Was Heller & V. thread

[Jeff Sunbury]

Correction: When "Catch-18" was published New World Writing owned by New
American Library's Mentor imprint (1951-1960),


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Jeff Sunbury <jsunbury at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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