Just One Catch (91 page)

“slightest but scariest”
: David Gates et al., “
Newsweek
's Best Novels of 2000,”
Newsweek,
December 28, 2000; posted at
newsweek.com/2000/12/27/newsweeks-best-novels-of-2000.html
.

“There is something bleakly bracing”
: “Briefly Noted,”
The New Yorker,
July 17, 2000, p. 81.

Heller's “vision” was “tragically in synch”
: John Grant, “Gangs with Guns: Milo Mindbender in Afghanistan,”
Counterpunch,
June 11–12, 2010; posted at
www.counterpunch.org/grant06112010.html
.

“Even when it's fouling its own nest”
: William Wiles, “What
Catch-22
Tells Us about the BP Spill,” posted at
www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2010/06/syndicate-milo-share-pension
.

“Heller is among the novelists of the last [few] decades who matter”
: Thomas Edwards,
The New York Review of Books,
April 5, 1979, p. 20.

“
[Catch-22]
still blows me away”
: Keith Staskiewicz, “Carl Hiaasen on Movie Adaptations, Dostoevsky, and Buying Historical Novels,” posted at
shelf-life.ew/com/2010/08/12/carl-hiaasen-star-siland
.

“Joseph Heller found”
: Adam Mars-Jones, review of
Matterhorn,
by Karl Marlantes, in
The Observer,
August 15, 2010; posted at
guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/15/matterhorn-karl-marlantes-vietnam-war
.

“Veterans of the Second World War”
: Jeffrey Toobin, “After Stevens,”
The New Yorker,
March 22, 2010, p. 43.

“[E]xactly who owns the rights”
: Mokoto Rich, “Legal Battles Over E-Book Rights to Older Books,”
The New York Times,
December 13, 2009; posted at
nytimes.com/2009/12/13/business/media/13ebooks.html
.

“9/11 … Saddam Hussein's hanging”
: Christopher Buckley, “Catch-2009,”
New York Times,
December 12, 2009; posted at
nytimes.com/2009/12/12/opinion/12buckley.html
.

“In the early 1980s, I was cleaning houses”
: Margaret Dawe in an e-mail to the author, July 10, 2009.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

FICTION BY JOSEPH HELLER

Catch-22.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961.

Something Happened.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

Good as Gold.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.

God Knows.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.

Picture This.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988.

Closing Time.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Catch as Catch Can: The Collected Stories and Other Writings.
Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Park Bucker. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

MEMOIRS BY JOSEPH HELLER

No Laughing Matter,
coauthored with Speed Vogel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

PLAYS BY JOSEPH HELLER

We Bombed in New Haven.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968.

Catch-22: A Dramatization.
New York: Samuel French, 1971.

Clevinger's Trial.
New York: Samuel French, 1973.

MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAYS BY JOSEPH HELLER

Sex and the Single Girl,
with David R. Schwartz. Warner Bros., 1964.

Casino Royale
(uncredited). Columbia Pictures, 1967.

Dirty Dingus Magee,
with Tom Waldman and Frank Waldman. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1970.

INTERVIEWS WITH JOSEPH HELLER

Sorkin, Adam J., ed.
Conversations with Joseph Heller.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.

UNCOLLECTED PROSE BY JOSEPH HELLER

“Too Timid to Damn, Too Stingy to Applaud.”
New Republic
, July 1962, 23–24, 36.

“How I Found James Bond.”
Holiday,
June 1967, 123–25.

BOOKS ABOUT JOSEPH HELLER

Bloom, Harold, ed.
Joseph Heller's Catch-22.
Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2001.

Craig, David M.
Tilting at Mortality: Narrative Strategies in Joseph Heller's Fiction.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997.

Kiley, Frederick, and Walter McDonald, eds.
A “Catch-22” Casebook.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1973.

Merrill, Robert.
Joseph Heller.
Boston: Twayne, 1987.

Nagel, James, ed.
Critical Essays on ‘Catch-22.'
Encino, California: Dickenson, 1974.

