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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 -- December 12, 1999) was an American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His best known work is Catch-22, a novel about US servicemen during World War II. The title of this work entered the English lexicon to refer to absurd, no-win choices, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility, and regardless of choice, the same negative outcome is a certainty. Heller is widely regarded as one of the best post--World War II satirists. Although he is remembered primarily for Catch-22, his other works center on the lives of various members of the middle class and remain exemplars of modern satire. - Wikipedia
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Catch-22 is a satirical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953, and the novel was first published in 1961. It is set during World War II in 1943 and is frequently cited as one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. It uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from different characters' points of view and out of sequence so that the time line develops along with the plot.
The novel follows Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea west of Italy. The novel looks into the experiences of Yossarian and the other airmen in the camp, and their attempts to keep their sanity in order to fulfill their service requirements, so that they can return home. The phrase "Catch-22", "a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem or by a rule," has entered the English language.
Heller wanted to be a writer from an early age; his experiences as a bombardier during World War II inspired Catch-22;[14] Heller later said that he "never had a bad officer." In a 1977 essay on Catch-22, Heller stated that the "antiwar and antigovernment feelings in the book" were a product of the Korean War and the 1950s rather than World War II itself. Heller's criticisms are not intended for World War II but for the Cold War and McCarthyism.[15]
The influence of the 1950s on Catch-22 is evident through Heller's extensive use of anachronism. Though the novel is ostensibly set in World War II, Heller intentionally included anachronisms like loyalty oaths and computers (IBM machines) to situate the novel in the context of the 1950s.[9] Many of the characters are based on or connected to individuals from the 1950s:
Milo Minderbinder's maxim "What's good for M&M; Enterprises is good for the country" alludes to former president of General Motors Charles Erwin Wilson's statement before the Senate "What's good for General Motors is good for the country."[9]
The question of "Who promoted Major Major?" alludes to Joseph McCarthy's questioning of the promotion of Major Peress, an army dentist who refused to sign loyalty oaths.[9]
Czech writer Arnošt Lustig recounts in his book 3x18 that Joseph Heller told him that he would never have written Catch-22 had he not first read The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek.[16]
In 1998, some critics raised the possibility that Heller's book had questionable similarities to Louis Falstein's 1950 novel, Face of a Hero. Falstein never raised the issue between Catch-22's publication and his death in 1995 and Heller claimed never to have been aware of the obscure novel. Heller said that the novel had been influenced by Céline, Waugh and Nabokov. Many of the similarities have been stated to be attributable to the authors' experiences, both having served as U.S. Air Force aircrew in Italy in World War II. However, their themes and styles are different.[17]
Catch-22 was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1970, directed by Mike Nichols.
Aquila Theatre produced a stage adaptation of Catch-22, based on Heller's 1971 stage adaption. It was directed by Peter Meineck. This production toured the USA in 2007/8 with a New York City production in the fall of 2008.[32]
A pilot for a comedy series based upon Catch-22 was made and televised in 1973, with Richard Dreyfuss in the starring role of Capt. Yossarian.[33]
The ska band Catch 22 took its name from the book.
In 2010, Michael Silver coined the phrase "The Environmentalism Catch-22" to describe the dilemma faced by the environmental movement which both supports a green technology future reliant on solar energy, wind power, electric cars and fuel cells and concurrently opposes the mining of the critical metals from which these technologies are manufactured.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22
- published: 25 Dec 2013
- views: 7881
From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013.
The views and ideas expressed in these videos are not necessarily shared by the University of California, or by the UCLA Communication Studies Department.
- published: 29 Jan 2014
- views: 2574
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 -- 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard and became the costliest battle in terms of casualties for the United States, whose forces bore the brunt of the attack. It also severely depleted Germany's war-making resources.
The battle was known by different names. The Germans referred to it as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein ("Operation Watch on the Rhine"), while the French named it the Bataille des Ardennes ("Battle of the Ardennes"). The Allies called it the Ardennes Counteroffensive. The phrase "Battle of the Bulge" was coined by contemporary press to describe the way the Allied front line bulged inward on wartime news maps and became the best known name for the battle.
The German offensive was supported by several subordinate operations known as Unternehmen Bodenplatte, Greif, and Währung. Germany's goal for these operations was to split the British and American Allied line in half, capture Antwerp, and then proceed to encircle and destroy four Allied armies, forcing the Western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis Powers' favour. Once that was accomplished, Hitler could fully concentrate on the eastern theatre of war.
The offensive was planned with the utmost secrecy, minimizing radio traffic and moving troops and equipment under cover of darkness. The Third U.S. Army's intelligence staff predicted a major German offensive, and Ultra indicated that a "substantial and offensive" operation was expected or "in the wind", although a precise date or point of attack could not be given. Aircraft movement from the Russian Front and transport of forces by rail, both to the Ardennes, was noticed but not acted upon, according to a report later written by Peter Calvocoressi and F. L. Lucas at the codebreaking centre Bletchley Park.
Near-complete surprise was achieved by a combination of Allied overconfidence, preoccupation with Allied offensive plans, and poor aerial reconnaissance. The Germans attacked a weakly defended section of the Allied line, taking advantage of heavily overcast weather conditions, which grounded the Allies' overwhelmingly superior air forces. Fierce resistance on the northern shoulder of the offensive around Elsenborn Ridge and in the south around Bastogne blocked German access to key roads to the northwest and west that they counted on for success; columns that were supposed to advance along parallel routes found themselves on the same roads. This and terrain that favoured the defenders threw the German advance behind schedule and allowed the Allies to reinforce the thinly placed troops. Improved weather conditions permitted air attacks on German forces and supply lines, which sealed the failure of the offensive. In the wake of the defeat, many experienced German units were left severely depleted of men and equipment, as survivors retreated to the defenses of the Siegfried Line.
The battle involved about 610,000 American men, of whom some 89,000 were casualties, including 19,000 killed. It was the largest and bloodiest battle fought by the United States in World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_bulge
Victory in Europe Day—known as V-E Day or VE Day—was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (in Commonwealth countries, 7 May 1945) to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe. The formal surrender of the occupying German forces in the Channel Islands was not until 9 May 1945. On 30 April Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin, and so the surrender of Germany was authorized by his successor, President of Germany Karl Dönitz. The administration headed by Dönitz was known as the Flensburg government. The act of military surrender was signed on 7 May in Reims, France, and on 8 May in Berlin, Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VE_day
- published: 14 Dec 2013
- views: 46493
William Clark Styron, Jr. (June 11, 1925 -- November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.
For much of his career, Styron was best known for his novels, including:
Lie Down in Darkness (1951), his acclaimed first novel, published at age 26;
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt;
Sophie's Choice (1979), a story "told through the eyes of a young aspiring writer from the South, about a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and her brilliant but troubled Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn".
In 1985, he suffered his most serious bout with depression. Out of this grave and menacing experience, he was later able to write the memoir Darkness Visible (1990), the work Styron became best known for during the last two decades of his life.
In an episode of the television series Cheers titled "Thanksgiving Orphans" (this episode first aired in 1986), Styron is mentioned as an esteemed guest of a Thanksgiving party hosted by one of Diane Chambers' literature professors. Styron and other guests at the party are expected to recreate the first Thanksgiving.
