A reluctant plist poster pointed this out to me and thought I might post. Nice find, I say.

[Michel]

Some 3.5 years later: Pynchon wrote back to Donadio on November, 2nd, 
1961 after she had sent him the Catch-22 manuscript. Full text of this 
letter follows:


"You thought I'd LIKE it. Jesus. I love it. I won't tell you how much, 
or why, because I always sound phony whenever I start running off at the 
mouth like a literary critic. But it is close to the finest novel I've 
ever read. Thanks for sending it. MILLE grazie.

ps -- Who is this guy Heller and when is he going to write another one?"


Op 22-7-2016 om 20:37 schreef Mark Kohut:
> "By February 1958, Heller had completed seven handwritten chapters of 
> /Catch-18/ and typed them up into a 259-page manuscript. Donadio sent 
> it to Gottlieb. “I … love this crazy book and very much want to do 
> it,” Gottlieb said. Candida Donadio was delighted by his enthusiasm. 
> Finally, someone got it! “I thought my navel would unscrew and my ass 
> would fall off,” she often said to describe her happiness when 
> negotiations went well with an editor."
>
> Perhaps where that joke in V originated in P's life? "laughing one's 
> ass off"......
>
> http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2011/08/heller-201108

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