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Aug. 21, 2011
Books
Book reviews: ‘Yossarian Slept Here’ and ‘Just One Catch’
Speed Vogel, who turned his friendship with novelist Joseph Heller into a bestselling memoir, “No Laughing Matter,” died April 14 of natural causes at his home in Sag Harbor, N.Y.
April 22, 2008
First there was the fish. Everyone else enjoyed it, but to Joseph Heller, it tasted tinny, metallic.
Feb. 10, 1986
In 1962, Joseph Heller took war to the surreal limits of its twisted, death-obsessed logic.
Oct. 16, 1994
Autumn is not expected to be this pleasant--neither the autumn of the year, nor the autumn of life.
Dec. 20, 1994
PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST, AS AN OLD MAN, by Joseph Heller, Simon & Schuster : $23, 224 pages
June 20, 2000
Any author who coined a word that embodies the existential dilemma of our world, who wrote a first novel that changed the way we regard one of our most hallowed national experiences and who anticipated and shaped the counterculture with his absurdist and iconoclastic sense of humor has surely earned the right to reminisce about his life and work.
Feb. 22, 1998
Hunched over a podium, his voice a stew of gravel and mashed potatoes--Joseph Heller surveys the packed synagogue with the look of the congenitally jocular.
Jan. 13, 1988
The New York Review of Books versus Salman Rushdie
Dec. 14, 2012