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No Laughing MatterAn inspiring, hilarious memoir of a calamitous illness and the rocky road to recuperation from Catch-22 author, Joseph Heller.Read More
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Mail Online UK, November 13, 2011
...mother was not yet 70 when she was diagnosed with lung cancer. Her prognosis was bleak. I called Speed Vogel, one of my parents’ oldest friends. We hadn’t spoken for some time, but he told me how terribly sorry he was about Mum’s illness, and to...
East Hampton Star, November 3, 2011
...siren was the New York literary world. Along the way he hangs out with Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Speed Vogel, James Salter, and Puzo, to name just a few. He writes of Elaine’s restaurant as the Eden for writers. (Yes, I’m mixing plenty of...
The Independent, October 6, 2011
...New York of the period leaps off the page. Heller's cronies included Mel Brooks, Mario Puzo and Speed Vogel, and Erica captures their "food orgies" in Chinatown on Tuesday nights and late night board games. She recalls holidays in Fire Island and New...
STLtoday.com, September 3, 2011
...dining table. Daugherty aptly portrays Heller's friendships with lifelong buddies Mario Puzo, Mel Brooks and the artist Speed Vogel, who were among a men-only weekly dinner group that met for years. There are tantalizing hints of another level in...
Book Reporter, August 12, 2011
...his second wife, and that he described in NO LAUGHING MATTER, a memoir co-written with his close friend, Speed Vogel) whose aftereffects troubled him for the rest of his life. Yet, even while coping with these emotional and physical challenges, Heller...