Styron appears as himself in the 1993 movie Naked in New York
Styron's Darkness Visible was part of the plot of the 2013 film, Side Effects, a crime thriller about depression.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Styron
Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 -- December 12, 1999) was an American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. The title of one of his works, Catch-22, entered the English lexicon to refer to a vicious circle wherein an absurd, no-win choice, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility, and regardless of choice, a same negative outcome is a certainty. Although he is remembered primarily for Catch-22, his other works center on the lives of various members of the middle class and remain examples of modern satire.
Joseph Heller was born in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, the son of poor Jewish parents, Lena and Isaac Donald Heller, from Russia. Even as a child, he loved to write; as a teenager, he wrote a story about the Russian invasion of Finland and sent it to New York Daily News, which rejected it. At least one scholar suggests that he knew that he wanted to become a writer, after recalling that he received a children's version of the Iliad when he was ten. After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1941, Heller spent the next year working as a blacksmith's apprentice, a messenger boy, and a filing clerk. In 1942, at age 19, he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps. Two years later he was sent to the Italian Front, where he flew 60 combat missions as a B-25 bombardier. His Unit was the 488th Bombardment Squadron, 340th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force. Heller later remembered the war as "fun in the beginning... You got the feeling that there was something glorious about it." On his return home he "felt like a hero... People think it quite remarkable that I was in combat in an airplane and I flew sixty missions even though I tell them that the missions were largely milk runs." ("Milk runs" were combat missions, but mostly uneventful due to a lack of intense opposition from enemy anti-aircraft artillery or fighters.)
After the war, Heller studied English at the University of Southern California and NYU on the G.I. Bill. In 1949, he received his M.A. in English from Columbia University. Following his graduation, he spent a year as a Fulbright scholar at St Catherine's College, Oxford. After returning home, he taught composition at Pennsylvania State University for two years. He also taught fiction and dramatic writing at Yale. He then briefly worked for Time Inc., before taking a job as a copywriter at a small advertising agency, where he worked alongside future novelist Mary Higgins Clark. At home, Heller wrote. He was first published in 1948, when The Atlantic ran one of his short stories. That first story nearly won the "Atlantic First."
He was married to Shirley Held from 1945 to 1981 and they had two children, Erica (born 1952) and Ted (born 1956).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Heller
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (/ˈvɒnɨɡət/; November 11, 1922 -- April 11, 2007) was an American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973) blend satire, gallows humor, and science fiction. As a citizen he was a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a critical pacifist intellectual. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.
The New York Times headline at the time of Vonnegut's passing called Vonnegut "the counterculture's novelist."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut
- published: 21 Dec 2013
- views: 8098
50 years after it was first written Joseph Heller's Catch-22 is still the definitve word on the madness of war. Hilarious, unforgettable and tragic.
Illustrator Ian Higginbotham won a gold medal in the Moving Image category for this video at the Society of Illustrators competition in New York.
Buy the limited edition anniversary edition here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Catch-22-50th-Anniversary-Vintage-Classics/dp/0099529114/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie;=UTF8&qid;=1324295566&sr;=1-1
Directed by Alan Trotter
Illustrations by Ian Higginbotham
Narration by Will Rycroft
www.vintage-books.co.uk
- published: 16 Dec 2011
- views: 6119
Catch 22 Audiobook
Catch-22 is a satirical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. It is frequently cited as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century.[2] It uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate storylines are out of sequence so that the timeline develops along with the plot.
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Joseph Heller on Bookworm, from Dec 19 1994. KCRW own all the rights.
- published: 05 Feb 2013
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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His best known work is Catch-22, a novel about US servicemen during World War II. The title of this work entered the English lexicon to refer to absurd, no-win choices, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility, and regardless of choice, the same negative outcome is a certainty. Heller is widely regarded as one of the best post–World War II satirists. Although he is remembered primarily for Catch-22, his other works center on the lives of various members of the middle class and remain exemplars of modern satire.
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9:04Joseph Heller Interview with Bill Boggs
Joseph Heller Interview with Bill BoggsJoseph Heller Interview with Bill Boggs
Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 -- December 12, 1999) was an American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His best known work is Catch-22, a novel about US servicemen during World War II. The title of this work entered the English lexicon to refer to absurd, no-win choices, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility, and regardless of choice, the same negative outcome is a certainty. Heller is widely regarded as one of the best post--World War II satirists. Although he is remembered primarily for Catch-22, his other works center on the lives of various members of the middle class and remain exemplars of modern satire. - Wikipedia Footage Owned by Bill Boggs http://www.BillBoggs.com YouTube Managed by Exit 172 Productions, LLC. http://Exit172Productions.com John Hedlund - Owner & Producer BillBoggsTV@Gmail.com -
6:43Joseph Heller part 1
Joseph Heller part 1Joseph Heller part 1
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47:32The Writing of Catch-22: Joseph Heller on His Childhood and Experiences in World War II (1998)
The Writing of Catch-22: Joseph Heller on His Childhood and Experiences in World War II (1998)The Writing of Catch-22: Joseph Heller on His Childhood and Experiences in World War II (1998)
Catch-22 is a satirical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953, and the novel was first published in 1961. It is set during World War II in 1943 and is frequently cited as one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. It uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from different characters' points of view and out of sequence so that the time line develops along with the plot. The novel follows Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea west of Italy. The novel looks into the experiences of Yossarian and the other airmen in the camp, and their attempts to keep their sanity in order to fulfill their service requirements, so that they can return home. The phrase "Catch-22", "a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem or by a rule," has entered the English language. Heller wanted to be a writer from an early age; his experiences as a bombardier during World War II inspired Catch-22;[14] Heller later said that he "never had a bad officer." In a 1977 essay on Catch-22, Heller stated that the "antiwar and antigovernment feelings in the book" were a product of the Korean War and the 1950s rather than World War II itself. Heller's criticisms are not intended for World War II but for the Cold War and McCarthyism.[15] The influence of the 1950s on Catch-22 is evident through Heller's extensive use of anachronism. Though the novel is ostensibly set in World War II, Heller intentionally included anachronisms like loyalty oaths and computers (IBM machines) to situate the novel in the context of the 1950s.[9] Many of the characters are based on or connected to individuals from the 1950s: Milo Minderbinder's maxim "What's good for M&M; Enterprises is good for the country" alludes to former president of General Motors Charles Erwin Wilson's statement before the Senate "What's good for General Motors is good for the country."[9] The question of "Who promoted Major Major?" alludes to Joseph McCarthy's questioning of the promotion of Major Peress, an army dentist who refused to sign loyalty oaths.[9] Czech writer Arnošt Lustig recounts in his book 3x18 that Joseph Heller told him that he would never have written Catch-22 had he not first read The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek.[16] In 1998, some critics raised the possibility that Heller's book had questionable similarities to Louis Falstein's 1950 novel, Face of a Hero. Falstein never raised the issue between Catch-22's publication and his death in 1995 and Heller claimed never to have been aware of the obscure novel. Heller said that the novel had been influenced by Céline, Waugh and Nabokov. Many of the similarities have been stated to be attributable to the authors' experiences, both having served as U.S. Air Force aircrew in Italy in World War II. However, their themes and styles are different.[17] Catch-22 was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1970, directed by Mike Nichols. Aquila Theatre produced a stage adaptation of Catch-22, based on Heller's 1971 stage adaption. It was directed by Peter Meineck. This production toured the USA in 2007/8 with a New York City production in the fall of 2008.[32] A pilot for a comedy series based upon Catch-22 was made and televised in 1973, with Richard Dreyfuss in the starring role of Capt. Yossarian.[33] The ska band Catch 22 took its name from the book. In 2010, Michael Silver coined the phrase "The Environmentalism Catch-22" to describe the dilemma faced by the environmental movement which both supports a green technology future reliant on solar energy, wind power, electric cars and fuel cells and concurrently opposes the mining of the critical metals from which these technologies are manufactured. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22 -
