Looking back, looking ahead
Where are the Hellers and Gaddises of yesteryear? The fiftieth anniversary of the 1961 publication of Catch-22 has crept up on us, marked by the publication of the first major biography of the novel’s author, Joseph Heller; after a brief period out-of-print, William Gaddis‘ first two novels, The Recognitions (1955) and J R (1975) will [...]