Yossarian Slept Here

Joseph Heller's daughter, Erica Heller, offers memories both sweet and tart of her upbringing by her famous father, her parents' tumultuous marriage, and a host of similar domestic vistas. Centering mainly around their tenure at the famed Manhattan residence, the Apthorp, the book invokes a plethora of celebrities with whom Heller amused himself while contriving to amuse his readers with novels like Catch-22 and Something Happened.

June 18: George Orwell's "As One Non-Combatant to Another" was published on this day in 1943. Orwell's poem arguing against pacifism quotes from Churchill's "finest hour" speech, delivered to Parliament and the nation on this day in…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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