96:12Joseph Heller speaking at UCLA 4/8/1970
Joseph Heller speaking at UCLA 4/8/1970Joseph Heller speaking at UCLA 4/8/1970
From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013. The views and ideas expressed in these videos are not necessarily shared by the University of California, or by the UCLA Communication Studies Department. -
103:22Kurt Vonnegut & Joseph Heller War Experience: Battle of the Bulge, Bombing Raids, VE Day (1995)
Kurt Vonnegut & Joseph Heller War Experience: Battle of the Bulge, Bombing Raids, VE Day (1995)Kurt Vonnegut & Joseph Heller War Experience: Battle of the Bulge, Bombing Raids, VE Day (1995)
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 -- 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard and became the costliest battle in terms of casualties for the United States, whose forces bore the brunt of the attack. It also severely depleted Germany's war-making resources. The battle was known by different names. The Germans referred to it as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein ("Operation Watch on the Rhine"), while the French named it the Bataille des Ardennes ("Battle of the Ardennes"). The Allies called it the Ardennes Counteroffensive. The phrase "Battle of the Bulge" was coined by contemporary press to describe the way the Allied front line bulged inward on wartime news maps and became the best known name for the battle. The German offensive was supported by several subordinate operations known as Unternehmen Bodenplatte, Greif, and Währung. Germany's goal for these operations was to split the British and American Allied line in half, capture Antwerp, and then proceed to encircle and destroy four Allied armies, forcing the Western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis Powers' favour. Once that was accomplished, Hitler could fully concentrate on the eastern theatre of war. The offensive was planned with the utmost secrecy, minimizing radio traffic and moving troops and equipment under cover of darkness. The Third U.S. Army's intelligence staff predicted a major German offensive, and Ultra indicated that a "substantial and offensive" operation was expected or "in the wind", although a precise date or point of attack could not be given. Aircraft movement from the Russian Front and transport of forces by rail, both to the Ardennes, was noticed but not acted upon, according to a report later written by Peter Calvocoressi and F. L. Lucas at the codebreaking centre Bletchley Park. Near-complete surprise was achieved by a combination of Allied overconfidence, preoccupation with Allied offensive plans, and poor aerial reconnaissance. The Germans attacked a weakly defended section of the Allied line, taking advantage of heavily overcast weather conditions, which grounded the Allies' overwhelmingly superior air forces. Fierce resistance on the northern shoulder of the offensive around Elsenborn Ridge and in the south around Bastogne blocked German access to key roads to the northwest and west that they counted on for success; columns that were supposed to advance along parallel routes found themselves on the same roads. This and terrain that favoured the defenders threw the German advance behind schedule and allowed the Allies to reinforce the thinly placed troops. Improved weather conditions permitted air attacks on German forces and supply lines, which sealed the failure of the offensive. In the wake of the defeat, many experienced German units were left severely depleted of men and equipment, as survivors retreated to the defenses of the Siegfried Line. The battle involved about 610,000 American men, of whom some 89,000 were casualties, including 19,000 killed. It was the largest and bloodiest battle fought by the United States in World War II. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_bulge Victory in Europe Day—known as V-E Day or VE Day—was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (in Commonwealth countries, 7 May 1945) to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe. The formal surrender of the occupying German forces in the Channel Islands was not until 9 May 1945. On 30 April Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin, and so the surrender of Germany was authorized by his successor, President of Germany Karl Dönitz. The administration headed by Dönitz was known as the Flensburg government. The act of military surrender was signed on 7 May in Reims, France, and on 8 May in Berlin, Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VE_day -
91:59William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut & Joseph Heller: War and Racism in American Culture (1997)
William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut & Joseph Heller: War and Racism in American Culture (1997)William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut & Joseph Heller: War and Racism in American Culture (1997)
William Clark Styron, Jr. (June 11, 1925 -- November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work. For much of his career, Styron was best known for his novels, including: Lie Down in Darkness (1951), his acclaimed first novel, published at age 26; The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt; Sophie's Choice (1979), a story "told through the eyes of a young aspiring writer from the South, about a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and her brilliant but troubled Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn". In 1985, he suffered his most serious bout with depression. Out of this grave and menacing experience, he was later able to write the memoir Darkness Visible (1990), the work Styron became best known for during the last two decades of his life. In an episode of the television series Cheers titled "Thanksgiving Orphans" (this episode first aired in 1986), Styron is mentioned as an esteemed guest of a Thanksgiving party hosted by one of Diane Chambers' literature professors. Styron and other guests at the party are expected to recreate the first Thanksgiving. Styron appears as himself in the 1993 movie Naked in New York Styron's Darkness Visible was part of the plot of the 2013 film, Side Effects, a crime thriller about depression. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Styron Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 -- December 12, 1999) was an American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. The title of one of his works, Catch-22, entered the English lexicon to refer to a vicious circle wherein an absurd, no-win choice, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility, and regardless of choice, a same negative outcome is a certainty. Although he is remembered primarily for Catch-22, his other works center on the lives of various members of the middle class and remain examples of modern satire. Joseph Heller was born in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, the son of poor Jewish parents, Lena and Isaac Donald Heller, from Russia. Even as a child, he loved to write; as a teenager, he wrote a story about the Russian invasion of Finland and sent it to New York Daily News, which rejected it. At least one scholar suggests that he knew that he wanted to become a writer, after recalling that he received a children's version of the Iliad when he was ten. After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1941, Heller spent the next year working as a blacksmith's apprentice, a messenger boy, and a filing clerk. In 1942, at age 19, he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps. Two years later he was sent to the Italian Front, where he flew 60 combat missions as a B-25 bombardier. His Unit was the 488th Bombardment Squadron, 340th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force. Heller later remembered the war as "fun in the beginning... You got the feeling that there was something glorious about it." On his return home he "felt like a hero... People think it quite remarkable that I was in combat in an airplane and I flew sixty missions even though I tell them that the missions were largely milk runs." ("Milk runs" were combat missions, but mostly uneventful due to a lack of intense opposition from enemy anti-aircraft artillery or fighters.) After the war, Heller studied English at the University of Southern California and NYU on the G.I. Bill. In 1949, he received his M.A. in English from Columbia University. Following his graduation, he spent a year as a Fulbright scholar at St Catherine's College, Oxford. After returning home, he taught composition at Pennsylvania State University for two years. He also taught fiction and dramatic writing at Yale. He then briefly worked for Time Inc., before taking a job as a copywriter at a small advertising agency, where he worked alongside future novelist Mary Higgins Clark. At home, Heller wrote. He was first published in 1948, when The Atlantic ran one of his short stories. That first story nearly won the "Atlantic First." He was married to Shirley Held from 1945 to 1981 and they had two children, Erica (born 1952) and Ted (born 1956). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Heller Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (/ˈvɒnɨɡət/; November 11, 1922 -- April 11, 2007) was an American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973) blend satire, gallows humor, and science fiction. As a citizen he was a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a critical pacifist intellectual. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association. The New York Times headline at the time of Vonnegut's passing called Vonnegut "the counterculture's novelist." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut -
2:49Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Catch-22 - Joseph HellerCatch-22 - Joseph Heller
