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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 ...
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.
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...
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.
Oct 29, 2021 · Library of America: By his own account S. J. Perelman was a practitioner of a literary form, the feuilleton, that may not be familiar to a lot of readers in the twenty-first century. Can you discuss the genre of the feuilleton and describe what Perelman brings to it that’s so unique?
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...
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Jul 19, 1981 · These bits of memoir, published for the first time in ''The Last Laugh,'' are the tailpiece to a collection of 17 of Perelman's comic sketches for The New Yorker. Even in its fragmentary state...
