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Erica Heller

Erica Heller
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Erica Heller

Author Revealed:
Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. "You just take something, and then you do something to it, and then you do something else to it. Keep doing this and pretty soon you've got something." —Jasper Johns
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My life in 8 words: "Apthorpian recluse, curator of the ironic and absurd."
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Yossarian Slept Here
Oct 13, 2011
Yossarian Slept Here will be released on August 23, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Aug 23, 2011
Yossarian Slept Here is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Aug 23, 2011
Yossarian Slept Here will be released on August 23, 2011 in eBook
Aug 23, 2011
Yossarian Slept Here is now available in eBook
Aug 23, 2011
Excerpt:
Introduction from Yossarian Slept Here
Aug 06, 2011
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What is your birthdate?
Jul 09, 2011
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What were your previous occupations?
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What was/is your favorite job?
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What is your motto or maxim?
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What is your favorite movie?
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What is your favorite television show?
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Erica Heller Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. "You just take something, and then you do something to it, and then you do something else to it. Keep doing this and pretty soon you've got something." —Jasper Johns Q. Where did you go to high school and/or college? A. New Lincoln High School, in Harlem, NYC, a year out in the midwest, at Lake Forest College, then NYU. Q. What was/is your favorite job? A. Writing CUSIP numbers for municipal bonds when I was taking time off from college. It gave the word "monotonous" a spectacular new meaning. Q. What is your birthdate? A. 2/1 Q. What is your favorite movie? A. "Sexy Beast." Learn more about Erica Heller

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Redlands Daily Facts, February 4, 2012
...a few. Joseph Heller fans would enjoy "Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller" and his daughter Erica Heller's "Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller was Dad, the Apthorp was Home, and Life was a Catch-22." "Agatha Christie: An Autobiography,"...
X-Media Online, January 23, 2012
...22 is still one of the most beloved novels in English Literature. In celebration of this landmark anniversary, Erica Heller took to the page and followed in the literary foot-steps of her father Yossarian Slept Here is her darkly poignant insight into...
Jewish Chronicle, December 29, 2011
..."What makes you think you're interesting enough to write about?" Madeleine Kingsley on 'Yossarian Slept Here' by Erica Heller [daughter of Joseph Heller] After attending a student film festival where Justin's first short film played, his dad tells him:...
Huffington Post, December 22, 2011
...Book Writing , Books , Yossarian Slept Here , Yossarian Slept Here Book , Culture News share this story Get Culture Alerts Submit this story digg reddit stumble Time stops when you are writing a book, at least when I am. Only one day counts,...
Salon, December 9, 2011
...of writers Joseph Heller and William Styron. Dubbed the “daughterati” by the New York Times, Alexandra Styron and Erica Heller both chronicled difficult, distant relationships with fathers so absorbed in their own careers and personal miseries they...
The Scotsman, December 2, 2011
...in A Daughters’ Tale: A Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill’s Youngest Child (Doubleday, £25), as did Erica Heller in Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller was Dad and Life was a Catch-22 (Vintage, £8.99) and Judy Golding in The Children...
Washington Times, November 25, 2011
...Weber’s "The Memory of All That,” about her grandmother Kay Swift and George Gershwin. Joining them is Erica Heller, novelist and creative consultant, piecing together the puzzle of her father, Joseph Heller, who used his experience of flying...
Chicago Daily Herald, February 25, 2012
...and theyre living on a dirt floor, and its totally a different world. Eye-opening is exactly how 18-year-old Erica Heller of Wheaton describes the Honduras trips. Shes attended twice, but didnt make last months trip. It really just opened my eyes and...
Redlands Daily Facts, February 4, 2012
...a few. Joseph Heller fans would enjoy "Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller" and his daughter Erica Heller's "Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller was Dad, the Apthorp was Home, and Life was a Catch-22." "Agatha Christie: An Autobiography,"...
X-Media Online, January 23, 2012
...22 is still one of the most beloved novels in English Literature. In celebration of this landmark anniversary, Erica Heller took to the page and followed in the literary foot-steps of her father Yossarian Slept Here is her darkly poignant insight into...
A Piece of Monologue: Literature, Philosophy, Crit, October 11, 2011
...Heller, daughter of Joseph Heller, tells The Telegraph about her experience of reading Catch-22 for the first time: 'Erica Heller was nine when her father’s great novel, Catch-22, was published. On its 50th anniversary she describes how it changed her...
Books LIVE, October 11, 2011
...s Press Inc), and Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller was Dad and Life was a Catch-22 by Erica Heller (Vintage). The latter is a sometimes harrowing glimpse of dysfunctional family life – success brought its own problems and Heller, bluntly...
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed, September 29, 2011
...two sentences together. Things are good. Life is beautiful. Zei Gezunt to all, and to all a goodnight. Erica Heller's book, Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home, and Life Was a Catch-22, is out on Simon & Schuster  ...
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed, September 23, 2011
...I prepared for my book reading last week at the Corner Bookstore, on 93rd Street and Madison Avenue, (my first reading, ever), the way I prepare for most new life experiences: I broke out in hives, didn't sleep for a week, misplaced the mascara, was...