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Doop Doop (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
I got this from someone's facebook and thought it was fun ... From Catch-22 by Joseph Heller: "Appleby retreated from Yossarian with a look of loathing bewilderment and sulked in silence until he was in the jeep with Havermeyer riding down the long, straight road to the briefing room, where Major Danby, the fidgeting group operations officer, was waiting to conduct the preliminary briefing with all...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
In a passionate tribute to her father's work, Erica Heller criticized Sarah Palin and Samuel Joseph "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher for shopping books. Dreaming about a simpler time for publishing in the Huffington Post , she described how Joseph Heller wrote Catch-22 over eight years--balancing a family and a full-time job at the same time. Her essay took a dig at spiraling advances as well, a popular...
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Asylum (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Many writers have one book which is much better known than anything else they have written, and which overshadows all their other work. Often, to me - say, with Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller or Evelyn Waugh - it’s the wrong book which is best known. Not so, though, with Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita [...]
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Bryan Appleyard (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
posted by Brit When Joseph Heller was accused of never having written anything else as good as Catch-22, his response was simply to shrug and say, "Who has?" Van Morrison could probably use the Heller defence for Astral Weeks. The old grump is performing what we are obliged to call his 'seminal' 1968 album in its entirety live at the Hollywood Bowl. Mind you, if anything is seminal, Astral
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
Most people would automatically assume it to be the brilliant kid from Harvard rather than the spooky, disingenuous, creaky-wheel from yesteryear. They would be wrong.
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NYtheatre.com (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
A stage version of Joseph Heller's novel presented by Aquila Theatre Company.—Pay only $22
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Divided We Stand, United We Fall (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
I was not going to bother, but the Powell and Adelman endorsements have apparently been declared by the blogging powers that be as a mandatory post for all political bloggers. I have no choice but to declare a "Yossarian" , as I have periodically done before. and paraphrase Joseph Heller's famous protagonist from Catch 22 - "What if everyone was blogging about the Powell endorsement?" I can only respond...
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Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
Playbill News: Lavelle Will Star in Aquila's Catch 22 Off-Broadway : "John Lavelle will star in the world premiere stage adaptation of Joseph Heller's American classic Catch 22 for the Aquila Theatre Company. Aquila artistic director Peter Meineck penned the stage adaptation of the novel. Performances will begin Nov. 14 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre Off-Broadway and will continue through Dec. 20....
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Boggartblog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
As the blip turns into recession and hurtles onward to depression all sorts of experts are predicting all sorts of consequences, job losses, home repossessions, bankruptcies and an increase in mental health problems. And of course the reappearance of Catch - 22 Joseph Heller’s Catch - 22 was one of my favourite books ever in fact I am rereading it at the moment. The title, Catch - 22 represents the...
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synful musings (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
14 Sept 2008 Disclaimer : I'm not a fan of movies older than me. I pick and choose what I see. " Catch-22 " - brain_o_shaner 's pick The summary: Mike Nichols superbly directs this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy about a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944. Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) tries to escape the travesties of World War II by convincing his Air...
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
I DECIDED a few months ago to return to the books of my school days. And having recently finished Joseph Heller's Catch 22, I cannot help comparing the madness that surro
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Slog (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Haaretz has an interesting story about how a brand new translation of Joseph Heller's Catch 22 has climbed to the top of the Hebrew bestseller lists. The book has sold 15,000 copies in 2 weeks . As an aside, a great Heller book that will probably never climb the Hebrew bestseller lists is God Knows , which is a first-person comic novel about the life of King David. There's sex and puns and lively,...
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
In Old title, new life in Haaretz Shiri Lev-Ari writes about the success of a new translation of Joseph heller's Catch-22 in Herbew.
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Hailed variously as the heir to the Kurt Vonnegut legacy, a Joseph Heller for the 21st century, and a Thomas Pynchon for the post-nuclear era, Nick Harkaway has garnered enough accolades since his recent authorial debut to turn a creative-writing MFA grad green with envy (if they weren’t already, thanks to his legacy: He’s the son of author John Le Carre). Harkaway’s first book, The Gone-Away World...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
"Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure."
