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Introduction Chapter 1: the Road to Catch-22 Notes INTRODUCTION 1. W. J. Weatherby, 'The Joy Catcher', Guardian, 20 Nov. 1962, p. 7. 2. James Nagel, 'Catch-22 and Angry Humor: A Study of the Normative Values of Satire', Studies in American Humor vol. 1 (1974) p. 102. 3. 'Humor and the Ability to Create It Cannot Be Taught', US News & World Report, 12 Nov. 1984, p. 71. 4. 'Joseph Heller Replies', The Realist vol. 50 (May 1964) p. 30. 5. 'Howe and Hummel'. MS in Harry Ranson Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. CHAPTER 1: THE ROAD TO CATCH-22 1. Barbara Gelb, 'Catching Joseph Heller', New York Times Magazine, 4 Mar. 1979, p. 51. Many of my biographical details are taken from this article. 2. Deborah Dash Moore, At Horne in America: Second Generation New York lews (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981) p. 80. 3. 'South Bank Show' BBC Television, 1984; Philip Roth, Reading Myself and Others (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985) pp. 125-6. 4. 'South Bank Show'. 5. Moore, p. 98. 6. Peter Lennon, 'Heller's New Gospel', The Times, 9 Nov. 1984, p. 10. 7. New York City by the Editors of Look (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956) p. 279. 8. Leo Rosten, Under the Boardwalk (New York: Grove Press, 1970) p. 51. 9. Rosten, Under the Boardwalk, p. 6. 10. Charles Ruas, Conversations with American Writers (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985) p. 145. 11. On the cover of the 1970 Grove Press edition of the novel. 12. 'Coney Island: The Fun Is Over', Show vol. 2 Ouly 1962) p. 51. 13. Richard Lehan and Jerry Patch, 'Catch-22: The Making of a Novel', in James Nagel (ed.), Critical Essays on 'Catch-22 , (Encino and Belmont, Cal.: Dickenson, 1974) pp. 39-40. 14. 'Joseph Heller', in George Plimpton (ed.), Writers at Work: The 'Paris Review' Interviews 5th Series (London: Secker & Warburg, 1981) p. 247. 15. Writers at Work, p. 233. 16. Ruas, p. 151. 17. 'Catch-22 Revisited', in F. Kiley and W. McDonald (eds), A 'Catch-22' Casebook (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1973) p. 321. 18. Letter from Daphne Dorman, 14 Apr. 1986. 217 218 Notes 19. Dale Gold, 'Portrait of a Man Reading', Washington Post Book World, 27 July 1969, p. 2. 20. Letter from Edward J. Bloustein, 30 July 1986. 21. Bemard Oldsey, 'Another Joe from Brooklyn: Heller in Happy Valley', Town & Gown, Nov. 1984, p. 26. 22. Josh Greenfeld, '22 was funnier than 14', Casebook, p. 252. 23. Paul Krassner, 'An Impolite Interview with Joseph Heller', in The Best of 'The Realist' (Philadelphia: Running Press, 1984) p. 78. Ihis interview is also reprinted in the Casebook, but in a slightly abbrevi­ ated form. 24. Greenfeld, p. 253. 25. Ruas, p. 130. 26. 'Catch-22 Author Now Has to Catch 10', San 'uan Star Magazine, 19 Apr. 1964, p. 5; 'The Cruelest Iaskmaster Of All', Forbes, 15 June 1975. 27. Caroline Moorehead, 'Writing novels slowly but with hardly a catch', The Times, 17 Oct. 1975, p. 10. 28. Ann Waldron, 'Writing technique can be taught, says Joseph Heller', Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 1975, p. 2. In connection with his course Baudin published Edgar Allan Poe and others: representative short stories of the nineteenth century (1953). It was the stories which Baudin commended that Heller submitted for publication. 29. 'Playboy Interview: Joseph Heller', Playboy, vol. 22 ijune 1975) p. 68. 30. 'I Don't Love You Anymore', Story, vol. 28 (Sept./Oct. 1945) p. 40. 31. In the Brandeis University Heller collection. 32. Letter from Candida Donadio to Whit Bumett, 11 Oct. 1963. Princeton. 33. Letter to Heller from Whit Bumett, 22 Aug. 1946. Princeton. 34. Letter from Heller to Whit Bumett, 22 Nov. 1962. Princeton. 35. James Jones, The Ice-Cream Headache and Other Stories (New York: DelI, 1970) p. 1. 36. 'Girl from Greenwich', Esquire, vol. 29 (1948) pp. 40-1, 142-3. 37. 'Nothing to be done', Esquire, vol. 30 (1948) pp. 73, 129-30. 38. 'A Man Named Flute', Atlantic Monthly, vol. 182 (Aug. 1948) pp. 66- 70. 39. Ruas, p. 148. 40. 'Bookies, Beware!', Esquire, vol. 27 (1947) p. 98. 41. 'Castle of Snow', Atlantic Monthly, vol. 181 (Mar. 1948) pp. 52-5. 42. Nelson Algren, 'The Catch', in Casebook, p. 4. 43. 'MacAdam's Log', Gentlemen's Quarterly, vol. 29 (Dec. 1959) p. 169. CHAPTER 2: CATCH-22 1. In a letter of 1963 to the National Institute of Arts and Letters written in connection with a grant Heller was subsequently awarded (ar­ chives of American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City). 2. Nelson Algren's review is collected in the Casebook. In 1961 Heller's Notes 219 literary agent was also acting for Thornas Pynchon and se nt hirn a copy of Catch-22. The result was abrief but very enthusiastic letter from Pynchon which is among the correspondence in the Heller collection at Brandeis University. Balliett's review is in the New Yorker, 9 Dec. 1961, p. 248. 