———, ed.
Critical Essays on Joseph Heller.
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984.

Pinsker, Sanford.
Understanding Joseph Heller.
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.

Potts, Stephen W.
From Here to Absurdity: The Moral Battlefields of Joseph Heller.
San Bernardino, California: Borgo Press, 1995.

Ruderman, Judith.
Joseph Heller.
New York: Continuum, 1991.

Scotto, Robert M., ed.
Joseph Heller's Catch-22: A Critical Edition.
New York: Delta, 1973.

Seed, David.
The Fiction of Joseph Heller: Against the Grain.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.

Woodson, Jon.
A Study of Catch-22: Going Around Twice.
New York: Peter Lang, 2001.

ONLINE

Setzer, Daniel. “Historical Sources for the Events in Joseph Heller's Novel,
Catch-22.
home.comcast.net/~dhsetzer
.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ARTICLES

Bruccoli, Matthew J., and Park Bucker, eds.
Joseph Heller: A Descriptive Bibliography.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002.

Eller, Jonathan R. “Catching a Market: The Publishing History of
Catch-22.
”
Prospects
17 (1992): 475–525.

Keegan, Brenda M.
Joseph Heller: A Reference Guide.
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.

Scotto, Robert M.
Three Contemporary Novelists: An Annotated Bibliography of Works by and about John Hawkes, Joseph Heller, and Thomas Pynchon.
New York: Garland, 1977.

Weixmann, Joseph. “A Bibliography of Joseph Heller's
Catch-22.
”
Bulletins of Bibliography
31 (1974): 32–37.

SELECTED CRITICAL BOOKS WITH SECTIONS OR CHAPTERS ON JOSEPH HELLER

Aichinger, Peter.
The American Soldier in Fiction, 1880–1963.
Des Moines: Iowa State University Press, 1975.

Bier, Jesse.
The Rise and Fall of American Humor.
New York: Henry Holt, 1968.

Bryant, Jerry H.
The Open Decision: The Contemporary American Novel and Its Intellectual Background.
New York: Free Press, 1970.

Burgess, Anthony.
The Novel Now: A Guide to Contemporary Fiction.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1967.

Dickstein, Morris.
Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945–1970.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Harris, Charles B.
Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd.
New Haven: College and University Press, 1971.

Hauck, Richard Boyd.
A Cheerful Nihilism: Confidence and the Absurd in American Humorous Fiction.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971.

Karl, Frederick.
American Fictions 1940–1980.
New York: Harper & Row, 1983.

Kazin, Alfred.
Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.

Kostelanetz, Richard, ed.
On Contemporary Literature.
New York: Avon, 1964.

Miller, Wayne Charles.
An Armed America, Its Face in Fiction: A History of the American Military Novel.
New York: New York University Press, 1970.

Moore, Harry T., ed.
Contemporary American Novelists.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965.

Olderman, Raymond M.
Beyond the Waste Land: The American Novel in the 1960's.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.

Podhoretz, Norman.
Doings and Undoings: The Fifties and After in American Writing.
New York: Farrar, Straus, 1964.

Richter, D. H.
Fable's End: Completeness and Closure in Rhetorical Fiction.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Scott, Nathan A., ed.
Adversity and Grace: Studies in Recent American Literature.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

Tanner, Tony.
City of Words: American Fiction, 1950–1970.
New York: Harper & Row, 1971.

SELECTED CRITICAL ARTICLES ON JOSEPH HELLER

Aldridge, John W. “The Deceits of Black Humor.”
Harpers,
March 1979, 115–18.

Aubrey, James R. “Heller's ‘Parody on Hemingway' in
Catch-22.
”
Studies in Contemporary Satire
17 (1990): 1–5.

———. “Major –de Coverly's Name in
Catch-22.
”
Notes on Contemporary Literature
18, no. 1 (1988): 2–3.

Beidler, Philip. “Mr. Roberts and American Remembering; or, Why Major Major Major Major Looks Like Henry Fonda.”
Journal of American Studies
30, no. 1 (1996): 47.

