The morning after the opening sentence took shape, Heller “arrived at work”—at the Merrill Anderson Company—“with my pastry and container of coffee and a mind brimming with ideas, and immediately in longhand put down on a pad the first chapter of an intended novel.” The handwritten manuscript totaled about 20 pages. He titled it Catch-18. The year was 1953.
Read the rest of the Vanity Fair article here.
[HT: Arts & Letters Daily]
Friday, July 29, 2011
Behind "Catch-22"
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