svw (07/30/82)
About the Joseph Heller Disease, which someone described as when the work of an author or some other creative type is the only excellent (or even good) one he creates. This is **NOT** meant to rehash the mistakes the original newsreader made when he wrote in , but...have you ever heard of "Setting Free The Bears"? or "The Water-Method Man"? "The 158-pound Marriage"? Of course not. These are the books John Irving wrote before "The World According to Garp". That newsreader was wrong; "Garp" was not Irving's first. The reason I bring that up is that maybe, when an author writes one famous book, people may assume its his first because they've never heard of him before. This would make the Joseph Heller Disease seem more widespread than it is.