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Adam Gopnik presents the very best of S. J. Perelman, America's zaniest humorist.
S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) wrote for the Marx Brothers films
Horse Feathers
and
Monkey Business
and won an Oscar for his screenwriting on
Around the World in Eighty Days
, but he remains best known for his many sketches and essays penned for
The New Yorker
during its golden age of humor. In these short comic piecesPerelman called them
feuilletons
his penchant for wordplay, witticism, spoofery, self-deprecation, and plain zaniness are on full display.
The New York Times
once noted his ability in these magazine pieces "to transform the common cliché or figure of speech into an exploding cigar." Author and
New Yorker
staff writer Adam Gopnik has selected the very best of them, including Perelman's parodies of books and films, his biting social satire, autobiographical pieces, and a selection from the celebrated Cloudland Revisited series, in which Perelman reminisces nostalgically about books and movies encountered in youth before describing in his inimitable hyperkinetic style the rude shock of revisiting them as an adult.
Also included in this volume are the acclaimed play
The Beauty Part
(1963) from Perelman's Broadway career; profiles of the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Parker, and his brother-in-law Nathanael West; and a selection of letters written to correspondents such as Groucho Marx and Paul Theroux.
S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) wrote for the Marx Brothers films
Horse Feathers
and
Monkey Business
and won an Oscar for his screenwriting on
Around the World in Eighty Days
, but he remains best known for his many sketches and essays penned for
The New Yorker
during its golden age of humor. In these short comic piecesPerelman called them
feuilletons
his penchant for wordplay, witticism, spoofery, self-deprecation, and plain zaniness are on full display.
The New York Times
once noted his ability in these magazine pieces "to transform the common cliché or figure of speech into an exploding cigar." Author and
New Yorker
staff writer Adam Gopnik has selected the very best of them, including Perelman's parodies of books and films, his biting social satire, autobiographical pieces, and a selection from the celebrated Cloudland Revisited series, in which Perelman reminisces nostalgically about books and movies encountered in youth before describing in his inimitable hyperkinetic style the rude shock of revisiting them as an adult.
Also included in this volume are the acclaimed play
The Beauty Part
(1963) from Perelman's Broadway career; profiles of the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Parker, and his brother-in-law Nathanael West; and a selection of letters written to correspondents such as Groucho Marx and Paul Theroux.
Adam Gopnik presents the very best of S. J. Perelman, America's zaniest humorist.
S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) wrote for the Marx Brothers films
Horse Feathers
and
Monkey Business
and won an Oscar for his screenwriting on
Around the World in Eighty Days
, but he remains best known for his many sketches and essays penned for
The New Yorker
during its golden age of humor. In these short comic piecesPerelman called them
feuilletons
his penchant for wordplay, witticism, spoofery, self-deprecation, and plain zaniness are on full display.
The New York Times
once noted his ability in these magazine pieces "to transform the common cliché or figure of speech into an exploding cigar." Author and
New Yorker
staff writer Adam Gopnik has selected the very best of them, including Perelman's parodies of books and films, his biting social satire, autobiographical pieces, and a selection from the celebrated Cloudland Revisited series, in which Perelman reminisces nostalgically about books and movies encountered in youth before describing in his inimitable hyperkinetic style the rude shock of revisiting them as an adult.
Also included in this volume are the acclaimed play
The Beauty Part
(1963) from Perelman's Broadway career; profiles of the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Parker, and his brother-in-law Nathanael West; and a selection of letters written to correspondents such as Groucho Marx and Paul Theroux.
S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) wrote for the Marx Brothers films
Horse Feathers
and
Monkey Business
and won an Oscar for his screenwriting on
Around the World in Eighty Days
, but he remains best known for his many sketches and essays penned for
The New Yorker
during its golden age of humor. In these short comic piecesPerelman called them
feuilletons
his penchant for wordplay, witticism, spoofery, self-deprecation, and plain zaniness are on full display.
The New York Times
once noted his ability in these magazine pieces "to transform the common cliché or figure of speech into an exploding cigar." Author and
New Yorker
staff writer Adam Gopnik has selected the very best of them, including Perelman's parodies of books and films, his biting social satire, autobiographical pieces, and a selection from the celebrated Cloudland Revisited series, in which Perelman reminisces nostalgically about books and movies encountered in youth before describing in his inimitable hyperkinetic style the rude shock of revisiting them as an adult.
Also included in this volume are the acclaimed play
The Beauty Part
(1963) from Perelman's Broadway career; profiles of the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Parker, and his brother-in-law Nathanael West; and a selection of letters written to correspondents such as Groucho Marx and Paul Theroux.
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