50 years after it was first written Joseph Heller's Catch-22 is still the definitve word on the madness of war. Hilarious, unforgettable and tragic. Illustrator Ian Higginbotham won a gold medal in the Moving Image category for this video at the Society of Illustrators competition in New York. Buy the limited edition anniversary edition here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Catch-22-50th-Anniversary-Vintage-Classics/dp/0099529114/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie;=UTF8&qid;=1324295566&sr;=1-1 Directed by Alan Trotter Illustrations by Ian Higginbotham Narration by Will Rycroft www.vintage-books.co.uk -
314:20Catch 22 Audiobook | Joseph Heller Audiobook Part 1
Catch 22 Audiobook | Joseph Heller Audiobook Part 1Catch 22 Audiobook | Joseph Heller Audiobook Part 1
Catch 22 Audiobook Catch-22 is a satirical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. It is frequently cited as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century.[2] It uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate storylines are out of sequence so that the timeline develops along with the plot. -
628:38Catch 22 Joseph Heller Audiobook part 1/2
Catch 22 Joseph Heller Audiobook part 1/2Catch 22 Joseph Heller Audiobook part 1/2
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28:51Joseph Heller on Bookworm
Joseph Heller on Bookworm
- ABC Radio National
- Alan Arkin
- Albert Camus
- Alfred Knopf
- B-25
- Baby-boomers
- Black comedy
- Broadway theatre
- Brooklyn
- Brooklyn, New York
- Buzzword
- Catch 22 (play)
- Catch-22
- Catch-22 (film)
- Catch-22 (play)
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Christopher Hitchens
- Clevinger's Trial
- Closing Time (novel)
- Columbia University
- Coney Island
- Dirty Dingus Magee
- Dustin Hoffman
- Face of a Hero
- Franz Kafka
- Fulbright scholar
- G.I. Bill
- George Mandel
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Heller, Joseph Filmography
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Famous quotes by Joseph Heller:
"Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them."
"When I grow up I want to be a little boy."
"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind."
"When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?""
"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt."
"Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure."
"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."
"Procastination is the thief of time."
"Every writer I know has trouble writing."
"I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service."
"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to."
"Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry."
"I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals."
"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more."
"But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents."
"Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck."
"Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about."
"He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody."
"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."
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Joseph Heller Interview with Bill Boggs
Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 -- December 12, 1999) was an American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His best known work is Catch-22, a novel about US servicemen during World War II. The title of this work entered the English lexicon to refer to absurd, no-win choices, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility, and regardless of choice, the same negative outcome is a certainty. Heller is widely regarded as one of the best post--World War II satirists. Although he is remembered primarily for Catch-22, his other works center on the lives of various members of the middle class and remain exemplars of modern satire. - Wikipedia Footage Owned by Bill Boggs http://www.BillBoggs.com YouTube Managed by Exit 172 Productions, LLC.... -
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The Writing of Catch-22: Joseph Heller on His Childhood and Experiences in World War II (1998)
Catch-22 is a satirical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953, and the novel was first published in 1961. It is set during World War II in 1943 and is frequently cited as one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. It uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from different characters' points of view and out of sequence so that the time line develops along with the plot. The novel follows Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea west of Italy. The novel looks into the experiences of Yossarian and the other airmen in the camp, and their attemp... -
Joseph Heller speaking at UCLA 4/8/1970
From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013. The views and ideas expressed in these videos are not necessarily shared by the University of California, or by the UCLA Communication Studies Department. -
Kurt Vonnegut & Joseph Heller War Experience: Battle of the Bulge, Bombing Raids, VE Day (1995)
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 -- 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard and became the costliest battle in terms of casualties for the United States, whose forces bore the brunt of the attack. It also severely depleted Germany's war-making resources. The battle was known by different names. The Germans referred to it as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein ("Operation Watch on the Rhine"), while the French named it the Bataille des Ardennes ("Battle of the Ardennes"). The Allies called it the Ardennes Counteroffensive. The phrase "Battle of the B... -
William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut & Joseph Heller: War and Racism in American Culture (1997)
William Clark Styron, Jr. (June 11, 1925 -- November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work. For much of his career, Styron was best known for his novels, including: Lie Down in Darkness (1951), his acclaimed first novel, published at age 26; The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt; Sophie's Choice (1979), a story "told through the eyes of a young aspiring writer from the South, about a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and her brilliant but troubled Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn". In 1985, he suffered his most serious bout with depression. Out of this grave and menacing experience, he was later able to write the memoir Darkness Visible (1990), the work Styron beca... -
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
50 years after it was first written Joseph Heller's Catch-22 is still the definitve word on the madness of war. Hilarious, unforgettable and tragic. Illustrator Ian Higginbotham won a gold medal in the Moving Image category for this video at the Society of Illustrators competition in New York. Buy the limited edition anniversary edition here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Catch-22-50th-Anniversary-Vintage-Classics/dp/0099529114/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie;=UTF8&qid;=1324295566&sr;=1-1 Directed by Alan Trotter Illustrations by Ian Higginbotham Narration by Will Rycroft www.vintage-books.co.uk -
Catch 22 Audiobook | Joseph Heller Audiobook Part 1
Catch 22 Audiobook Catch-22 is a satirical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. It is frequently cited as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century.[2] It uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate storylines are out of sequence so that the timeline develops along with the plot. -
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Joseph Heller Interview with Bill Boggs
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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 -- December 12, 1999) was an American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His best known work is Catch-22, a nove...
Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 -- December 12, 1999) was an American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His best known work is Catch-22, a novel about US servicemen during World War II. The title of this work entered the English lexicon to refer to absurd, no-win choices, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility, and regardless of choice, the same negative outcome is a certainty. Heller is widely regarded as one of the best post--World War II satirists. Although he is remembered primarily for Catch-22, his other works center on the lives of various members of the middle class and remain exemplars of modern satire. - Wikipedia
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wn.com/Joseph Heller Interview With Bill Boggs
Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 -- December 12, 1999) was an American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His best known work is Catch-22, a novel about US servicemen during World War II. The title of this work entered the English lexicon to refer to absurd, no-win choices, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility, and regardless of choice, the same negative outcome is a certainty. Heller is widely regarded as one of the best post--World War II satirists. Although he is remembered primarily for Catch-22, his other works center on the lives of various members of the middle class and remain exemplars of modern satire. - Wikipedia
Footage Owned by Bill Boggs
http://www.BillBoggs.com
YouTube Managed by Exit 172 Productions, LLC.
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John Hedlund - Owner & Producer
BillBoggsTV@Gmail.com
- published: 03 May 2012
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Joseph Heller part 1
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- Duration: 6:43
- Updated: 07 Jan 2009
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The Writing of Catch-22: Joseph Heller on His Childhood and Experiences in World War II (1998)
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Catch-22 is a satirical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953, and the novel was first published in 1961. It is set during Wor...
