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Tag Archives: Shopgirl
What Mirabelle Needs Is Some Omniscient Voice
EXCERPT FROM Shopgirl, by Steve Martin the weekend It is 9 a.m., and for the second time that morning Mirabelle is awake. The first time was two hours earlier when Jeremy slipped out, giving her a kiss good-bye that was … Continue reading
Waiting for the omniscient voice
EXCERPT FROM Shopgirl by Steve Martin the weekend It is 9 a.m., and for the second time that morning Mirabelle is awake. The first time was two hours earlier when Jeremy slipped out, giving her a kiss good-bye that was … Continue reading
The Books: “Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life” (Steve Martin)
Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir: Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life, by Steve Martin If I had been in college in the late 70s as opposed to in grade school, I would have been a Steve Martin fanatic. As it … Continue reading
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Tagged Born Standing Up, E.E. Cummings, entertainment biography, Lewis Carroll, Shopgirl, Steve Martin
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The Books: “Shopgirl: A Novella” (Steve Martin)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Shopgirl: A Novella by Steve Martin I have great fondness for this lovely and piercing short book. Steve Martin, as a writer (his plays, his essays in The New Yorker, his stories) has always touched … Continue reading
Snapshots
— I have now graduated in my life to a higher thread count. I have been living for years with kinda scratchy low-thread-count sheets, because I never wanted to spend the money for the higher thread-count. But after rolling around … Continue reading