Pure Drivel

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| name = Pure Drivel

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| image = Puredrivelcov.jpg

| caption = First edition

| author = Steve Martin

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| genre = Short Stories

| publisher = Hyperion

| release_date = September 16, 1998

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| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)

| pages = 112 pp

| isbn = 0-7868-6467-2

| dewey= 814/.54 21

| congress= PS3563.A7293 P87 1998

| oclc= 39339256

| preceded_by = Picasso at the Lapin Agile (1996)

| followed_by = Shopgirl (2000)

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Pure Drivel is a collection of stories by Steve Martin, published in 1998, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker.

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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" | |