Catch-22 is a satirical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953, and the novel was first published in 1961. It is set during World War II in 1943 and is frequently cited as one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. It uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from different characters' points of view and out of sequence so that the time line develops along with the plot.
The novel follows Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea west of Italy. The novel looks into the experiences of Yossarian and the other airmen in the camp, and their attempts to keep their sanity in order to fulfill their service requirements, so that they can return home. The phrase "Catch-22", "a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem or by a rule," has entered the English language.
Heller wanted to be a writer from an early age; his experiences as a bombardier during World War II inspired Catch-22;[14] Heller later said that he "never had a bad officer." In a 1977 essay on Catch-22, Heller stated that the "antiwar and antigovernment feelings in the book" were a product of the Korean War and the 1950s rather than World War II itself. Heller's criticisms are not intended for World War II but for the Cold War and McCarthyism.[15]
The influence of the 1950s on Catch-22 is evident through Heller's extensive use of anachronism. Though the novel is ostensibly set in World War II, Heller intentionally included anachronisms like loyalty oaths and computers (IBM machines) to situate the novel in the context of the 1950s.[9] Many of the characters are based on or connected to individuals from the 1950s:
Milo Minderbinder's maxim "What's good for M&M; Enterprises is good for the country" alludes to former president of General Motors Charles Erwin Wilson's statement before the Senate "What's good for General Motors is good for the country."[9]
The question of "Who promoted Major Major?" alludes to Joseph McCarthy's questioning of the promotion of Major Peress, an army dentist who refused to sign loyalty oaths.[9]
Czech writer Arnošt Lustig recounts in his book 3x18 that Joseph Heller told him that he would never have written Catch-22 had he not first read The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek.[16]
In 1998, some critics raised the possibility that Heller's book had questionable similarities to Louis Falstein's 1950 novel, Face of a Hero. Falstein never raised the issue between Catch-22's publication and his death in 1995 and Heller claimed never to have been aware of the obscure novel. Heller said that the novel had been influenced by Céline, Waugh and Nabokov. Many of the similarities have been stated to be attributable to the authors' experiences, both having served as U.S. Air Force aircrew in Italy in World War II. However, their themes and styles are different.[17]
Catch-22 was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1970, directed by Mike Nichols.
Aquila Theatre produced a stage adaptation of Catch-22, based on Heller's 1971 stage adaption. It was directed by Peter Meineck. This production toured the USA in 2007/8 with a New York City production in the fall of 2008.[32]
A pilot for a comedy series based upon Catch-22 was made and televised in 1973, with Richard Dreyfuss in the starring role of Capt. Yossarian.[33]
The ska band Catch 22 took its name from the book.
In 2010, Michael Silver coined the phrase "The Environmentalism Catch-22" to describe the dilemma faced by the environmental movement which both supports a green technology future reliant on solar energy, wind power, electric cars and fuel cells and concurrently opposes the mining of the critical metals from which these technologies are manufactured.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22
wn.com/The Writing Of Catch 22 Joseph Heller On His Childhood And Experiences In World War Ii (1998)
Catch-22 is a satirical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953, and the novel was first published in 1961. It is set during World War II in 1943 and is frequently cited as one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. It uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from different characters' points of view and out of sequence so that the time line develops along with the plot.
The novel follows Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea west of Italy. The novel looks into the experiences of Yossarian and the other airmen in the camp, and their attempts to keep their sanity in order to fulfill their service requirements, so that they can return home. The phrase "Catch-22", "a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem or by a rule," has entered the English language.
Heller wanted to be a writer from an early age; his experiences as a bombardier during World War II inspired Catch-22;[14] Heller later said that he "never had a bad officer." In a 1977 essay on Catch-22, Heller stated that the "antiwar and antigovernment feelings in the book" were a product of the Korean War and the 1950s rather than World War II itself. Heller's criticisms are not intended for World War II but for the Cold War and McCarthyism.[15]
The influence of the 1950s on Catch-22 is evident through Heller's extensive use of anachronism. Though the novel is ostensibly set in World War II, Heller intentionally included anachronisms like loyalty oaths and computers (IBM machines) to situate the novel in the context of the 1950s.[9] Many of the characters are based on or connected to individuals from the 1950s:
Milo Minderbinder's maxim "What's good for M&M; Enterprises is good for the country" alludes to former president of General Motors Charles Erwin Wilson's statement before the Senate "What's good for General Motors is good for the country."[9]
The question of "Who promoted Major Major?" alludes to Joseph McCarthy's questioning of the promotion of Major Peress, an army dentist who refused to sign loyalty oaths.[9]
Czech writer Arnošt Lustig recounts in his book 3x18 that Joseph Heller told him that he would never have written Catch-22 had he not first read The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek.[16]
In 1998, some critics raised the possibility that Heller's book had questionable similarities to Louis Falstein's 1950 novel, Face of a Hero. Falstein never raised the issue between Catch-22's publication and his death in 1995 and Heller claimed never to have been aware of the obscure novel. Heller said that the novel had been influenced by Céline, Waugh and Nabokov. Many of the similarities have been stated to be attributable to the authors' experiences, both having served as U.S. Air Force aircrew in Italy in World War II. However, their themes and styles are different.[17]
Catch-22 was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1970, directed by Mike Nichols.
Aquila Theatre produced a stage adaptation of Catch-22, based on Heller's 1971 stage adaption. It was directed by Peter Meineck. This production toured the USA in 2007/8 with a New York City production in the fall of 2008.[32]
A pilot for a comedy series based upon Catch-22 was made and televised in 1973, with Richard Dreyfuss in the starring role of Capt. Yossarian.[33]
The ska band Catch 22 took its name from the book.
In 2010, Michael Silver coined the phrase "The Environmentalism Catch-22" to describe the dilemma faced by the environmental movement which both supports a green technology future reliant on solar energy, wind power, electric cars and fuel cells and concurrently opposes the mining of the critical metals from which these technologies are manufactured.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22
- published: 25 Dec 2013
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Joseph Heller speaking at UCLA 4/8/1970
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- Duration: 96:12
- Updated: 29 Jan 2014
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From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013.
The views and ideas expressed in these videos are not necessarily shared by th...
From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013.
The views and ideas expressed in these videos are not necessarily shared by the University of California, or by the UCLA Communication Studies Department.
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From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013.
The views and ideas expressed in these videos are not necessarily shared by the University of California, or by the UCLA Communication Studies Department.
- published: 29 Jan 2014
- views: 2574
Kurt Vonnegut & Joseph Heller War Experience: Battle of the Bulge, Bombing Raids, VE Day (1995)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 103:22
- Updated: 14 Dec 2013
- views: 46493
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 -- 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wal...
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 -- 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard and became the costliest battle in terms of casualties for the United States, whose forces bore the brunt of the attack. It also severely depleted Germany's war-making resources.
The battle was known by different names. The Germans referred to it as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein ("Operation Watch on the Rhine"), while the French named it the Bataille des Ardennes ("Battle of the Ardennes"). The Allies called it the Ardennes Counteroffensive. The phrase "Battle of the Bulge" was coined by contemporary press to describe the way the Allied front line bulged inward on wartime news maps and became the best known name for the battle.
