June 1981 Issue [American miscellany] Behind the hindsight saga Download PDF Adjust Share S.J. Perelman remembered by Paul Theroux, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Death Humorists, American S.J. (Sidney Joseph) Perelman More from Paul Theroux Two Lunches You’re seldom suspicious when you’re happy, and so I didn’t realize that the whole awful business was about to start when Vita said, “It’s been ages since you had lunch… Haleiwa, Hawaii When people in Hawaii first learned of North Korea’s latest threat — that it might soon launch a preemptive strike that could obliterate our lovely islands with a nuclear bomb… Our raccoon year Adjust Share