Joseph Heller

It reminded me quite a bit of Catch 22 and just as I was thinking that to myself, the author mentions the name Joseph Heller!

Book Club: Absurdistan « Knitting Clio 2007

"The question is how to disentangle the link between banks and sovereigns," said Gallo, who described the situation as a Catch-22, referring to Joseph Heller's 1961 novel that describes the no-win situation faced by a World War II pilot trying to avoid duty.

BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

To paraphrase Joseph Heller's "Catch-22," everybody works for Blackwater. "

How corrupt, incompetent big bro 43 is! 2007

More than sixty years after the end of the war, the work of writers such as Joseph Heller, Howard Nemerov, Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, Randall Jarrell, and Norman Mailer continue to be read in graduate seminars, book clubs, and high school classrooms across the country.

VQR 2010

More than sixty years after the end of the war, the work of writers such as Joseph Heller, Howard Nemerov, Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, Randall Jarrell, and Norman Mailer continue to be read in graduate seminars, book clubs, and high school classrooms across the country.

VQR 2010

Although I've always loved literature, books were a luxury I treated myself to sparingly, but I had been a member of the Book - of - the-Month Club for several years, getting things such as Joseph Heller's

NPR Topics: News 2010

Although I've always loved literature, books were a luxury I treated myself to sparingly, but I had been a member of the Book - of - the-Month Club for several years, getting things such as Joseph Heller's

NPR Topics: News 2010

Although I've always loved literature, books were a luxury I treated myself to sparingly, but I had been a member of the Book - of - the-Month Club for several years, getting things such as Joseph Heller's

NPR Topics: News 2010

Mike Follows, Willenhall West Midlands What phrase did we use for "It's a Catch-22 situation" before Joseph Heller wrote the novel?

Notes and queries: Why are atoms so small? That's some catch, that Catch-22; The problem with duvet zips; What about the jellyfish? 2011

Back in the 70s I met Joseph Heller at a party in New York and asked him what phrase he used before catch-22.

Notes and queries: What if the polar bears moved south? Was the vimana the first flying machine? Morton's Fork – the original catch-22? 2011