Was Heller & V. thread

[Jeff Sunbury]

New World Writing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Writing> is one
connecting link btwn. Heller and Pynchon. It was owned by Lippincott. The
initial chapter  oof Catch-22 was published in 1955 as "Catch-18", in Issue
7 of New World Writing. Heller's agent was "the famous Candida Donadio".
Pynchon's short story "Low-lands" was first published in Issue 16 of New
World Writing in March 1960. And Lippincott is where Corlies Smith and
Faith Sale worked and co-edited V. When sorting out the mind-set of
writers/novelists during the pre-Kennedy Assassination years, I would
add Robert
Stone <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stone_(novelist)> who wrote a
defining memoir/autobiography titled Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
(2007). Stone was born in Brooklyn the same year as Pynchon, dropped out of
high school, did a 4-year stint in the Navy (1954-8), did some hack writing
in New York and New Orleans, ending up at Stanford where he rubbed elbows
with Ken Kesey. He was literally and figuratively "on the bus (Furthur)"
with Kesey and Neal Cassady and other ne'er-do-wells. Prime Green refers to
a beach in Mexico which may be a bit like Paradise. The memoir and the
generation climaxes in 1969, the year of Neil Armstrong and Charles Manson
before Stone went to Vietnam as a correspondent..


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Heller remarked latet in his career that at the time he was writing
> Catch--22, Kesey was writing
> Cuckoo's Nest, Pynchon was writing V. , Donleavy, The Ginger Man and
> Vonnegut Catch--22.
> He knew of the work of none of the others; he had never heard that any of
> them knew of each other then.
>
> It was the sensibility turn somehow, he implies.
> The biography author quotes Bruce Jay Friedman about this time. "In
> college, all the courses I took were
> about *what's wrong." *Associatively implying that their work tackled
> that.
>
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