BIBLIOGRAPHY

FICTION BY JOSEPH HELLER

Catch-22. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961.

Something Happened. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

Good as Gold. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.

God Knows. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.

Picture This. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1988.

Closing Time. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Catch as Catch Can: The Collected Stories and Other Writings. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Park Bucker. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

MEMOIRS BY JOSEPH HELLER

No Laughing Matter, coauthored with Speed Vogel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

PLAYS BY JOSEPH HELLER

We Bombed in New Haven. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968.

Catch-22: A Dramatization. New York: Samuel French, 1971.

Clevinger’s Trial. New York: Samuel French, 1973.

MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAYS BY JOSEPH HELLER

Sex and the Single Girl, with David R. Schwartz. Warner Bros., 1964.

Casino Royale (uncredited). Columbia Pictures, 1967.

Dirty Dingus Magee, with Tom Waldman and Frank Waldman. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1970.

INTERVIEWS WITH JOSEPH HELLER

Sorkin, Adam J., ed. Conversations with Joseph Heller. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.

UNCOLLECTED PROSE BY JOSEPH HELLER

“Too Timid to Damn, Too Stingy to Applaud.” New Republic, July 1962, 23–24, 36.

“How I Found James Bond.” Holiday, June 1967, 123–25.

BOOKS ABOUT JOSEPH HELLER

Bloom, Harold, ed. Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2001.

Craig, David M. Tilting at Mortality: Narrative Strategies in Joseph Heller’s Fiction. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997.

Kiley, Frederick, and Walter McDonald, eds. A “Catch-22” Casebook. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1973.

Merrill, Robert. Joseph Heller. Boston: Twayne, 1987.

Nagel, James, ed. Critical Essays on ‘Catch-22.’ Encino, California: Dickenson, 1974.

———, ed. Critical Essays on Joseph Heller. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984.

Pinsker, Sanford. Understanding Joseph Heller. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.

Potts, Stephen W. From Here to Absurdity: The Moral Battlefields of Joseph Heller. San Bernardino, California: Borgo Press, 1995.

Ruderman, Judith. Joseph Heller. New York: Continuum, 1991.

Scotto, Robert M., ed. Joseph Heller’s Catch-22: A Critical Edition. New York: Delta, 1973.

Seed, David. The Fiction of Joseph Heller: Against the Grain. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.

Woodson, Jon. A Study of Catch-22: Going Around Twice. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.

ONLINE

Setzer, Daniel. “Historical Sources for the Events in Joseph Heller’s Novel, Catch-22. home.comcast.net/~dhsetzer.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ARTICLES

Bruccoli, Matthew J., and Park Bucker, eds. Joseph Heller: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002.

Eller, Jonathan R. “Catching a Market: The Publishing History of Catch-22.” Prospects 17 (1992): 475–525.

Keegan, Brenda M. Joseph Heller: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.

Scotto, Robert M. Three Contemporary Novelists: An Annotated Bibliography of Works by and about John Hawkes, Joseph Heller, and Thomas Pynchon. New York: Garland, 1977.

Weixmann, Joseph. “A Bibliography of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22.” Bulletins of Bibliography 31 (1974): 32–37.

SELECTED CRITICAL BOOKS WITH SECTIONS OR CHAPTERS ON JOSEPH HELLER

Aichinger, Peter. The American Soldier in Fiction, 1880–1963. Des Moines: Iowa State University Press, 1975.

Bier, Jesse. The Rise and Fall of American Humor. New York: Henry Holt, 1968.

Bryant, Jerry H. The Open Decision: The Contemporary American Novel and Its Intellectual Background. New York: Free Press, 1970.

Burgess, Anthony. The Novel Now: A Guide to Contemporary Fiction. New York: W. W. Norton, 1967.

Dickstein, Morris. Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945–1970. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Harris, Charles B. Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd. New Haven: College and University Press, 1971.

Hauck, Richard Boyd. A Cheerful Nihilism: Confidence and the Absurd in American Humorous Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971.

Karl, Frederick. American Fictions 1940–1980. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.

Kazin, Alfred. Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.

Kostelanetz, Richard, ed. On Contemporary Literature. New York: Avon, 1964.

Miller, Wayne Charles. An Armed America, Its Face in Fiction: A History of the American Military Novel. New York: New York University Press, 1970.

Moore, Harry T., ed. Contemporary American Novelists. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965.

Olderman, Raymond M. Beyond the Waste Land: The American Novel in the 1960’s. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.

Podhoretz, Norman. Doings and Undoings: The Fifties and After in American Writing. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1964.

Richter, D. H. Fable’s End: Completeness and Closure in Rhetorical Fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Scott, Nathan A., ed. Adversity and Grace: Studies in Recent American Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

Tanner, Tony. City of Words: American Fiction, 1950–1970. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.

