In this playful and wide-ranging conversation, Steve Martin and Adam Gopnik share the inspiration and process behind So Many Steves, their new "audio-biography" of Martin's dizzyingly multifaceted career. After writing Born Standing Up, Martin felt he had more to say, and this project fills in new details in an expansive, life-like format that was made to be heard. Building on a year's worth of Martin and Gopnik's many conversations, as well as archival audio and Martin's own original banjo score, So Many Steves digs into the many influences and evolutions that make Steve Martin such a singular creative force.
Here, Gopnik and Martin share advice for their younger selves, chat about the pressures of work in their daily lives, and discuss the sneakily highbrow nuances of Martin's career (the title of So Many Steves, by the way, is an e.e. cummings reference). Watch the video and then get your copy of So Many Steves on Audible now.
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. Martin met Gopnik three decades ago, and in that time, Gopnik has always marveled at Martin’s ability to flourish in a wide variety of art forms: 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.
