Conversations with Joseph Heller

Spanning three decades of his literary career from Catch-22 to comments on the Persian Gulf War Conversations with Joseph Heller contains a selection of the most significant informative and interesting interviews with one of America''s foremost novelists these interviews Heller reveals his interest in the structure effects and themes of his works his satirical purposes the influences upon him his writing methods his political opinions and a host of other topics that challenge and engage his lively and reflective mindcluded here are interviews from student newspapers and university magazines one interview previously not published and two highly comic anti-interviews with close friends Mel Brooks and George Mandel.Also included are two largely serious interviews with his friends Robert Alan Aurthur and Barbara Gelb. Also in this collection are Heller''s conversations with authors Martin Amis and George Plimpton and a probing exchange with Bill Moyers about democracy politics and Heller''s Picture This. Among the interviews are his talks with Sam Merrill in Playboy Paul Krassner of The Realist and Chet Flippo of Rolling Stone.