SELECTED CRITICAL ARTICLES ON JOSEPH HELLER

Aldridge, John W. “The Deceits of Black Humor.” Harpers, March 1979, 115–18.

Aubrey, James R. “Heller’s ‘Parody on Hemingway’ in Catch-22.” Studies in Contemporary Satire 17 (1990): 1–5.

———. “Major –de Coverly’s Name in Catch-22.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 18, no. 1 (1988): 2–3.

Beidler, Philip. “Mr. Roberts and American Remembering; or, Why Major Major Major Major Looks Like Henry Fonda.” Journal of American Studies 30, no. 1 (1996): 47.

Bertonneau, Thomas F. “The Mind Bound Round: Language and Reality in Heller’s Catch-22.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 15 (1996): 29–41.

Blues, Thomas. “The Moral Structure of Catch-22.” Studies in the Novel 3 (Spring 1971): 64–97.

Bradbury, Malcolm. Introduction to Catch-22. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Burhans, Clinton S., Jr. “Spindrift and the Sea: Structural Patterns and Unifying Elements in Catch-22.” Twentieth Century Literature 19 (1973): 239–50.

Caciedo, Alberto. “You Must Remember This: Trauma and Memory in Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 46, no. 4 (2005): 357–68.

Cheuse, Alan. “Laughing on the Outside.” Studies on the Left 3 (1963): 81–87.

Costa, Richard Howard. “Notes from a Dark Heller: Bob Slocum and the Underground Man.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 23, no. 2 (1981): 159–82.

Craig, David. “Rewriting a Classic and Thinking about a Life: Joseph Heller’s Closing Time.” CEA Critic 58, no. 3 (1996): 15–30.

Davis, Gary W. “Catch-22 and the Language of Discontinuity.” Novel 12, no. 1 (1978): 66–77.

Day, Douglas. “Catch-22: A Manifesto for Anarchists.” Carolina Quarterly 15, no. 3 (1963): 86–92.

Doskow, Minna. “The Night Journey in Catch-22.” Twentieth Century Literature 12 (1967): 186–93.

Frank, Mike. “Eros and Thanatos in Catch-22.” Canadian Review of American Studies 7 (1976): 77–87.

Friedman, John, and Judith Ruderman. “Joseph Heller and the ‘Real’ King David.” Judaism 36, no. 3 (1987): 296–301.

Furlani, Andre. “‘Brisk Socratic Dialogues’: Elenctic Rhetoric in Joseph Heller’s Something Happened.” Narrative 3, no. 3 (1995): 252–70.

Galloway, David. “Clown and Saint: The Hero in Current American Fiction.” Critique 7, no. 3 (1965): 46–65.

Gaukroger, Doug. “Time Structure in Catch-22.” Studies in Modern Fiction 12, no. 2 (1970): 70–85.

Granger, Jamie. “Love During Wartime: Adam and Eve in Catch-22.” Pleiades 14, no. 2 (1994): 79–85.

Green, Daniel. “A World Worth Laughing At: Catch-22 and the Humor of Black Humor.” Studies in the Novel 27, no. 2 (1995): 186–96.

Greenfield, Josh. “22 Was Funnier Than 14.” New York Times Book Review, March 3, 1968, 1, 49–51, 53.

Henry, G. B. McK. “Significant Corn: Catch-22.” Melbourne Critical Review 9 (1966): 133–44.

Hewes, Henry. “A Game for Our Sons.” The Saturday Review, November 2, 1968, 53.

Hidalgo-Dowling, Laura. “Negation as a Stylistic Feature in Catch-22: A Corpus Study.” Style 37, no. 3 (2003): 318–41.

Kazin, Alfred. “The War Novel from Mailer to Vonnegut.” The Saturday Review, February 6, 1971, 13–15, 36.

Kennard, Jean E. “Joseph Heller: At War with Absurdity.” Mosaic 4, no. 3 (1971): 75–87.

Klemptner, Susan S. “A Permanent Game of Excuses: Determinism in Heller’s Something Happened.” Modern Fiction Studies 24 (1978–1979): 550–56.

LeClair, Thomas. “Death and Black Humor.” Critique 17, no. 1 (1975): 5–40.

———. “Joseph Heller, Something Happened, and the Art of Excess.” Studies in American Fiction 9, no. 2 (1981): 245–60.

Lowin, Joseph. “The Jewish Art of Joseph Heller.” Jewish Book Annual 43 (1985–1986): 141–53.

McDonald, James L. “I See Everything Twice: The Structure of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22.” University Review 34 (1968): 175–80.

Mellard, James M. “Catch-22: Déjà Vu and the Labyrinth of Memory.” Bucknell Review 16 (1968): 29–44.

Merrill, Robert. “The Structure and Meaning of Catch-22.” Studies in American Fiction 14, no. 2 (1986): 139–52.

Merrill, Robert, and John L. Simons. “Snowden’s Ghost: The Waking Nightmare of Mike Nichols’s Catch-22.” New Orleans Review 15, no. 2 (1988): 96–104.

