bright Star (2014 musical) Meteor Shower (2016) Television The Winds of Whoopee (1983) Domestic Life (1984) Leo & Liz in Beverly Hills (1986) Only Murders in the Building (2021–present) Other Aspen Film Society Category

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