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Thomas Pynchon’s bootleg noir Shadow Ticket lets sentiment and satire share the same booth
28 Nov 2025 14:34 GMT
At 88, Pynchon returns not with a late-style valediction but with a quickstep. Shadow Ticket is his first novel in 12 years and it refuses the wintry hush many expected. Instead we get a brisk, funny, clear-eyed noir set in 1932 Milwaukee, a city of beer, …
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10 must-read winter fiction book picks to get you through the cold snap
27 Nov 2025 16:23 GMT
… titles from big hitters like Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie and Olivia Laing … : Future)Shadow Ticket (Thomas Pynchon)
No gentle reflections for Thomas Pynchon. His first novel …
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Film Shorts // November 26 – December 2, 2025
26 Nov 2025 17:39 GMT
… story is loosely adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland and set in …
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The week’s bestselling books, Nov. 30
26 Nov 2025 15:28 GMT
… life.
8. Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press: $30) A private …
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On the Big Screen This Week: 2 of the Best New Movies of 2025
26 Nov 2025 00:30 GMT
… was not herself named by Thomas Pynchon) slowly accrues an echo of …
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Life in the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry borderlands, from beatosu to goblu
25 Nov 2025 23:29 GMT
… name straight out of a Thomas Pynchon novel: Bummer Dominique, owner of …
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Book Picks - The Bookstore and Merritt Bookstore
25 Nov 2025 17:41 GMT
… Patti Smith
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
Good Bones: Glorious Relics from …
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15 Best Movie Villains Of The 2020s (So Far)
25 Nov 2025 05:02 GMT
… Thomas Anderson's weird, Thomas Pynchon-inspired confluence of political thriller …
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10 Best R-Rated Movies of 2025
25 Nov 2025 04:42 GMT
… the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, One Battle After Another is …
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Knives Out’s Rian Johnson Offers His List of Difficult Books That Are Actually Worth the Effort
25 Nov 2025 03:05 GMT
… fascinating. I’m a big Thomas Pynchon fan too. I’ve read …