Joseph Heller, Speed Vogel interview
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AnonymousJanuary 2, 2007 at 10:00 pm
There’s an interview with the authors of [I]No Laughing Matter[/I] available at [b]http://wiredforbooks.org/josephheller/[/b] You’ll require a RealNetworks player to listen to it.
The book is about Heller’s bout with Guillain-Barre, and his famous friends and visitors while he was recovering. (He may be familiar as the author of [i]Catch-22[/i] .)
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AnonymousJanuary 3, 2007 at 10:41 am
Heller is probably most famous as the author of [i]Catch-22[/i], which was later made into a movie. If you’ve ever heard the phrase “catch-22” it’s because the title of the book has become famous all by itself.
Heller is of interest to the forum mostly because he’s a famous writer who got Guillain-Barre and wrote a book about it. He was a good writer (he died in 1999), and a humorous one, which makes the book a fun read. His hospital visitors included the comedian Mel Brooks and the actor Dustin Hoffman, among others.
More info about the book can be found here:
[url]http://www.amazon.com/No-Laughing-Matter-Joseph-Heller/dp/0743247175[/url]
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