The new millennium is coming and … novelist Joseph Heller has died. I recently reread Heller’s classic World War II black comedy “Catch-22″, and found it funny and rewarding — a cry against conformist thinking that stands alongside Kafka’s “The Castle” and Orwell’s “1984″ and also seemed very much related to Ken Kesey’s contemporaneous “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”. I’m sure this book will continue to be read by generations to come.

I was also sorry to hear of …