Thursday, July 11, 2013

Early Heller story to be published this month

FILE - This Jan. 26, 1998 file photo shows author Joseph Heller along the Coney Island boardwalk in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Heller's short story, "Almost Like Christmas," will appear next week in Strand Magazine. It is a about the stabbing of a Southern white, the town's thirst for revenge and the black man who has resigned himself to blame. Written in the late 1940s or early '50s, after Heller had returned from World War II, the story has rarely been seen and offers a peak at the early fiction of one of the 20th century's most famous writers. (AP Photo/Todd Plitt, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Before Joseph Heller satirized the madness of war in "Catch-22," he told a serious tale about the tragedy of racism.








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