"Captain Future, Block That Kick!," The New Yorker (20 January 1940) p. 23 http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1940/01/20/captain-future-block-that-kick <br class="br">Published in book form under the same title in The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) p. 71
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"Strictly from Hunger", The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) pp. 47-48
The Best of S. J. Perelman, Introduction (1947)
The Introduction was written under the name "Sidney Namlerep".
"The Idol's Eye", The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) p. 32.
"Captain Future, Block That Kick!", The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) p. 72
"Strictly from Hunger", The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) p. 47
The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) p. xii.
“I have Bright's disease and he has mine.”
A patient confronts his doctor, in a cartoon printed in Judge magazine (November 16, 1929)
Groucho Marx on Perelman’s Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge (1928), quoted in Dorothy Herrmann S. J. Perelman: A Life (1986) p. 61.
Criticism
“Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.”
The Rising Gorge (1961) p. 183
“The main obligation is to amuse yourself.”
As quoted in I Seem to be a Verb (Bantam Books, 1970), p. 62
“Before they made S J Perelman they broke the mold.”
The Best of S. J. Perelman, Introduction
"Strictly from Hunger", The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) p. 45
“Oh, son, I wish you hadn’t become a scenario writer!”
she sniffled.
"Aw, now, Moms," I comforted her, "it’s no worse than playing the piano in a call house."
"Strictly from Hunger", The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) p. 45
