Tag Archives: Joseph Heller

Waugh Saga

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Novelist Lars Walker has posted a review of Sword of Honour on internet book site Brandywine Books . Walker has written several novels in what looks like it would be called the Norse warrior saga genre and so has an … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh and Catch-22

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Today’s Guardian adds Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel Catch-22 to its list of the 100 Best Novels, joining Scoop which was named in an earlier article. The article explains that Robert Gottlieb, the book’s editor at Simon & Schuster, tried to obtain … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh’s review of Catch-22

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Antony F. P. Vickery

In 1961, soliciting a blurb for the coming release of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, an employee of its publisher Simon & Schuster sent an advance copy to Evelyn Waugh. His reply to Miss Bourne begins: Thank you for sending me Catch … Continue reading →

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