Miller, Wayne C. “Ethnic Identity as Moral Focus: A Reading of Joseph Heller’s Good as Gold.” MELUS 6, no. 3 (1979): 3–17.

Monk, Donald. “An Experiment in Therapy: A Study of Catch-22.” London Review 2 (1967): 12–19.

Moore, Michael. “Pathological Communication Patterns in Heller’s ‘Catch-22.’” ETC: A Review of General Semantics, December 22, 1995. Posted online at freelibrary.com.

Muste, John M. “Better to Die Laughing: The War Novels of Joseph Heller and John Ashmead.” Critique 5, no. 2 (1962): 16–27.

Nagel, James. “The Catch-22 Note Cards.” Studies in the Novel 8 (1976): 394–405.

———. “Joseph Heller and the University.” College Literature 10, no. 1 (1983): 16–27.

Nelson, Thomas Allen. “Theme and Structure in Catch-22.” Renascence 23, no. 4 (1971): 173–82.

Nolan, Charles J., Jr. “Heller’s Small Debt to Hemingway.” The Hemingway Review 9, no. 1 (1989): 77–81.

Pinsker, Sanford. “Once More into the Breach: Joseph Heller Gives Catch-22 a Second Act.” Topic: A Journal of the Liberal Arts 50 (2000): 28–39.

Pearson, Carol. “Catch-22 and the Debasement of Language.” CEA Critic 38, no. 4 (1976): 30–35.

Percy, Walker. “The State of the Novel: Dying Art or New Science?” Michigan Quarterly Review 16 (1977): 359–73.

Pletcher, Robert. “Overcoming the ‘Catch-22’ of Institutional Satire: Joseph Heller’s ‘Surrealistic’ Characters.” Studies in Contemporary Satire 15 (1988): 220–27.

Protherough, Robert. “The Sanity of Catch-22.” Human World 3 (1971): 59–70.

Raeburn, John. “Catch-22 and the Culture of the 1950s.” American Studies in Scandinavia 25, no. 2 (1993): 119–28.

Robertson, Joan. “They’re After Everyone: Heller’s ‘Catch-22’ and the Cold War.” CLIO 19, no. 1 (1989): 41–50.

Ruderman, Judith. “Upside-Down in Good as Gold: Moishe Kapoyer as Muse.” Yiddish 4 (1984): 55–63.

Savu, Laura Elena. “‘This Book of Ours’: The Crisis of Authorship and Joseph Heller’s Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man.” Intertexts 7, no. 1 (2003): 71–89.

Scoggins, Michael C. “Joseph Heller’s Combat Experiences in Catch-22.” War, Literature, and the Arts 15, nos. 1 and 2 (2003): 213–37.

Searles, George J. “Something Happened: A New Direction for Joseph Heller.” Critique 18, no. 3 (1977): 74–82.

Seltzer, Leon F. “Milo’s Culpable Innocence: Absurdity as Moral Insanity in Catch-22.” Papers on Language and Literature 15, no. 3 (1979): 290–310.

Sniderman, Stephen L. “It Was All Yossarian’s Fault: Power and Responsibility in Catch-22.” Twentieth Century Literature 19, no. 4 (1973): 251–58.

Solomon, Eric. “From Christ in Flanders to Catch-22: An Approach to War Fiction.” Texas Studies in Language and Literature 11 (1969): 851–66.

Solomon, Jan. “The Structure of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22.” Critique 9, no. 2 (1967): 46–67.

Stern, Frederick C. “Heller’s Hell: Heller’s Later Fiction, Jewishness, and the Liberal Imagination.” MELUS 15, no. 4 (1988): 15–37.

Strehle, Susan. “Slocum’s Parenthetical Tic: Style as Metaphor in Something Happened.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 7, no. 5 (1977): 9–10.

———. “‘A Permanent Game of Excuses’: Determinism in Heller’s Something Happened.” Modern Fiction Studies 24, no. 4 (1978–1979): 550–56.

Toman, Marshall. “The Political Satire in Joseph Heller’s Good as Gold.” Studies in Contemporary Satire 17 (1990): 6–14.

———. “Good as Gold and Heller’s Family Ethic.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 10, no. 2 (1991): 211–24.

Tucker, Lindsey. “Entropy and Information Theory in Heller’s Something Happened.” Contemporary Literature (1984): 323–40.

Tyson, Lois. “Joseph Heller’s Something Happened: The Commodification of Consciousness and the Postmodern Flight from Inwardness.” CEA Critic 54, no. 2 (1992): 37–51.

Wain, John. “A New Novel about Old Troubles.” Critical Quarterly 5, no. 2 (1963): 168–173.

Way, Brian. “Formal Experiment and Social Discontent: Joseph Heller’s Catch-22.” Journal of American Studies 2 (1968): 253–70.