Bertonneau, Thomas F. “The Mind Bound Round: Language and Reality in Heller's
Catch-22.
”
Studies in American Jewish Literature
15 (1996): 29–41.

Blues, Thomas. “The Moral Structure of
Catch-22.
”
Studies in the Novel
3 (Spring 1971): 64–97.

Bradbury, Malcolm. Introduction to
Catch-22.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Burhans, Clinton S., Jr. “Spindrift and the Sea
:
Structural Patterns and Unifying Elements in
Catch-22.
”
Twentieth Century Literature
19 (1973): 239–50.

Caciedo, Alberto. “You Must Remember This: Trauma and Memory in
Catch-22
and
Slaughterhouse-Five.
”
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
46, no. 4 (2005): 357–68.

Cheuse, Alan. “Laughing on the Outside.”
Studies on the Left
3 (1963): 81–87.

Costa, Richard Howard. “Notes from a Dark Heller: Bob Slocum and the Underground Man.”
Texas Studies in Literature and Language
23, no. 2 (1981): 159–82.

Craig, David. “Rewriting a Classic and Thinking about a Life: Joseph Heller's
Closing Time.
”
CEA Critic
58, no. 3 (1996): 15–30.

Davis, Gary W. “
Catch-22
and the Language of Discontinuity.”
Novel
12, no. 1 (1978): 66–77.

Day, Douglas. “
Catch-22
: A Manifesto for Anarchists.”
Carolina Quarterly
15, no. 3 (1963): 86–92.

Doskow, Minna. “The Night Journey in
Catch-22.
”
Twentieth Century Literature
12 (1967): 186–93.

Frank, Mike. “Eros and Thanatos in
Catch-22.
”
Canadian Review of American Studies
7 (1976): 77–87.

Friedman, John, and Judith Ruderman. “Joseph Heller and the ‘Real' King David.”
Judaism
36, no. 3 (1987): 296–301.

Furlani, Andre. “‘Brisk Socratic Dialogues': Elenctic Rhetoric in Joseph Heller's
Something Happened.
”
Narrative
3, no. 3 (1995): 252–70.

Galloway, David. “Clown and Saint: The Hero in Current American Fiction.”
Critique
7, no. 3 (1965): 46–65.

Gaukroger, Doug. “Time Structure in
Catch-22.
”
Studies in Modern Fiction
12, no. 2 (1970): 70–85.

Granger, Jamie. “Love During Wartime: Adam and Eve in
Catch-22.
”
Pleiades
14, no. 2 (1994): 79–85.

Green, Daniel. “A World Worth Laughing At:
Catch-22
and the Humor of Black Humor.”
Studies in the Novel
27, no. 2 (1995): 186–96.

Greenfield, Josh. “22 Was Funnier Than 14.”
New York Times Book Review,
March 3, 1968, 1, 49–51, 53.

Henry, G. B. McK. “Significant Corn:
Catch-22.
”
Melbourne Critical Review
9 (1966): 133–44.

Hewes, Henry. “A Game for Our Sons.”
The Saturday Review,
November 2, 1968, 53.

Hidalgo-Dowling, Laura. “Negation as a Stylistic Feature in
Catch-22
: A Corpus Study.”
Style
37, no. 3 (2003): 318–41.

Kazin, Alfred. “The War Novel from Mailer to Vonnegut.”
The Saturday Review,
February 6, 1971, 13–15, 36.

Kennard, Jean E. “Joseph Heller: At War with Absurdity.”
Mosaic
4, no. 3 (1971): 75–87.

Klemptner, Susan S. “A Permanent Game of Excuses: Determinism in Heller's
Something Happened.
”
Modern Fiction Studies
24 (1978–1979): 550–56.

LeClair, Thomas. “Death and Black Humor.”
Critique
17, no. 1 (1975): 5–40.

———. “Joseph Heller,
Something Happened,
and the Art of Excess.”
Studies in American Fiction
9, no. 2 (1981): 245–60.