Heller RIP

[MalignD at aol.com]

Sad news.

It happens, coincidentally, that I'm right now rereading Something Happened, 
a marvelous, funny, and pitilessly detailed dissection of the American male 
psyche I first read many years ago when it was considered a long-awaited 
failure.

He'll be remembered mostly as the author of Catch 22, but his entire body of 
work is well worth reading.  Good As Gold (along with Seymour Hersch's The 
Price of Power) is a must-read for anyone with lingering (or ever-ready) 
antipathies toward Henry Kissinger ("He's no Jew!").

Plus he was an all-round good guy and a mensch.  (Heller, that is; not the 
war crminal.)