Erica Heller's YOSSARIAN SLEPT HERE, a humorous, moving memoir of her childhood and her parents, Shirley and Joseph Heller, set against the backdrop of the Apthorp apartment building where the Heller family has lived for decades, [sold] to Sarah Hochman at Simon & Schuster, by Henry Dunow at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner, for publication in Fall 2011 (the 50th Anniversary of the publication of CATCH-22) (world).You know what this means, right? They were the Ephrons' neighbors! Do you see a heartwarming literary buddy comedy in this? Me either.
But who knows if the Apthorp will still stand after today's epic blizzard of 8 to 13 inches. No city in living memory has ever had to bear so heavy a burden. It's just like in LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, except with convenience stores, and central heat, and high-fructose corn syrup. Well, if we all escape becoming the 21st century's Otzis the Icemen, let's meet up at the Harper's/ Housing Works reading tonight. (Julavits, Whitehead, Lipsyte; 7PM) I'll be the one who doesn't look cold.
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