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Christopher Buckley On The Legacy Of 'Catch-22'

Christopher Buckley is the author of Losing Mum and Pup and Thank You for Smoking.

October 18, 2011 Fifty years ago this October, Joseph Heller first published his American classic, Catch-22. Heller's friend and fellow writer Christopher Buckley reflects on the novel's impact in the introduction to its 50th-anniversary edition.

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'Catch-22': A Paradox Turns 50 And Still Rings True

Catch-22 cover detail.

October 13, 2011 Joseph Heller's depictions of war turned America's idea of heroism on its head. The irreverent 1961 novel was based on Heller's own experiences in World War II, but it was the anti-authoritarian generation of the Vietnam era that embraced Catch-22 as its own.

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