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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

by Steve Martin

Scribner

November 2007, 224 pages, $25.00

by Levi Asher

The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

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Offers a fascinating glimpse of an odd brain doing its work, as well as an enjoyable sweep through America's pop culture past.

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