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Born Standing Up

Born Standing Up
By Steve Martin
Hardcover, 299 pages ($25)

Martin’s unflinchingly personal memoir of his troubled childhood, early career and eventual trajectory to stand-up-comedy superstardom is a riveting, revealing read. It’ll make you see the “Wild and Crazy Guy” in a totally new light—one that gives fresh illumination to his act and engagingly unpacks the family tensions, anxiety attacks, career uncertainty, hypochondria, perfectionist streak and other baggage that trailed him to the top.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

first appeared: 2/3/2008

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