Banned Books Week 2019
My Reading From Joseph Heller's Catch-22
I was privileged to read a selection from Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, for the University of Idaho's Banned Books week this year. I have had a long relationship with this book over half a century, as I explain in the video. I have written about Catch-22, and also Grapes of Wrath (see also my Reading
from Grapes of Wrath for Banned Books Week
), in a previous Profound Living essay, My
Intimate Relationship With Books
, and also in a piece called The
Irreverent Writer
for the Idaho Writer's Guild.
Needless to say, I believe this to be an important work and that irreverent satire is essential for our times.
Here, I enjoyed reading about Yossarian's (the main character in the book) take on God during war - it's not a pretty one, and also Doc Daneeka's explanation of Catch-22.
