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RARA-AVIS: S.J.Perelman
At 09.35 24 April Duane Spurlock wrote:
>>Looking through the RARA-AVIS archives, I followed a thread about
hardboiled slang. To return briefly to that topic, I recommend an essay
by S.J. Perelman, "Somewhere a Roscoe...", an essay that originally ran,
I think, in the New Yorker. It's a wonderful and funny piece about
tough-guy and pulp slang and the joys of reading Dan Turner, Hollywood
Detective stories. Perelman was a funny, funny guy who wrote for the
Marx Brothers. The easiest place to locate this essay is an anthology
titled "The Most of S.J. Perelman."<<
Perelman also wrote a good spoof of hardboiled PI stories called _Farewell, My
Lovely Appetiser_.
Stephen
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