The German offensive was supported by several subordinate operations known as Unternehmen Bodenplatte, Greif, and Währung. Germany's goal for these operations was to split the British and American Allied line in half, capture Antwerp, and then proceed to encircle and destroy four Allied armies, forcing the Western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis Powers' favour. Once that was accomplished, Hitler could fully concentrate on the eastern theatre of war.
The offensive was planned with the utmost secrecy, minimizing radio traffic and moving troops and equipment under cover of darkness. The Third U.S. Army's intelligence staff predicted a major German offensive, and Ultra indicated that a "substantial and offensive" operation was expected or "in the wind", although a precise date or point of attack could not be given. Aircraft movement from the Russian Front and transport of forces by rail, both to the Ardennes, was noticed but not acted upon, according to a report later written by Peter Calvocoressi and F. L. Lucas at the codebreaking centre Bletchley Park.
Near-complete surprise was achieved by a combination of Allied overconfidence, preoccupation with Allied offensive plans, and poor aerial reconnaissance. The Germans attacked a weakly defended section of the Allied line, taking advantage of heavily overcast weather conditions, which grounded the Allies' overwhelmingly superior air forces. Fierce resistance on the northern shoulder of the offensive around Elsenborn Ridge and in the south around Bastogne blocked German access to key roads to the northwest and west that they counted on for success; columns that were supposed to advance along parallel routes found themselves on the same roads. This and terrain that favoured the defenders threw the German advance behind schedule and allowed the Allies to reinforce the thinly placed troops. Improved weather conditions permitted air attacks on German forces and supply lines, which sealed the failure of the offensive. In the wake of the defeat, many experienced German units were left severely depleted of men and equipment, as survivors retreated to the defenses of the Siegfried Line.
The battle involved about 610,000 American men, of whom some 89,000 were casualties, including 19,000 killed. It was the largest and bloodiest battle fought by the United States in World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_bulge
Victory in Europe Day—known as V-E Day or VE Day—was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (in Commonwealth countries, 7 May 1945) to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe. The formal surrender of the occupying German forces in the Channel Islands was not until 9 May 1945. On 30 April Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin, and so the surrender of Germany was authorized by his successor, President of Germany Karl Dönitz. The administration headed by Dönitz was known as the Flensburg government. The act of military surrender was signed on 7 May in Reims, France, and on 8 May in Berlin, Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VE_day
wn.com/Kurt Vonnegut Joseph Heller War Experience Battle Of The Bulge, Bombing Raids, Ve Day (1995)
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 -- 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard and became the costliest battle in terms of casualties for the United States, whose forces bore the brunt of the attack. It also severely depleted Germany's war-making resources.
The battle was known by different names. The Germans referred to it as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein ("Operation Watch on the Rhine"), while the French named it the Bataille des Ardennes ("Battle of the Ardennes"). The Allies called it the Ardennes Counteroffensive. The phrase "Battle of the Bulge" was coined by contemporary press to describe the way the Allied front line bulged inward on wartime news maps and became the best known name for the battle.
The German offensive was supported by several subordinate operations known as Unternehmen Bodenplatte, Greif, and Währung. Germany's goal for these operations was to split the British and American Allied line in half, capture Antwerp, and then proceed to encircle and destroy four Allied armies, forcing the Western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis Powers' favour. Once that was accomplished, Hitler could fully concentrate on the eastern theatre of war.
The offensive was planned with the utmost secrecy, minimizing radio traffic and moving troops and equipment under cover of darkness. The Third U.S. Army's intelligence staff predicted a major German offensive, and Ultra indicated that a "substantial and offensive" operation was expected or "in the wind", although a precise date or point of attack could not be given. Aircraft movement from the Russian Front and transport of forces by rail, both to the Ardennes, was noticed but not acted upon, according to a report later written by Peter Calvocoressi and F. L. Lucas at the codebreaking centre Bletchley Park.
Near-complete surprise was achieved by a combination of Allied overconfidence, preoccupation with Allied offensive plans, and poor aerial reconnaissance. The Germans attacked a weakly defended section of the Allied line, taking advantage of heavily overcast weather conditions, which grounded the Allies' overwhelmingly superior air forces. Fierce resistance on the northern shoulder of the offensive around Elsenborn Ridge and in the south around Bastogne blocked German access to key roads to the northwest and west that they counted on for success; columns that were supposed to advance along parallel routes found themselves on the same roads. This and terrain that favoured the defenders threw the German advance behind schedule and allowed the Allies to reinforce the thinly placed troops. Improved weather conditions permitted air attacks on German forces and supply lines, which sealed the failure of the offensive. In the wake of the defeat, many experienced German units were left severely depleted of men and equipment, as survivors retreated to the defenses of the Siegfried Line.
The battle involved about 610,000 American men, of whom some 89,000 were casualties, including 19,000 killed. It was the largest and bloodiest battle fought by the United States in World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_bulge
Victory in Europe Day—known as V-E Day or VE Day—was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (in Commonwealth countries, 7 May 1945) to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe. The formal surrender of the occupying German forces in the Channel Islands was not until 9 May 1945. On 30 April Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin, and so the surrender of Germany was authorized by his successor, President of Germany Karl Dönitz. The administration headed by Dönitz was known as the Flensburg government. The act of military surrender was signed on 7 May in Reims, France, and on 8 May in Berlin, Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VE_day
- published: 14 Dec 2013
- views: 46493
William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut & Joseph Heller: War and Racism in American Culture (1997)
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- Duration: 91:59
- Updated: 21 Dec 2013
- views: 8098
William Clark Styron, Jr. (June 11, 1925 -- November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.
For much of his...
William Clark Styron, Jr. (June 11, 1925 -- November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.
For much of his career, Styron was best known for his novels, including:
Lie Down in Darkness (1951), his acclaimed first novel, published at age 26;
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt;
Sophie's Choice (1979), a story "told through the eyes of a young aspiring writer from the South, about a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and her brilliant but troubled Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn".
In 1985, he suffered his most serious bout with depression. Out of this grave and menacing experience, he was later able to write the memoir Darkness Visible (1990), the work Styron became best known for during the last two decades of his life.
In an episode of the television series Cheers titled "Thanksgiving Orphans" (this episode first aired in 1986), Styron is mentioned as an esteemed guest of a Thanksgiving party hosted by one of Diane Chambers' literature professors. Styron and other guests at the party are expected to recreate the first Thanksgiving.
Styron appears as himself in the 1993 movie Naked in New York
Styron's Darkness Visible was part of the plot of the 2013 film, Side Effects, a crime thriller about depression.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Styron
Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 -- December 12, 1999) was an American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. The title of one of his works, Catch-22, entered the English lexicon to refer to a vicious circle wherein an absurd, no-win choice, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility, and regardless of choice, a same negative outcome is a certainty. Although he is remembered primarily for Catch-22, his other works center on the lives of various members of the middle class and remain examples of modern satire.
