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Aug 24, 2021 · He reads junk and good things interchangeably, and never forgets a single turn: Sax Rohmer’s absurd Fu Manchu stories, Elinor Glyn’s sensual over-excitements, and Edgar Rice Burroughs’s ...
Sidney Joseph Perelman (February 1, 1904 – October 17, 1979) was an American humorist and screenwriter. He is best known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for The New Yorker. He also wrote for several other magazines, including Judge, as well as books, scripts, and screenplays.
Mar 7, 2010 · Double Take. Eighty-Five From the Archive: S. J. Perelman. By Erin Overbey. March 7, 2010. This year is The New Yorker’s eighty-fifth anniversary. To celebrate, over eighty-five weekdays we...
Jun 22, 2020 · Parody, satire, and verbal wit characterize S. J. Perelman’s (February 1, 1904 – October 17, 1979) works. Most of them are very short and tend to begin as conversational essays that develop into narrative or mock dramatic episodes and sometimes return to essay.
Two of his most famous novels, The Palace of Dreams and The Pyramid, take place respectively during the Ottoman Empire and in ancient Egypt, while The Great Winter and The Concert clearly refer to Hoxha’s break with Russia under Khrushchev and with China after Mao’s death.
This volume of short essays – originally written for the New Yorker in the 1940s and 1950s but never before assembled – provides ample evidence that the great S.J. Perelman could misspend his...
Dec 25, 2021 · A collection of S. J. Perelman's writings, praised by literary and comedic legends from Kurt Vonnegut to Woody Allen, is available from the Library of America. On the life and writings of S. J. Perelman, the humorist who considered T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, and F. Scott Fitzgerald close-friends.
