What is the name of a Steve Martin book where he explains how a Sledgehammer works?

Question

I think was a book of short stories, but I cannot remember the name

Wow, I am impressed of the speed of both you! Thanks!

Answer 1

I think you are looking for Steve Martin's "Pure drivel". Edited on 1998 by Hyperion

Answer 2

His elegant, S.J. Perelmanesque compositions --"after dinner mints to the big meal of literature," he calls them have appeared in the back pages of The New Yorker and The New York Times. And now about two dozen of them, including "Mars Probe Finds Kittens" and "The Sledgehammer: How It Works," have been collected in a giddy little volume titled Pure Drivel, published this month by Hyperion ($19.95).