Don't tread on me: the selected letters of S.J. Perelman.

The Nation | August 15, 1987| | Copyright

Josh Rubins is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. DON'T TREAD ON ME: The Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman. Edited by Pnedence Crowther. Viking. 372 pp. $19.95.

Don't Tread on Me is probably the perfect title-an echo with a difference-for this generous, if highly selective, gathering of S.J. Perelman letters. Treadupon indeed was the wary, infuriated Perelman-figure in innumerable stories and "casuals" and travel pieces, collected in such similarly well-named volumes as The Rising Gorge, Vinegar Puss, The Ill-Tempered Clavichord and The ...

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