Joseph Heller

OC Bookly: OC Bookstores, Part I--You Should See What It's Like in There

The Bibliofella (see photo, right) never passes up even the least opportunity to invoke his earliest literary heroes, writers whose work helped transform the goofy adolescent I once was into, well, the adult goof I am today, a person for whom the truth-telling of novels, short stories, essays and po ... More >>

Lesser 'Version'

Mordecai Richler gets a downgrade

'Never Be Daunted'

Hes not a stalker, just a smart guy from a small university who makes it a habit to befriend the worlds greatest artists

Subversive Scholarship

Dr. Howard Zinn

Commie Girl

Imagine Me on a Bus!

Stop us if youve heard this one before . . .

Consider the Wallace

Seven things that must be said about David Foster Wallace and his new book of essays

Poor Pitiful Pearl

And the boy who felt me up at the Canyon Inn!

Death Watch

And the boy who felt me up at the Canyon Inn!

Blowback

Stages We Bombed In New Haven

Loud, Rude and Hungry

7 promising plays on local stages

Im the Worlds Wealthiest Fascist!

Reintroducing the Greatest Generation to historical complexity

Big Old Jews

Once upon a time, literary giants bestrode the Earth