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PRINCIPAL WORKS

*Major Works of Short Fiction

Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge 1929

Parlor, Bedlam and Bath [with Quentin J. Reynolds] 1930

Strictly from Hunger 1937

Look Who's Talking! 1940

The Dream Department 1943

The Best of S. J. Perelman [republished as Crazy Like a

Fox, 1947] 1944

Keep It Crisp 1946

Acres and Pains 1947

Westward Ha! or, Around the World in Eighty Clichés 1947

Listen to the Mocking Bird 1949

The Swiss Family Perelman 1950

†A Child's Garden of Curses 1951

The Ill-Tempered Clavichord 1952

Hold That Christmas Tiger! 1954

Perelman's Home Companion: A Collector's Item (the Collector Being S. J. Perelman) of 36 Otherwise Unavailable Pieces by Himself 1955

The Road to Miltown; or, Under the Spreading Atrophy...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. The Saturday Review of Literature (review date 1937)
   2. Beatrice Sherman (review date 1943)
   3. Time (review date 1943)
   4. Eudora Welty (review date 1944)
   5. Thomas Sugrue (review date 1944)
   6. Russell Maloney (review date 1946)
   7. Harry Gilroy (review date 1949)
   8. The New York Times Book Review (review date 1950)
   9. Ted Robinson, Jr. (review date 1952)
   10. Herbert Kupferberg (review date 1955)
   11. Dorothy Parker (review date 1957)
   12. Walker Gibson (review date 1958)
   13. Eudora Welty (review dates 1958 and 1970)
   14. Michael Flanders (review date 1962)
   15. The Times Literary Supplement (review date 1962)
   16. S. J. Perelman with William Cole and George Plimpton (interview date 1963)
   17. Norris W. Yates (essay date 1964)
   18. The Times Literary Supplement (review date 1967)
   19. Richard Freedman (review date 1970)
   20. Roderick Nordell (review date 1970)
   21. Stefan Kanfer (review date 1970)
   22. Paul Theroux (review date 1976)
   23. Paul Theroux (review date 1977)
   24. Michael Wood (review date 1978)
   25. Barry Fantoni (review date 1978)
   26. Marshall Brickman (review date 1981)
   27. Terry Teachout (review date 1981)
   28. Wilfrid Sheed (review date 1981)
   29. Prudence Crowther (review date 1984)
   30. Steven H. Gale (essay date 1987)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright