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...Shopgirl," the first work of longer fiction by comic-actor-writer Steve Martin, tells the story of Mirabelle Buttersfield, a shy young woman working behind a department-store glove counter, and the men in her life, especially Ray Porter, a wealthy entrepreneur in his 50s. TIME?s Richard Corliss talked with the novella-ist. Here are excerpts...
...TIME: "Shopgirl" is subtitled "A Novella." That?s a word that suggests both diminutive and old-fashioned...
...TIME: Most novels are past-tense stories: Once upon a time. "Shopgirl" is written in the present tense, like a movie script or an anecdote told...
...TIME: There is a phrase from the literary past, "shopgirl fiction...
...TIME: Not sure. But I am sure you?re familiar with "shopgirl movies" of the '30s and '40s: "Bachelor Mother" with Ginger Rogers, "Employees? Entrance" with Loretta Young, "The Devil and Miss Jones" with Jean Arthur and "The Women," where Joan Crawford plays a character very much like the rapacious Lisa in "Shopgirl...