Full name: The Rising Gorge: America's Master Humorist Takes on Everything from Monomania to Ernest Hemingway

Author: S. J. Perelman Year: 1942 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Humor Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140080414 0140080414

In these 34 incomparably funny essays, Perelman delves into "all important" questions, always landing with rare precision on an exposed nerve. A lacerating, satiric look at anything and everything. Similar books: What I'd Say to the Martians by Jack Handey Most of The Most of S. J. Perelman by S. J. Perelman Coyote V. Acme by Ian Frazier Lanterns & Lances by James Thurber The Beast in Me by James Thurber Crazy Like a Fox by S. J. Perelman Thurber Country by James Thurber Chips Off the Old Benchley by Robert Benchley Inside Benchley by Robert Benchley How I Got to Be Perfect by Jean Kerr Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz Fresh Lies by James Lileks Alarms and Diversions by James Thurber Ranting Again by Dennis Miller One-Upmanship by Stephen Potter The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett Straight Man by Richard Russo Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids by Rob Elliott Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper