{"product_id":"s-j-perelman-writings-loa-346-9781598536928","title":"S. J. Perelman: Writings (Loa #346)","description":"\u003cb\u003eAdam Gopnik presents the very best of S. J. Perelman, America's zaniest humorist.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eS. J. Perelman (1904-1979) wrote for the Marx Brothers films \u003ci\u003eHorse Feathers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMonkey Business\u003c\/i\u003e and won an Oscar for his screenwriting on \u003ci\u003eAround the World in Eighty Days\u003c\/i\u003e, but he remains best known for his many sketches and essays penned for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e during its golden age of humor. In these short comic pieces--Perelman called them \u003ci\u003efeuilletons\u003c\/i\u003e--his penchant for wordplay, witticism, spoofery, self-deprecation, and plain zaniness are on full display. \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e once noted his ability in these magazine pieces to transform the common clich  or figure of speech into an exploding cigar. Author and \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e staff writer Adam Gopnik has selected the very best of them, including his 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlso included in this volume are the acclaimed play \u003ci\u003eThe Beauty Part\u003c\/i\u003e (1963) from Perelman's Broadway career; profiles of the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Parker, and his brother-in-law Nathanael West; a selection of letters written to correspondents such as Groucho Marx and Paul Theroux; and a garland of Perelman's witticisms strung together by Adam Gopnik.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781598536928\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 604","brand":"S. J. Perelman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40494066696373,"sku":"9781598536928","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e7f6623c-c796-4de3-ad4a-ccfedd106dce.jpg?v=1626157762","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/s-j-perelman-writings-loa-346-9781598536928","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}