Christopher Buckley in an op-ed piece (“Catch-2009”, an appreciation of Joseph Heller on the 10th anniversary of his death) in the New York Times on December 12: … behind the warm smile, he had a switchblade-sharp mind, and his fraud-detector (what Hemingway called, in somewhat saltier terms, the writer’s most indispensable tool) was as fine-tuned … Continue reading Annals of salty terms