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So Many Steves by Steve Martin and Adam Gopnik

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So Many Steves

Afternoons with Steve Martin

by Steve Martin and Adam Gopnik

Narrator Steve Martin and Adam Gopnik

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Length 2 hours 46 minutes

Language English

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Steve Martin is more candid than he’s ever been about his creative life—in this engrossing audio-biography centered around a series of conversations recorded over many afternoons at home with his friend and neighbor, writer Adam Gopnik.

Steve Martin met his good friend Adam Gopnik three decades ago, and in that time, Gopnik has always marveled at Martin’s ability to flourish in a wide variety of artforms: magic, comedy, art collecting, writing, and music. In So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik creates a new type of profile: a year’s worth of conversations with Martin where Gopnik pulls back the curtain on his friend’s illustrious career.

This audio-biography places you in Martin’s apartment across from Steve and Adam, listening as their conversation flows from Steve’s first job in a magic shop to selling out stadiums as a standup comedian, starring in major motion pictures, writing his first novel, teaching himself to play the banjo, and starting a respected art collection. Through it all you’ll hear clips from Steve Martin’s iconic stand up routines and movies as well as excerpts from his writing and tv appearances, all knit together by an original banjo score created and played by Steve.

Widely praised for his dada persona and portrayal of funny-yet-relatable parents, Steve shares behind the scenes anecdotes from his films―L.A. Story, The Jerk, Three Amigos, and more―giving listeners a taste of life on set. More than a history, this series of intimate conversations between old colleagues reveal Martin's thoughtful approach to both art and life. As Steve develops as an artist, challenging himself with learning new crafts, Adam sees his friend growing and evolving as a person: becoming warmer, more gregarious, and even more gracious.

With Adam’s tender audio-portrait of Steve Martin as an ever-progressing creator, and Martin's own insights into his career and life, So Many Steves shares new perspectives on the comedy legend.

STEVE MARTIN is one of today's most talented performers. His huge successes as a film actor include such credits as Roxanne, The Father of the Bride, Parenthood, and The Spanish Prisoner. He has won Emmys for his television writing and two Grammys for comedy albums. His work has earned him an Academy Award, five Grammy awards, an Emmy, the Mark Twain Award, and the Kennedy Center Honors. In addition to the bestselling Pure Drivel, he has written several plays, including Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Meteor Shower, and the Tony-nominated musical Bright Star. He is the author of the highly acclaimed novel, Shopgirl and the #1 New York Times-bestselling books A Wealth of Pigeons and Number is Walking (with New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss). His work appears in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Steve Martin is also an accomplished Grammy Award-winning, boundary-pushing bluegrass banjoist and composer. Martin co-created and stars in the hit comedy series, Only Murders in the Building

ADAM GOPNIK has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1986. During his tenure at the magazine, he has written fiction, humor, book reviews, profiles, and reported pieces from abroad. He was the magazine’s art critic from 1987 to 1995 and the Paris correspondent from 1995 to 2000. From 2000 to 2005, he wrote a journal about New York life. His books, ranging from essay collections about Paris and food to children’s novels, include Paris to the Moon, The King in the Window, Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York, Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life, The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food, Writer: Five Windows on the Season, At the Strangers’ Gate: Arrivals in New York, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism, and The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery. Gopnik has won three National Magazine Awards, for essays and for criticism, and also the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. In March of 2013, Gopnik was awarded the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. He lectures widely, and, in 2011, delivered the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Massey Lectures. His first musical, The Most Beautiful Room in New York, opened in 2017, at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven.