Tag: Catch-22

According to the Writer’s Almanac:  It’s the birthday of novelist Joseph Heller (books by this author), born in Brooklyn (1923) and best known for the novel Catch-22 (1961), about an American bombardier named John Yossarian. During World War II, Yossarian …

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It’s the 52nd anniversary of the publication of Catch-22, Joseph Heller’s brilliantly satirical anti-war novel.  The story revolves around a bomber pilot who tries to get himself dismissed from World War II by virtue of insanity, but encounters a regulation …

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