{"product_id":"conversations-with-joseph-heller-joseph-l-heller-9781617036989","title":"Conversations with Joseph Heller","description":"Spanning three decades of his literary career, from Catch-22 to comments on the Persian Gulf War, \u003ci\u003eConversations with Joseph Heller\u003c\/i\u003e contains a selection of the most significant, informative, and interesting interviews with one of America's foremost novelists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these interviews Heller reveals his interest in the structure, effects, and themes of his works, his satirical purposes, the influences upon him, his writing methods, his political opinions, and a host of other topics that challenge and engage his lively and reflective mind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluded here are two interviews not previously published, interviews from student newspapers and university magazines, and two highly comic \"anti-interviews\" with close friends Mel Brooks and George Mandel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere are two largely serious interviews with his friends Robert Alan Arthur and Barbara Gelb. Also in this collection are Heller's conversations with authors Martin Amis and George Plimpton and a probing exchange with Bill Moyers about democracy, politics, and Heller's Picture This. Among the interviews are his talks with Sam Merrill in Playboy, Paul Krassner of The Realist, and with Chet Flippo of Rolling Stone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam J. Sorkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1617036986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781617036989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/29\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d","brand":"Adam J. Sorkin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44321498398975,"sku":"9781617036989","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_baa4dcab-359d-4802-8f96-5b74949927b2.jpg?v=1696331210","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/conversations-with-joseph-heller-joseph-l-heller-9781617036989","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}