Joseph Heller was born in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, the son of poor Jewish parents, Lena and Isaac Donald Heller, from Russia. Even as a child, he loved to write; as a teenager, he wrote a story about the Russian invasion of Finland and sent it to New York Daily News, which rejected it. At least one scholar suggests that he knew that he wanted to become a writer, after recalling that he received a children's version of the Iliad when he was ten. After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1941, Heller spent the next year working as a blacksmith's apprentice, a messenger boy, and a filing clerk. In 1942, at age 19, he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps. Two years later he was sent to the Italian Front, where he flew 60 combat missions as a B-25 bombardier. His Unit was the 488th Bombardment Squadron, 340th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force. Heller later remembered the war as "fun in the beginning... You got the feeling that there was something glorious about it." On his return home he "felt like a hero... People think it quite remarkable that I was in combat in an airplane and I flew sixty missions even though I tell them that the missions were largely milk runs." ("Milk runs" were combat missions, but mostly uneventful due to a lack of intense opposition from enemy anti-aircraft artillery or fighters.)
After the war, Heller studied English at the University of Southern California and NYU on the G.I. Bill. In 1949, he received his M.A. in English from Columbia University. Following his graduation, he spent a year as a Fulbright scholar at St Catherine's College, Oxford. After returning home, he taught composition at Pennsylvania State University for two years. He also taught fiction and dramatic writing at Yale. He then briefly worked for Time Inc., before taking a job as a copywriter at a small advertising agency, where he worked alongside future novelist Mary Higgins Clark. At home, Heller wrote. He was first published in 1948, when The Atlantic ran one of his short stories. That first story nearly won the "Atlantic First."
He was married to Shirley Held from 1945 to 1981 and they had two children, Erica (born 1952) and Ted (born 1956).
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (/ˈvɒnɨɡət/; November 11, 1922 -- April 11, 2007) was an American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973) blend satire, gallows humor, and science fiction. As a citizen he was a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a critical pacifist intellectual. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.
The New York Times headline at the time of Vonnegut's passing called Vonnegut "the counterculture's novelist."
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William Clark Styron, Jr. (June 11, 1925 -- November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.
For much of his career, Styron was best known for his novels, including:
Lie Down in Darkness (1951), his acclaimed first novel, published at age 26;
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt;
Sophie's Choice (1979), a story "told through the eyes of a young aspiring writer from the South, about a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and her brilliant but troubled Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn".
In 1985, he suffered his most serious bout with depression. Out of this grave and menacing experience, he was later able to write the memoir Darkness Visible (1990), the work Styron became best known for during the last two decades of his life.
In an episode of the television series Cheers titled "Thanksgiving Orphans" (this episode first aired in 1986), Styron is mentioned as an esteemed guest of a Thanksgiving party hosted by one of Diane Chambers' literature professors. Styron and other guests at the party are expected to recreate the first Thanksgiving.
Styron appears as himself in the 1993 movie Naked in New York
Styron's Darkness Visible was part of the plot of the 2013 film, Side Effects, a crime thriller about depression.
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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 -- December 12, 1999) was an American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. The title of one of his works, Catch-22, entered the English lexicon to refer to a vicious circle wherein an absurd, no-win choice, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility, and regardless of choice, a same negative outcome is a certainty. Although he is remembered primarily for Catch-22, his other works center on the lives of various members of the middle class and remain examples of modern satire.
Joseph Heller was born in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, the son of poor Jewish parents, Lena and Isaac Donald Heller, from Russia. Even as a child, he loved to write; as a teenager, he wrote a story about the Russian invasion of Finland and sent it to New York Daily News, which rejected it. At least one scholar suggests that he knew that he wanted to become a writer, after recalling that he received a children's version of the Iliad when he was ten. After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1941, Heller spent the next year working as a blacksmith's apprentice, a messenger boy, and a filing clerk. In 1942, at age 19, he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps. Two years later he was sent to the Italian Front, where he flew 60 combat missions as a B-25 bombardier. His Unit was the 488th Bombardment Squadron, 340th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force. Heller later remembered the war as "fun in the beginning... You got the feeling that there was something glorious about it." On his return home he "felt like a hero... People think it quite remarkable that I was in combat in an airplane and I flew sixty missions even though I tell them that the missions were largely milk runs." ("Milk runs" were combat missions, but mostly uneventful due to a lack of intense opposition from enemy anti-aircraft artillery or fighters.)
After the war, Heller studied English at the University of Southern California and NYU on the G.I. Bill. In 1949, he received his M.A. in English from Columbia University. Following his graduation, he spent a year as a Fulbright scholar at St Catherine's College, Oxford. After returning home, he taught composition at Pennsylvania State University for two years. He also taught fiction and dramatic writing at Yale. He then briefly worked for Time Inc., before taking a job as a copywriter at a small advertising agency, where he worked alongside future novelist Mary Higgins Clark. At home, Heller wrote. He was first published in 1948, when The Atlantic ran one of his short stories. That first story nearly won the "Atlantic First."
He was married to Shirley Held from 1945 to 1981 and they had two children, Erica (born 1952) and Ted (born 1956).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Heller
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (/ˈvɒnɨɡət/; November 11, 1922 -- April 11, 2007) was an American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973) blend satire, gallows humor, and science fiction. As a citizen he was a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a critical pacifist intellectual. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.
The New York Times headline at the time of Vonnegut's passing called Vonnegut "the counterculture's novelist."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut
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50 years after it was first written Joseph Heller's Catch-22 is still the definitve word on the madness of war. Hilarious, unforgettable and tragic.
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50 years after it was first written Joseph Heller's Catch-22 is still the definitve word on the madness of war. Hilarious, unforgettable and tragic.
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50 years after it was first written Joseph Heller's Catch-22 is still the definitve word on the madness of war. Hilarious, unforgettable and tragic.
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Catch 22 Audiobook | Joseph Heller Audiobook Part 1
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Catch-22 is a satirical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. It is frequently cited as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century.[2] It uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate storylines are out of sequence so that the timeline develops along with the plot.
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Catch-22 is a satirical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. It is frequently cited as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century.[2] It uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate storylines are out of sequence so that the timeline develops along with the plot.
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Joseph Heller on Bookworm
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Joseph Heller exclusive interview made by Szabo Stein Imre on Catch 22, Closing Time, on the public affairs of th USA
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Joseph Heller & Stephen Banker, ca. 1975
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Novelist Joseph Heller interviewed by Stephen Banker, around 1975 (after publication of 'Something Happened' and before publication of 'Good as Gold'). To learn...
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The Writing of Catch-22: Joseph Heller on His Childhood and Experiences in World War II (1998)
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Kurt Vonnegut & Joseph Heller War Experience: Battle of the Bulge, Bombing Raids, VE Day (1995)
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William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut & Joseph Heller: War and Racism in American Culture (1997)
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[VIDEO]: Texas Woman Awakens From Surgery With British Accent
Edit WorldNews.com 23 Jun 2016
Lisa Alamia, a mother of three, was scheduled for surgery to fix an overbite in December 2015. The native-born Texan, who claims to have never left the U.S. with the exception of a trip to Mexico several years ago, had successful surgery and woke up with an unexpected side effect – a British accent, ABC News reported Thursday. Her doctor thought swelling was causing the condition ... – WN.com, Jack Durschlag. ....
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[VIDEO]: Gunman Killed After Allegedly Taking Hostages At German Cinema
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Multiple media reports say a masked gunman who entered a cinema complex in the western German city of Viernheim in the state of Hessen and reportedly held hostages has been killed.State Interior Minister Peter Beuth told parliament police stormed the Knopolis complex near Frankfurt after reports of shots fired shot the as-yet unidentified gunman dead, the Belfast Telegraph reported....
