2025 seems determined, like Ed the Happy Clown, to foist ever-increasing piles of shit on us. But not everything is terrible. The news that Thomas Pynchon has a new novel (Shadow Ticket) coming out later this year is certainly a ray of light! Yay!

Release date is a few weeks before the October bank holiday. I might book an extra day off work and have a 4-day Pynchon weekend. Read the new book, watch Inherent Vice, teach a duck how to sing show-tunes. That kind of stuff.

https://www.avclub.com/thomas-pynchon-shadow-ticket-publishing