Introducing: So Many Steves, A New Audiobook from Steve Martin and Pushkin

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Today, we’re bringing you a preview of Pushkin's new audiobook, “So Many Steves.” 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. You can get “So Many Steves,” an audio-exclusive, now at Audible: http://audible.com/stevemartin

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0:00.0	Seven years ago, I was filming East London mosque when the story broke.
0:05.0	The three schoolgirls from the area had gone missing.
0:07.8	They were heading to Syria to join the Islamic State group.
0:11.5	Shamima Bagam was the only one of the girls to emerge from the ashes of the so-called
0:16.2	caliphate.
0:17.2	I've retraced her steps to investigate the truth of her story.
0:20.8	What do you think people think of you?
0:22.2	How's it dangerous or how's the risk?
0:23.9	The Shamima Bagam story, series two of I'm Not A Monster.
0:27.4	Listen.
0:28.4	Wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.4	Pushkin.
0:42.4	Hi, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, just kidding.
0:45.4	It's Steve Martin.
0:46.4	But like Malcolm, I love audiobooks so much so that I wanted to make one myself.
0:51.4	My audio original recorded with New Yorker writer and my longtime friend Adam Gottnick.
0:57.4	In it, you'll hear a series of conversations about my career in creative life, starting
1:02.4	with magic.
1:04.1	Get your copy of so many steves, afternoons with Steve Martin at Audible.
1:09.8	By the way, it's a new law and now I have to do this.
1:15.8	I don't like to, but it is a bylaw all comedians must make a financial disclosure.
1:22.1	This is a clip from Steve's second album, which was released in 1978 and was called A
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