- the Joycean virtuoso performance "Scenario"
- "A Farewell to Omsk," Perelman's hilarious homage to Dostoevsky
- and "Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer," his side-splitting send-up of the hardboiled detective fiction of Raymond Chandler
Here is Perelman's own selection of the very best of his inimitable humor, restored to print for the first time in decades.