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  • Cloudland Revisited

    A Misspent Youth in Books and Film

    Gathered for the first time: one of America's great humorists revisits the books and movies from his youth—often with some embarrassment—in this complete, 22-piece collectionFrom October 1948 to October 1953, The New Yorker published humorist S. J. Perelman’s “Cloudland Revisited” series: 22 reviews of once-popular books and silent films whose expiration dates had passed. All but forgotten even at ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Crazy Like a Fox

    The Classic Comedy Collection

    **A beloved classic returns: S. J. Perelman's own selection of the very best of his hilarious stories and sketchesPulitzer Prize–winning author Joshua Cohen (The Netanyahus) reintroduces America's zaniest humorist to a new generation of readers**When asked about himself the writer Sidney Joseph Perelman once quipped, "before they made him, they broke the mold." Nowhere is S. J. Perelman's one-of-a ... Read more

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  • S. J. Perelman: Writings (LOA #346)

    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 pieces- ... Read more

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  • Christmas at The New Yorker

    Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art

    From the pages of America’s most influential magazine come eight decades of holiday cheer—plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking—in one incomparable collection. Sublime and ridiculous, sentimental and searing, Christmas at The New Yorker is a gift of great writing and drawing by literary legends and laugh-out-loud cartoonists.Here are seasonal stories, poems, memoirs, and more, including ... Read more

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  • The Best of S. J. Perelman

    First published in the US in 1947. In this collection, Perelman puzzles over the nature of the secret chocolate blend in Hostess Cupcakes, captures the excesses of Russian prose style in a story about cigarettes, and ponders the question of our time: poisonous mushrooms--yes or no? This collection of humorous essays takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the author's quirky observations and ... Read more

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  • Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge. Illustrated

    S. J. Perelman’s Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge (1929) is a witty and inventive parody of popular romantic fiction and the melodramatic clichés of pulp magazines of its era. Written when Perelman was still a young humorist, the work already showcases the sharp satire, playful absurdity, and linguistic brilliance that would later make him one of America’s most celebrated humor writers and a frequent ... Read more

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