Essay (pdf): 'Nemeses and MacGuffins: Paranoia as Focal Metaphor in Stanley Elkin, Joseph Heller, and Thomas Pynchon' by D.C. Dougherty. _Review of Contemporary Fiction_ 15.2, 1995, pp. 70-78. Great title, focuses mainly on Elkin but refers briefly to _Lot 49_ and _GR_ (and _Catch-22_ and _Something Happened_). best