Yossarian Survives

Yossarian SurvivesIf my memory is correct, no episodes or characters were deleted when the first typed manuscript of Catch-22 was reduced in the editing from about 800 pages to 600. My memory is not correct. Shortly after the novel was published in late 1961, a friend who had read the original deplored the omission of a series of letters from Nately to his father. Subsequently, those eight or ten pages were published in Playboy under the title Love, Dad (December 1969).I should state that all of...