Scott Bradfield

Reading pulp fiction taught me how to write, said S.J. Perelman

The great humourist ascribes his success to the hours he spent deep in the adventures of Tarzan and Fu Manchu – and watching lurid B movies in afternoon cinemas

S.J. Perelman as a young man. [Getty Images]
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  • Cloudland Revisited: A Misspent Youth in Books and Film

    S.J. Perelman

    Library of America, pp. 200, £15

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