Episode · SmartLess · 2025-12-01
Noah Hawley on SmartLess: every book mentioned
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Noah Hawley discussed Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Catch-22
Catch-22 is Joseph Heller's famous satirical novel about the absurd bureaucratic paradoxes and psychological toll of military life during World War II.
Discussed“We were reading the book Catch 22, right? And and very specific voice in that book, comedic, satirical, and there was an assignment which is write your own chapter of Catch22, right? And I remember that being the first thing and kind of interesting considering I ended up, you know, write a Cohen brothers movie and write a Ridley Scott”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged A Conspiracy of Tall Men
“oh you know the first novel i published was called a conspiracy of tall men and it was about a professor of conspiracy theories whose wife is killed in a plane crash and he finally gets the conspiracy he's been looking for”