Joseph Heller has established himself as a major satirist in the field of contemporary American fiction. A new phrase was added to the American lexicon from the title of his first novel Catch-22 (1961). The term "catch-22" has become accepted in Webster'...
Joseph Heller (1923-1999) was a popular and respected writer whose first and best-known novel, Catch-22 (1961), is considered a classic of the post-World War II era. Presenting human existence as absurd and fragmented, this irreverent, witty novel satiri...
When Joseph Heller learned that the New York Times Book Review's response to his first novel was negative, he and his family were terribly depressed. "Waiting for that review to come out," he later told David Streitfeld of New York, "I didn't think any o...
God Knows is a tragicomedic novel written by Joseph Heller. It is narrated by the Biblical King David of Israel, and purports to be his deathbed memoirs; however, this David does not recount his life in a straightforward fashion, and the storyline is...
Norman Shabel Chateau Publishing House, Inc. www.chpinc.com 357 pp., $25 I find the author guilty of withholding evidence, but I'm hesitant to declare a mistrial. Whether the cause was oversight, error, or deliberate suppression, the reader isn't alerted to a crucial piece of...
Christine Wicker. St. Martin's, $22.95 (240p) ISBN O-312-19272-X (Religion/Memoir) Raised as a fundamentalist Southern Baptist, religion journalist Wicker (Dallas Morning News) fell away from her faith as a young woman and spent several years searching for God and meaning in different religious and...
A high school student says he was wrongly accused of calling in a bomb threat in part because school officials hadn't adjusted their clocks for daylight-saving time.Cody Webb, 15, called a school district hot line to listen to a recorded message about school delays at...
Gene and Elinor Coleman celebrated their 77th wedding anniversary Tuesday _ a marriage that may be the state's longest. Official records aren't kept so no one knows for certain. But the Colemans have been married long enough that their anniversary brought plenty...
