Steve Martin Writes the Written Word

“Filled with [Martin’s] singular characters and musings — Daniel Pecan Cambridge, a modern-day neurotic yearning to break free in The Pleasure of My Company, to the comedic and heartbreaking relationship between Neiman Marcus shopgirl Mirabelle and businessman Ray Porter in Shopgirl, to meditations on bad neighbors and so much more — this collection shows the breadth of Martin’s work, which is bolstered by a mix of brand-new and previously published selections of his writing for the New Yorker’s ‘Shouts & Murmurs’ column”–