George Clooney's Hulu miniseries adaptation of the classic novel Catch-22 is an underrated satire of the absurdity of war and ...

Joseph Heller assembled the manuscript for "Catch-22" from a collection of notes on index cards. The novel began to spring forth, Heller recalled, "when suddenly this line came to me: 'It was love at ...

NEW YORK — Fifty years after the publication of "Catch-22," author Joseph Heller is long dead and his editor has finally gotten around to re-reading it. "I'm happy to report that I love it," Robert ...

Catch-22 made Joseph Heller famous, but it made itself a lot more famous. It was a book so big it broke free of its author, then flattened him like a boulder. His failures were to it as fertilizer.

Most books disappear quickly down the memory hole. Even powerful literary works rarely outlast their generation. The world moves on and last year’s sensation can seem as dated as yesterday’s papers.

Joseph Heller, as the man who wrote, and lived with having written ‘Catch-22’ Fifty-one years ago, nobody used the term "Catch-22" to describe a victim trapped in a contradictory, often bureaucratic, ...

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Students more accustomed to computer screens than manual typewriters are getting a chance to sit at author Joseph Heller’s stained wooden desk and type on the battered ...

This story originally appeared on Mental Floss. Joseph Heller’s 1961 war comedy “Catch-22” is one of the most beloved novels of the 20th century, not to mention one of the funniest. Here are a few ...

As a rule, a novel speaks for itself and its author, but when it comes to Joseph Heller, we are privileged to have an especially intimate source of information about his life and work. In “Yossarian ...

The trouble with writing a truly great first novel — as Walker Percy, Alan Paton and both Charlotte and Emily Bronte, among others, could all attest — is that you spend the rest of your career trying ...