Swinging it
Mark Ford, 7 July 1988
S.J. Perelman: A Life
by Dorothy Herrmann.
Simon and Schuster, 337 pp., £14.95, November 1987,0 671 65460 8 Show More
by Dorothy Herrmann.
Simon and Schuster, 337 pp., £14.95, November 1987,
Don’t tread on me: The Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman
edited by Prudence Crowther.
Viking, 372 pp., £14.95, October 1987,0 670 81759 7 Show More
edited by Prudence Crowther.
Viking, 372 pp., £14.95, October 1987,
“... Of all the now vanished breed of New Yorker humorists – James Thurber, E.B. White, Dorothy Parker – S.J. Perelman wrote by far the richest, most meticulously crafted prose. His dedication to his art was almost frightening. He was once asked in an interview how many drafts each piece went through. ‘Thirty-seven,’ he replied ... ”
