Heller wrote for television under a pseudonym. And always what I wanted to do was write novels.” Heller wrote a total of seven novels and numerous short stories, though none captured the zeitgeist quite like Catch-22. From that time, I’ve been able to work full time at whatever I wanted to do. “Even before publication of Something Happened I knew I would earn a good chunk of money,” he said.
Something Happened provided a measure of financial security. In a 1988 interview with The Buffalo News, Heller also explained that Catch-22 was not the financial windfall it was assumed to be, and that he was holding down teaching positions during the writing of Something Happened that delayed its completion. (Echoing his own life, Heller has his hero, Slocum, coping with the fallout from the death of his father at a young age.) It took 13 years to finish Something Happened, in part because Heller was also busy with a play, We Bombed in New Haven. 1986 This interview with Joe Heller took place during the week of the publication of Something Happened a literary event of considerable significance, because the novel is only the second of the author’s career. It would be a while before he had something else to discuss: the 1974 publication of Something Happened, a novel about a suburban father’s existential crisis. Leonardo Cendamo/GettyImagesĬatch-22 caught on slowly, but in time, both the book and Heller became symbols of some universal truths on the surrealism of war.
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