Something Happened (1974) by Joseph Heller Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur. I think that maybe in...
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...
Joseph Heller's second novel, Something Happened, appearing thirteen years after the publishing sensation Catch-22, turns the focus of the same jaundiced eye from life in the military to the work and home life of Corporate Man living the American Dream....
Catholics and American Culture Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame Football Team Mark S. Massa Crossroad, $24.95, 278 pp. Students of twentieth-century American Catholicism have been known to congratulate one another on the sly for choosing a field replete with...
Something happened at Jenin By TRUDY RUBIN Tuesday, April 23, 2002 Jenin, West Bank -- Was there an Israeli massacre of Palestinian refugees at Jenin refugee camp? The story of the Jenin "massacre" has already become legend. After spending a...
Barack Obama and his wife were just met with rioutous applause. The first thing he said was, "Thank you New Hampshire." There's no sense of defeat or loss to them whatsoever--you'd have no sense at all that he hadn't won the primary if you hadn't...
Excerpts of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., on his finish in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.OBAMA: Thank you, New Hampshire. I love you back. Thank you. Thank you.Well, thank you so much. I am still fired up and ready to go....Well, first...
