Cloudland Revisited : a misspent youth in books and film /
"From October 1948 to October 1953, The New Yorker published humorist S. J. Perelman's "Cloudland Revisited" series: twenty-two reviews of once-popular books and silent films whose expiration dates had passed. All but forgotten even at the time, they were nonetheless part of Pere...
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New York, New York :
Library of America,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Adam Gopnik
- Into Your Tent I'll Creep
- Tuberoses and Tigers
- How Ruritanian Can You Get?
- Sodom in the Suburbs
- Lady, Play Your Endocrines
- Great Aches from Little Boudoirs Grow
- Antic Hey-Hey
- Why, Doctor, What Big Green Eyes You Have!
- Rock-a-Bye, Viscount, in the Treetop
- Four-and-Twenty Blackjacks
- Oh, Sing Again That Song of Venery
- When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Films . . .
- Roll on, Thou Deep and Dark Scenario, Roll
- Vintage Swine
- The Wickedest Woman in Larchmont
- I'm Sorry I Made Me Cry
- By the Waters of Razz-Ma-Tazz
- "M" Is for the Migraine That She Gave Me
- Mayfair Mama, Turn Your Damper Down
- Hungarian Goulash, with Battered Noodles
- It Takes Two to Tango, but Only One to Squirm
- Shades of Young Girls among the Flummery