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Is Donald Trump right about Hillary Clinton?
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(CNN)Donald Trump's much-anticipated speech attacking Hillary Clinton Wednesday seemed more designed to reassure the candidate's Republican base than to broaden his appeal to independents or Democrats ... For example, it's one thing to question the Obama administration's foreign policy, and quite another to leap to Trump's overheated conclusion ... Her decisions spread death, destruction and terrorism everywhere she touched.". JUST WATCHED ... ....
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Source: VW To Pay $10.2 Billion To Settle US Emissions Scandal
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One of the sources said the agreement was tentative and could change by the time terms are officially announced by the judge Tuesday.The bulk of the cash would be used to fix the cars, buy them back and compensate owners, the report said ... 18, 2015, or keeping the cars and letting the company repair them....
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Britain and the EU: the story of a very rocky marriage
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The UK referendum on whether to stay in the EU is the culmination of 70 years of a love/hate relationship. @jonhenley. Rejection and flirtation. When the six founding members of the European Economic Community (France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) signed the in 1957 and asked Britain whether it fancied hanging out to see what might happen, Britain said thanks, but no thanks ... Twitter ... Doubts and drama ... ....
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The beginning of the end and other stories
Edit Indian Express 19 Jun 2016
In the US, Patterson is targeting the population spurning books in favour of social media, viral videos, TV and gaming. The eagerly awaited and equally dreaded BookShots are here. You await them or dread them according to who you are ... Ray Bradbury, Haruki Murakami, Roald Dahl, Joseph Heller, Stephen King, Damon Knight… Exemplars of feminist writing like Ursula K Le Guin and Margaret Atwood have surprised by writing for Playboy, too ... ....
James Patterson Would Like You to Read
Edit New Yorker 09 Jun 2016
In the tradition of Don DeLillo, Salman Rushdie, and Joseph Heller, James Patterson drafted his early books by moonlight while holding a day job as an advertising copywriter ... Walter Thompson, where the storytellers stoke mass desire on an industrial scale ... ....
You Know How It Is
Edit Khaleej Times 09 Jun 2016
Did you know that the original title of the Joseph Heller novel Catch-22 was Catch 18? (The title was changed to avoid confusion with the Leon Uris novel, Mila 18, which had also been published that year.) Or that the letters YKK on zippers stand for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the largest zipper manufacturer in the world?....
"America Reads” Exhibition to Open June 16 (The Library of Congress)
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(Source. The Library of Congress) ... A Duty-Dance with Death' Laura Ingalls Wilder, 'Little House in the Big Woods' Joseph Smith, 'The Book of Mormon' Willa Cather, 'My Ántonia' Alex Haley, 'Roots ... D ... Frank Baum, 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' Herman Melville, 'Moby-Dick; or, the Whale' Dale Carnegie, 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' Joseph Heller, 'Catch-22' Walt Whitman, 'Leaves of Grass' Benjamin Spock, 'Baby and Child Care'....
Do Clinton, Trump need Henry Kissinger?
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(CNN)Donald Trump is pivoting his way across the political landscape. Rolling out Supreme Court picks to appease the right, reaching out to GOP donors, trying to woo House Speaker Paul Ryan ... But this time is different. For one thing, this time Kissinger's Republican preference cannot be taken for granted ... Timothy Stanley ... Read More ... foreign policy. JUST WATCHED ... The novelist Joseph Heller called him "an odious schlump who made war gladly." ... ....
Wednesday’s best TV: Weight for Love, Gomorrah, Deepcut: Behind the Barbed Wire
Edit The Guardian 18 May 2016
The BBC explores how relationships affect eating habits, as the mafia drama continues. Plus. a grim account of suspicious deaths at Deepcut army barracks. Handmade on the Silk Road. 7.30pm, BBC4 ... Not the Daniel Craig one; this is the 60s spy spoof based very loosely on Ian Fleming’s novel and featuring a world-conquering alliance of directors, Hollywood stars and writers (Billy Wilder, Ben Hecht and Joseph Heller apparently among them) ... ....
Counting Down the 50 Craziest Moments of the Election Cycle: Nos. 30-21
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Baby Hitler. Miracle Max. Popeye’s organization. Basketball ring. The 2016 presidential election is like a Joseph Heller novel mating with a Kurt Vonnegut Jr. novel and then being raised by Hunter S. Thompson. If you need a refresher on where we’re at in our countdown of the 50 Craziest Moments so far, check out the first two installments, Nos. 50-41 and Nos. 40-31. Below is our third, Nos. 30-21. 30. It Really Is No Country for Old Men ... 29 ... 26 ... 25....
Urinals and Stalls as the New Battleground: Could the Problem of the 21st Century Be ...
Edit CounterPunch 18 May 2016
I once published a black humor short story in Penthouse magazine about prostitution in Vietnam called “Polyorifice Enterprises.” I was weaned on literature reading Henry Miller and Joseph Heller, so my story was vulgar; it also had quite nice Shakespearian couplets that my infantry soldier back from the boonies in Pleiku expounded heartily as he ......
San Joaquin Valley farmer David Mas Masumoto gets ready to let go
Edit Sacramento Bee 16 May 2016
David Mas Masumoto has made a second career from writing philosophically about his life and those of his family as played out on their 80-acre organic farm in the San Joaquin Valley ... It was the title of choice for the Sacramento Public Library’s inaugural One Book Sacramento program in 2005 ... Gulli has a talent for finding and publishing lost writings by famous authors, including Joseph Heller, Agatha Christie and Dashiell Hammett ... ....
Glasgow Warriors face up to tough task at Connacht
Edit Scotsman 15 May 2016
As admirers of Joseph Heller will quickly recognise, Glasgow were in a Catch 22 situation all along. They desperately needed to avoid a treacherous looking semi-final at Connacht’s Sportsground but the only way to do so was by winning a treacherous looking last match of the season… at the Sportsground ... They not only have to face down the team of the season but also “the stat” ... “We were so desperate to get a home semi-final ... ....
Does the president think his own war is illegal?
Edit New York Post 12 May 2016
Call it “Catch-23.”. The lawsuit that a US Army captain just filed against President Obama, alleging that the war against ISIS is illegal, highlights a situation almost as absurd as Joseph Heller’s novel about World War II ... That’s what I call “Catch-23.” Joseph Heller couldn’t have thought of a plot so bizarre — a president who’d rather not get clear authority for the current conflict unless he gets to tie his successors’ hands....
New digital imprint features works by Heller, Bradbury
Edit St Louis Post-Dispatch 11 May 2016
NEW YORK (AP) — Little known short stories by Tennessee Williams, Joseph Heller and Ray Bradbury are among the works being offered through a new digital imprint ... ....
The gap between myth and reality in Israel's history
Edit The National 01 May 2016
In two weeks, Palestinians around the world will commemorate their forced displacement in 1948, known as the Nakba. Falling just five days after Israel's independence day, Nakba day has become a global event on which Israel's foundation myths are revisited, rejected and recast. Every nation has foundation myths ... Israel's foundation myths are no different ... According to the historian Joseph Heller in his book, The Stern Gang ... On Twitter....
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