News about Joseph Heller

CRAIG BROWN: Writers tend to be overlooked, though I do have an old book titled Sleeping With Bad Boys and subtitled: 'A juicy tell-all of literary New York in the 1950s and 1960s.' Alice Denham, the author's former Playboy playmate, wrote in more detail about her obsessions with modern American authors such as Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller, and Philip Roth ('a sex fiend). . . I was breathless. . . He hung in long and stale ('). Sadly, Ms Denham never appeared to Britain in the 1950s, so she missed out on tweedy, pipe-smoking nights of ferocious literature with our own admired writers of the day, such as J.B. Priestley or J.R.R.R.R. Tolkien. In the meantime, we can now enjoy The Secret Heart by a former John le Carré's family, Suleika Dawson. The book is described as a 'personal memoir.'

MARTIN SAMUEL - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: Nobody gets blisters from signing too many contracts. Also, wearing Tiffany jewellery is different from wearing Tiffany jewelry. If it's not knock-off stuff on street corners, it's likely that it is that knock-off stuff on street corners. And even then, it's more likely to turn your wrist green than cause lesions. Emma Raducanu is obviously struggling to keep her US Open title, so we should assume she is working hard on retaining her US Open title. It's been a long time. And yet, it is not enough. For those people, it is never enough. Whatever she does, the story stays the same. Emma was lucky, but she has been more concerned about clinching commercial endorsements than working on her game. No matter that the last year would have come out just the same, even if she did nothing but play tennis and practice. No matter that the reason sponsors are demanding her out is that her first attempt in tennis was so impressive that it rendered the bulk of her contemporaries redundant by comparison. So she hasn't lived up to it?Who could?