Catch 22

Milo Minderbinder in Afghanistan: Part 1

David Isenberg | Posted 05.18.2012

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David Isenberg

Milo Minderbinder is the war profiteer from Catch 22, "perhaps the best known of all fictional profiteers" in American lit. He was a parody of the American dream and a satire of the modern businessman. Kind of reminds you of the definition of a mercenary, doesn't it?

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Interview with Ben Fountain, Author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Teddy Wayne | Posted 04.30.2012

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Teddy Wayne

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk time-warps back to the excesses of the Bush administration in following the titular protagonist, and the seven surviving members of Bravo Squad, for one afternoon as they receive a heroes' welcome during the Dallas Cowboys' Thanksgiving Day football game.

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I Remember Joe Heller -- Part 3

Susan Braudy | Posted 05.05.2012

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Susan Braudy

I cornered Heller after class. An expression of fear widened his eyes after I insisted on accompanying him on the train back to Manhattan to interview him.

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I Remember Joe Heller -- Part 2

Susan Braudy | Posted 05.01.2012

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Susan Braudy

As an artist, he dared to write the unthinkable: that it's totally insane to be 22 years old and to see another soldier's half-digested lunch spill in a bloody mess out of his flak jacket after he'd been pulverized by a bomb.

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I Remember Joe Heller -- Part 1

Susan Braudy | Posted 04.30.2012

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Susan Braudy

In 1967, my life turned a sharp corner. I impulsively decided to audit Heller's playwriting seminar at Yale. His mordant new novel, Catch-22, was suddenly as relevant as Bob Dylan, whose music I would learn he loved.

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Iraq Veteran Reveals His Favorite Soldier Stories

| Posted 12.14.2011

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By Paul Rieckhoff for Bookish As the last American troops come home from Iraq, Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America,...

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Joseph Heller Was Not 'Hannibal Lecter Crossed With Mussolini'

Erica Heller | Posted 01.04.2012

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Erica Heller

My father was not Hannibal Lecter crossed with Mussolini, as a few have apparently thought I've depicted him in my book. His teasing sometimes hit the wrong note, but I think half the time he said things simply because they were too clever to suppress.

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'Catch-22' Editor Rereads The 50-Year-Old Book

AP | By HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 12.20.2011

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NEW YORK (The Associated Press) -- Fifty years after the publication of "Catch-22," author Joseph Heller is long dead and his editor has finally gotte...

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'Catch-22': The 50 Year Old Paradox Still Rings True

www.npr.org | Posted 12.13.2011

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Fifty years ago, a new phrase began to make its way into American conversations: "Catch-22." Joseph Heller's irreverent World War II novel — named f...

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Happy 50th Anniversary, Catch-22

Erica Heller | Posted 12.10.2011

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Erica Heller

The first time I saw Catch-22, I fell madly in love with it. I was only nine years old, and read about three pages before putting it down. Although I've tried many times to finish reading it, I'm only reading the whole book for the first time now.

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One-Hit Wonders Revisited: Happy Anniversary to The Last Picture Show

David Galenson | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Catch-22, Joseph Heller, J.D. Salinger, Peter Bogdanovich, One Hit Wonders, Gone With the Wind, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Last Picture Show, Arts News
David Galenson

All the artists mentioned here appear to have been conceptual innovators, and that their puzzling declines may be a result of the fact that age is not the friend of the conceptual imagination.

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Merry Christmas, And Please Pass The Hamantaschen

Erica Heller | Posted 11.29.2011

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Erica Heller

In retrospect, perhaps Catch-22 was our religion. It came with its own holidays, code of ethics and conduct, with joy and with tsouris, not tsimmis.

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The Catch-22 of Book Readings, The Taste of Mackerel

Erica Heller | Posted 11.23.2011

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Erica Heller

I prepared for my book reading the way I prepare for most new life experiences: I broke out in hives, didn't sleep for a week, misplaced the mascara, was limned in a perpetual clammy sweat, couldn't breathe and felt bizarrely seasick.

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The Waitress Who Traded Barbs With Joseph Heller

Erica Heller | Posted 10.31.2011

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Erica Heller

Listening to Dee and my father having a conversation was like snaring front seats at the Sarcasm Olympics, with barbs and ripostes flying back and forth over the table, whizzing past your stuffed derma like torpedoes.

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When Fame And My Father Met: Joseph Heller's Own Catch-22

Erica Heller | Posted 10.24.2011

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Erica Heller

I witnessed the spectacular transformation of my father, Joseph Heller, as he started to become a celebrity and a charmless believer in his own schtick.

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What's the Catch?

Jan Herman | Posted 09.24.2011

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Jan Herman

Just read the excerpt in Vanity Fair of the new Joseph Heller biography, and there's no mention of Nelson Algren.

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Why Do We Do This?

Michael Kaiser | Posted 09.17.2011

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Michael Kaiser

If we do not invest in our children's arts education, who will be our audience members, board members, donors and volunteers of the future? Are we working in a dying field?

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When friendship makes you feel like you're walking on eggshells

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Irene S. Levine

QUESTION Hi Irene, I haven't spoken to an old best friend for quite some time. I was the last one to initiate contact after the relationship had bec...

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Been Waiting For This Moment?

examiner.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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After a year of negotiations with the late Joseph Heller's literary agency, Simon & Schuster has released the ebook edition of Heller's more famous wo...

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Gen. Petraeus' Catch-22

Tom Andrews | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Andrews

The strategy that the military has determined is critical for its success is the very strategy that is rapidly eroding the chances for success.

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The Reel Meaning of Film

Alex Pattakos | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alex Pattakos

The Santa Fe Film Festival represents an important venue for both filmmakers and film audiences to experience the linkage between movies and meaning that otherwise might go unnoticed.

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What Do Hobbits, Robots, and Yahoos Have In Common?

Mark Peters | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Peters

Words come from everywhere. TV shows are productive -- look at "Battlestar Galactica's" "frak," Stephen Colbert's "truthiness," and "30 Rock's" "blurg...

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Navigating the maze to peace

Nicholas van Praag | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nicholas van Praag

This guest post was written by World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President Justin Yifu Lin and originally appeared on the World Development R...

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5 Literary Hook-Ups I'd Like to See

Caroline Hagood | Posted 05.25.2011

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Caroline Hagood

Which writers would you like to see get it on?

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The 12 Greatest Literary One-Hit Wonders (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Literature is full of prolific authors -- where would we be without Jane Austen and Charles Dickens? But maybe more fascinating are those authors that...

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