3. Bob Azurdia, 'The Azurdia Interview: Joseph Heller', BBC Radio Merseyside, 1986. 4. Writers at Work, p. 236; Thomson Prentice, 'Author who was nearly written off', The Times 19 Nov. 1985, p. 14a. 5. James Nagel, 'Two Brief Manuscript Sketches: Heller's Catch-22', Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 20 (1974) p. 222. 6. AIden Whitman, 'Something always happens on the way to the office: An interview withJoseph Heller', in M. J. Bruccoli (ed.) Pages: The World ofBooks, Writers, and Writing, vol. 1 (Detroit: Gale, 1976) p. 80. 7. Richard B. Sale, 'An Interview in New York with Joseph Heller', Studies in the Novel, vol. 4 (1972) pp. 63-4. 8. Vance Ramsey, 'From Here To Absurdity: Heller's Catch-22', in Casebook, p. 225. 9. Catch-22 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1963) p. 70. Subsequent page references in text. 10. Ruas, p. 150. 11. John W. Aldridge, 'The Loony Horror of It All- Catch-22 Turns 25', New York Times Book Review, 26 Sept. 1986, p. 3. 12. Krassner, p. 78. 13. Tony Tanner, City of Words: A Study of American Fiction in the Mid-Twentieth Century (London: Jonathan Cape, 1979) p. 77. 14. Within these analogies General Dreedle could be compared with the Queen of Hearts. 15. Gelb, p. 54. 16. Sale, p. 73. 17. Walter Nash, The Language of Humour (London: Longman, 1985) p. 110. 18. Krassner, p. 79. 19. For an extended comparison beween the Genesis story and Catch-22 v. Marcus K. Billson III, 'The Un-Minderbinding of Yossarian: Genesis Inverted in Catch-22', Arizona Quarterly, vol. 36 (1980) pp. 315-29. 20. 'Joseph Heller in Conversation with Martin Amis', The New Review, vol. 2 (1975) no. 20, p. 56. 21. Sale, p. 73. 22. Revised partly for copyright reasons and published separately in Playboy (Dec. 1969) and reprinted in the Casebook (pp. 309-16). The correspondence relating to this piece is deposited in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. 23. Martin Gardner (ed.), The Annotated Alice (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977) p. 263. 24. 'Mel Brooks Meets Joseph Heller: Washington Post Book World, 19 220 Notes Mar. 1979, F4. Heller states: 'For many of these chapters, partic­ ularly the first 30 or 40, there is nothing significant about the headings'. 25. Roger H. Smith, 'Review', in J. Nagel, Critical Essays on 'Catch-22', p.31. 26. Ruas, p. 172. 27. Lieutenant Scheisskopf is compared to a manic Lear at one point in the novel. 28. Ruas, p. 152. 29. 'Middle-AgedInnocence', TheNation, vol. 194,20Jan., 1962, pp. 62-3. 30. 'The HeUer Cult', in Casebook, p. 24. 31. Krassner, p. 76; Sale, p. 69. 32. Jesse Ritter; 'Fearful Comedy: Catch-22 as Avatar of the Sodal Surrealist Novel', in Casebook, pp. 73-86. 33. Jan Solomon, 'The Structure of Joseph Heller's Catch-22'; Doug Gaukroger, 'Time Structure in Catch-22'; in Casebook, pp. 122-32 and 132-44 respectively. 34. Howard J. Stark, 'The Anatomy of Catch-22', Casebook, pp. 145-58; James M. McDonald, 'I See Everything Twice! The Structure of Joseph Heller's Catch-22', in Casebook, p. 105; Robert Protherough, 'The Sanity of Catch-22', in Casebook, p. 202; Smith, p. 25; Stephen W. Potts, From Here To Absurdity: The Moral Battlefields ofJoseph Heller (San Bernardino, Cal.: Borgo Press, 1982) p. 8. 35. Robert Merrill, Joseph Heller (Boston: Twayne, 1987) p. 38. 36. Paul Ricoeur, 'Narrative Time', CriticalInquiry, vol. 7 (1980) p. 171. 37. C. E. Reilly and Carol Villei, 'An Interview with Joseph Heller', Delaware Literary Review, Spring 1975, p. 21. 38. Robert Merrill rightly cautions against the use of a term like 'flash­ back' in this context (p. 39). 39. An excellent discussion of narrative difficulty in this novel is given in Peter Brook's Reading for the Plot. Design and Intention in Narrative (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984) chap. 11. 40. Sale, p. 69. 41. Merrill-, pp. 39, 48-9. 42. The details in the novel correspond very closely to Heller's 37th mission to A vignon (Ken Barnard, 'Interview with Joseph Heller', in Casebook, pp. 297-8). 43. James Nagel, 'The Catch-22 Note Cards', in James Nagel (ed.), Critical Essays on Joseph Heller (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984) p. 53. This article gives unique insights into the composition of the novel. 44. Sale, p. 74. 45. Minna Doskow, 'The Night Journey in Catch-22', Critical Essays on 'Catch-22', p. 162. 46. Sale, p. 66. 47. Josh Greenfeld, '22 Was Funnier Than 14', in Casebook, p. 254. 48. 'Joseph Heller in Conversation with Martin Amis', p. 59. 49. Whitman, p. SO. SO. Michael Kustow, 'Joseph Heller' video recording (London: 1CA, 1985).
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