Writings
Publication Information
New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Random House Inc., 2021.
Physical Description
xxi, 583 pages ; 21 cm
Contents
- Introduction: Perelman, the Pearl of Providence / Sketches and Satires. Puppets of passion: a throbbing story of youth's hot revolt against the conventions
- Those charming people: the latest report on the Weinbloom reptile expedition
- Scenario
- Strictly from hunger
- The love decoy: a story of youth in college today-awake, fearless, unashamed
- Waiting for Santy: a Christmas playlet
- Frou-frou, or the future of vertigo
- Captain future, block that kick!
- Midwinter facial trends
- Counter-revolution
- Beat me, post-impressionist Daddy
- A pox on you, mine goodly host
- Bend down, sister
- Beauty and the bee
- Button, button, who's got the blend?
- Swing out, sweet chariot
- A couple of quick ones: two portraits
- Hell in the Gabardines
- Farewell, my lovely appetizer
- Hit him again, he's sober
- Physician, steel thyself
- Take two parts sand, one part girl, and stir
- Sleepy-time extra
- Amo, Amas, Amat, Amamus, Amatis, enough!
- Send no money, honey
- Acres and pains: chapter one
- Acres and pains: chapter twelve
- Don't bring me Oscars (when it's shoesies that I need
- Rancors aweigh
- Mama don't want no rice
- Columbia, the crumb of the ocean
- Whenas in sulks my Julia goes
- Cloudland revisited: why, doctor, what big green eyes you have!
- Chewies the goat but flicks need hypo
- Salesman, spare that psyche
- The song is endless, but the malady lingers on
- A girl and a boy anthropoid were dancing
- Cloudland revisited: rock-a-bye, viscount, in the treetop
- Cloudland revisited: when to the sessions of sweet silent films
- No starch in the Dhoti, Sʹil vous plaît
- Cloudland revisited: the wickedest woman in Larchmont
- Swindle sheet with blueblood engrailed, arrant fibs rampant
- Cloudland revisited: I'm sorry I made me cry
- Sorry- no phone or mail orders
- Next week at the Prado: Frankie Goya plus monster cast
- You're my everything, plus city sales tax
- Eline Kleine Mothmusik
- Where do you work-a, John?
- Portrait of the artist as a young mime
- This is the forest primeval
- Impresario on the Lam
- Revulsion in the desert
- Are you decent, Memsahib?
- Tell me clear, parachutist dear, are you man or mouse?
- Sex and the single boy
- A soft answer turneth away royalties
- Hello, central, give me that jolly old pelf
- The sweet chick gone
- Nobody knows the rubble I've seen/nobody knows but croesus
- Three loves had I, in assorted flavors
- Be a cat's-paw! Lose big money!
- Moonstruck at sunset.
- The beauty part: a comedy in two acts
- The hindsight saga: three fragments from an autobiography. The Marx Brothers
- Nathanael West
- Dorothy Parker
- Selected letters. To Edmund Wilson (September 2, 1929)
- To I.J. Kapstein (October 9, 1930)
- To Groucho Marx (April 7, 1943)
- To Frances and Albert Hackett (August 14, 1949)
- To Abby Perelman (April 15, 1954)
- To Leila Hadley (August 21, 1955)
- To Leila Hadley (September 16, 1955)
- To Betsy Drake (September 28, 1955)
- To Leila Hadley (August 25, 1956)
- To Leila Hadley (November 22, 1956)
- To Paul Theroux (October 18, 1976)
- To Paul Theroux (December 24, 1976).